Mary Lindsay Caroline Willey (6 May 1941 – 14 February 2022) was an Australian politician.

Biography

She was born in

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, but later moved to

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. At the 1979 state election, she was elected to the

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as a

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member for Bass. She resigned from the Labor Party in 1981 in protest at the treatment of deposed

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Doug Lowe. She contested the 1982 state election as an

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but was defeated. Willey died on 14 February 2022, at the age of 80.RIP Mary Willey
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References

1941 births 2022 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania Women members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Politicians from Sydney {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub