Thi Viet Huong Truong is an Australian politician. She was a
Greens member of the
Victorian Legislative Council
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, having represented
Western Metropolitan Region
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from February 2018, when she was appointed to the vacancy resulting from
Colleen Hartland
Colleen Mildred Hartland (born 1 February 1959) is a former Australian politician, and a Greens member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2006 to 2018.
Early career
Hartland is a Western Suburbs resident and activist who rose to promin ...
's resignation, until her defeat at the
2018 Victorian state election
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.
Her parents came from
Vietnam
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as
refugees by boat following the
Vietnam War
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. She graduated from the
University of Melbourne
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with a Bachelor of Arts in 2005, and from
RMIT
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Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering classes in art, scienc ...
with a Master of Social Science in Environment and Planning in 2009. She had previously worked as the Sustainability Coordinator at
Brimbank
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The City has ...
City Council from 2008 to 2018. She served on the Victorian Parliamentary Environment and Planning Committee.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian Greens members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Council
21st-century Australian politicians
Women members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Victoria (Australia) local councillors
Australian politicians of Vietnamese descent
Women local councillors in Australia
21st-century Australian women politicians
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