A redistribution made the once vast rural seat slightly more compact, adding some conservative-leaning territory on Darwin's outer fringe.
Purick defeated Warren on a swing of over seven percent, enough to revert Goyder to its traditional status as a safe CLP seat.
[2] She served as shadow minister for Major Projects, Trade and Economic Development, Planning and Lands, Housing, Statehood and Women's Policy in the Territory opposition from 2008 to 2012.
The parliamentary wing of the party overrode Mills' preference; Robyn Lambley was elected as deputy leader, and Purick was left out of cabinet.
When the federal Minister for Social Services Kevin Andrews, suggested de facto couples don't stay together as long as married couples, Purick took to Facebook to denounce him as a "pooncy, pasty faced person from some pissant place that no one cares about," and pointed out most of her constituents are in de facto relationships.
"[7] On 17 November 2015, Attorney-General John Elferink moved a motion to suspend standing orders to debate removing Purick from the Speaker's role, citing what he claimed were partial comments she had posted on Facebook regarding government-funded advertising about anti-ice legislation.
On the morning of 18 November, the CLP and independent Larisa Lee passed Elferink's motion to spill the speakership role.
On the 15th February 2024 she has announced she will not be recontesting her seat the next election Purick is one of six children and the daughter of former politician Noel Padgham, who was a member of the assembly from 1977 to 1997.