Thi Viet Huong Truong is an Australian politician. She was a Greens member of the

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, having represented

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from February 2018, when she was appointed to the vacancy resulting from

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's resignation, until her defeat at the

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. Her parents came from

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as refugees by boat following the

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. She graduated from the

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with a Bachelor of Arts in 2005, and from

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with a Master of Social Science in Environment and Planning in 2009. She had previously worked as the Sustainability Coordinator at

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City Council from 2008 to 2018. She served on the Victorian Parliamentary Environment and Planning Committee.

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