Lauren Kathage is an Australian politician who is the current member for the district of Yan Yean in the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding ...

. She is a member of the Labor Party and was elected in the 2022 state election, after replacing retiring MLA

Danielle Green Danielle Louise Green (born 19 September 1963) is a former Australian politician, who served as the member for Yan Yean in the Victorian Legislative Assembly until 2022. She represented the Labor Party Before entering Parliament, she had comp ...

. Kathage was born in

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and grew up in

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

. She then worked in the

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before moving to

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with her husband. Kathage spent 15 years as a community worker in

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and Internationally, leading housing and homelessness projects. Before her election to

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, Kathage managed multimillion dollar programs to train healthcare workers, improve income generation opportunities for regional communities and to boost the school attendance rates of children with disabilities.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 21st-century Australian politicians 21st-century Australian women politicians Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Women members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly {{DEFAULTSORT:Kathage, Lauren