Kathryn Isobel Hay (born 24 November 1975 in
Launceston) is an Australian
Labor
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** Manual labour, physical work
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politician and former member of the
Tasmanian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart.
The Assembly has 25 m ...
in the electorate of
Bass.
She was first elected in the
2002 election.
Hay was the first woman of Aboriginal descent to be elected in Tasmania (in her maiden speech she points out that her Aboriginal ancestors are
Western Australia
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n, not Tasmanian). She was chosen as Miss Tasmania (1999) and
Miss Australia
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(1999).
Hay did not re-contest her seat at the
2006 election. Her term ended when parliament was dissolved on 17 March 2006.
In February 2009, Hay announced she would stand for the Legislative Council division of
Windermere
Windermere (sometimes tautologically called Windermere Lake to distinguish it from the nearby town of Windermere) is the largest natural lake in England. More than 11 miles (18 km) in length, and almost 1 mile (1.5 km) at its wides ...
,
Kathryn Hay to run for Windermere seat
''ABC News'', 1 February 2009 but was defeated by the incumbent, Ivan Dean, at the May 2009 election.
References
External links
Kathryn Hay's maiden speech to parliament
1975 births
Living people
Indigenous Australian politicians
Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
Australian beauty pageant winners
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania
Women members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
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