Sarah Hanson-Young

Sarah Hanson-Young
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Sarah Hanson-Young

Senator for South Australia
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2008

Born	23 December 1981 (1981-12-23) (age 26) Melbourne, Victoria¹
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Australian Greens
Website	SarahInTheSenate.com

Sarah Coral Hanson-Young (born 23 December 1981) is an Australian politician. She has been a Greens member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of South Australia.

At the 2007 federal election, she became South Australia's first Greens Senator, and the youngest person ever elected to the Senate,² and the youngest woman ever elected to Australian Parliament.³ Although the SA Green primary vote was relatively unchanged, preferences from the Australian Labor Party got the required quota needed.⁴ She was previously a candidate for the Legislative Council in the 2006 South Australian election.

Hanson-Young was born in Melbourne, and grew up near Orbost in East Gippsland. As a young, student-activist politician, and president of the Students' Association of the University of Adelaide, comparisons have been drawn between her and retiring Australian Democrats senator Natasha Stott Despoja.⁵

Hanson-Young has been active in community groups and NGOs on environmental, human rights, women's and youth related issues, primarily through Amnesty International. She worked on several community projects in Orbost including the establishment of the Orbost Youth Centre.^{citation needed} In 1999 she was awarded "Australia Day Young Citizen of the Year" for Gippsland, Victoria. She was the Environment Officer of the Students' Association of the University of Adelaide in 2001 and in 2002 was elected its President.

Formerly a board member of Unibooks and Justice for Refugees (SA),⁶ Hanson-Young has also mentored young people through The Smith Family Tertiary Mentor Program.⁷

Hanson-Young is also a student, partway through a postgraduate law degree and holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the University of Adelaide. She has worked as the Community Campaigner for Amnesty International SA/NT, and has worked as a Greens media advisor.⁸

Her husband, Zane Young,⁹ has served on the City of Mitcham council since November 2006.¹⁰ He was a Greens candidate for Waite in the 2006 South Australian election, and Sturt in the 2004 federal election.¹¹

References

^ "Senator Sarah Hanson-Young Parliamentary Biography". Commonwealth of Australia (2008-07-02). Retrieved on 2008-09-01.
^ Rob Lundie & Martin Lumb "Research Note 13 1998-99 Update on Selected Australian Political Records" (Parliament of Australia). Access date: November 25, 2007.
^ "Greens a new 'third force'". The Advertiser (November 26, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
^ "Senate Results: South Australia - Federal Election 2007". ABC Elections. Retrieved on 2008-01-05. Cathy Perry (ALP) is excluded at count 23, giving 71,615 votes to Sarah Hanson-Young, who achieves quota.
^ "Greens pin Senate hopes on 'new Natasha'". The Australian (October 26, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-02-19.
^ New refugee bill opposed, "The Guardian", Communist Party of Australia
^ Smith Family Tertiary Mentor Program "Adelaide Green School Presenters and Workshops: 'Positioning the Greens' Workshop Presenters". The Green Institute (May, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-02-19.
^ Natasha ‘my Senate hero’, Border Mail, 28 Oct 2006
^ GreensSA website
^ "City of Mitcham".
^ ABC Waite electorate profile

External links

Sarah Hanson-Young website
Parliamentary biography
SA Greens website
Greens unveil their 'Natasha', Advertiser Adelaide, 25 Oct 2006
Greens pin Senate hopes on 'new Natasha', The Australian, 26 Oct 2006
Introductory interview on Triple J's Hack programme 18th August 2008 (audio mp3 format)

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Current members of the Australian Senate

Mark Arbib (ALP) • Doug Cameron (ALP) • Helen Coonan (Lib) • John Faulkner (ALP) • Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (Lib) • Michael Forshaw (ALP) • Bill Heffernan (Lib) • Steve Hutchins (ALP) • Fiona Nash (Nat) • Marise Payne (Lib) • Ursula Stephens (ALP) • John Williams (Nat)

Kim Carr (ALP) • Jacinta Collins (ALP) • Stephen Conroy (ALP) • David Feeney (ALP) • Steve Fielding (FFP) • Mitch Fifield (Lib) • Helen Kroger (Lib) • Gavin Marshall (ALP) • Julian McGauran (Lib) • Michael Ronaldson (Lib) • Scott Ryan (Lib) • Judith Troeth (Lib)

Ron Boswell (Nat) • Sue Boyce (Lib) • George Brandis (Lib) • Mark Furner (ALP) • John Hogg (ALP) • Barnaby Joyce (Nat) • Joe Ludwig (ALP) • Ian Macdonald (Lib) • Jan McLucas (ALP) • Brett Mason (Lib) • Claire Moore (ALP) • Russell Trood (Lib)

Judith Adams (Lib) • Mark Bishop (ALP) • Michaelia Cash (Lib) • Mathias Cormann (Lib) • Alan Eggleston (Lib) • Chris Ellison (Lib) • Chris Evans (ALP) • David Johnston (Lib) • Scott Ludlam (Grn) • Louise Pratt (ALP) • Rachel Siewert (Grn) • Glenn Sterle (ALP)

Cory Bernardi (Lib) • Simon Birmingham (Lib) • Don Farrell (ALP) • Alan Ferguson (Lib) • Mary Jo Fisher (Lib) • Sarah Hanson-Young (Grn) • Annette Hurley (ALP) • Anne McEwen (ALP) • Nick Minchin (Lib) • Penny Wong (ALP) • Dana Wortley (ALP) • Nick Xenophon (Ind)

Eric Abetz (Lib) • Guy Barnett (Lib) • Catryna Bilyk (ALP) • Bob Brown (Grn) • Carol Brown (ALP) • David Bushby (Lib) • Richard Colbeck (Lib) • Christine Milne (Grn) • Kerry O'Brien (ALP) • Stephen Parry (Lib) • Helen Polley (ALP) • Nick Sherry (ALP)

ACT	Gary Humphries (Lib) • Kate Lundy (ALP)

NT	Trish Crossin (ALP) • Nigel Scullion (CLP)

Labor (ALP) • Family First (FFP) • Greens (Grn) • Liberal (Lib) • Country Liberal (CLP) • National (Nat)

Persondata
NAME	Hanson-Young, Sarah Coral
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	23 December 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH	Melbourne, Victoria
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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