Tania Verene Rattray (born 28 March 1958) is an independent member of the
Tasmanian Legislative Council
The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, ...
(upper house) in the
division of McIntyre.
Rattray was educated at
Winnaleah Area School and
Scottsdale High School. Before becoming a full-time politician, she was an owner/operator of the Winnaleah Four Square Supermarket from 1988–1994. She was also a Senior Pharmacy Assistant at Galloways Pharmacy in
Scottsdale from 1994–2004.
She was elected to
Dorset Council in 1996, becoming deputy mayor in 2002. She stood for election in the
Apsley division on 1 May 2004 when her father
Colin Rattray
Colin Lewis Rattray (28 December 1931 – 19 February 2009) was an Australian politician. He was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1992 to 2004, representing first South Esk and then Apsley.
Rattray was born in ...
retired.
She narrowly led on primary votes and was elected after the distribution of preferences.
Rattray was re-elected unopposed in 2010
Rattray-Wagner re-elected unopposed
''ABC News'' and was also re-elected in 2016.
References
See also
* Members of the Legislative Council
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1958 births
Living people
Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania
Tasmanian local councillors
20th-century Australian politicians
21st-century Australian politicians
Women members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
21st-century Australian women politicians