Michaelia Clare Cash (born 19 July 1970) is an Australian politician who served as the 38th Attorney-General of Australia from 2021 to 2022 in the Morrison government.

Her father, the owner of a construction company, was elected to state parliament in 1984 and served as President of the Western Australian Legislative Council.

[5] Cash graduated from Curtin University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts with a triple major in public relations, politics, and journalism.

She was a long-time member of the Liberal Party of Western Australia's State Council and was the President of the Moore Division.

[citation needed] Prior to her political career, Cash was a solicitor with the law firm Freehills where she worked from 1999 to 2008.

[18] Cash has been criticised for refusing to release a report into an 18-year-old who died while on a Work for the Dole assignment in April 2016.

[19] Cash offered her resignation from the frontbench on 22 August 2018, during the events of the Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, 2018.

Cash was then appointed the Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education in the First Morrison Ministry.

In the Second Morrison Ministry, Cash was appointed the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business in May 2019.

[21][22] On 29 March 2021, it was announced that Cash would be appointed as Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations in a cabinet reshuffle replacing Christian Porter, following advice from the solicitor-general that Porter could not remain Attorney General while taking legal action against the ABC and their reporting on allegations of historic sexual assault.

Having employed Ms Higgins’ after she left Linda Reynolds’ office, Cash has been accused of aiding the coverup, following allegations she was aware of incident and may have mistreated the young staffer.