Ingrid Stitt (born 1965/1966) is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the

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since 2018, representing

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. She is a former union leader who won preselection over

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in November 2017. In September 2020, Stitt was appointed Minister for Workplace Safety and Minister for Early Childhood in the Second Andrews Ministry.

Early life

Stitt was born in the

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and is the daughter of artists Peter and Daphne Stitt. In 1974, when Ingrid was 8, the Stitts moved to Australia when Peter took up a lecturing job at the

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of the Arts in

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