Parliamentary Service |
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Labor
Joined Australia Labor Party 1993
Membership officer
1995–2000 |
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10 February 2001 |
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Kimberley |
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Electorates
- MLA Kimberley from 10 February 2001–9 March 2013. Elected to the thirty-sixth Parliament for Kimberley on 10 February 2001 in succession to Hon Ernest Francis Bridge (retired). Re-elected 2005, 2008. Did not contest the general election of 9 March 2013.
Committees
- Chairman, Standing Committee on Education and Health, 30 May 2001–23 January 2005
- Member, Parliamentary Services Committee, 30 May 2001–23 January 2005, and from 13 November 2008 to 30 January 2013
Historical Notes
- First indigenous woman member of an Australian Parliament
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 Martin, Carol Anne, valedictory speech.pdf |
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Search for speeches by Carol Martin |
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Personal Information |
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31 October 1957 |
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Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Daughter of Bernard Joseph Pilkington, machine operator, and Rosemary Ogilvie |
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Married (1) 3 September 1975, Broome, WA to Paul William Rixon
Divorced 1980
Married (2) 21 April 1984, Heytesbury Road, Derby, WA to Brian Leslie Martin, son of Walter Martin and Margaret Dorothy Davis
Children: one son and one daughter |
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Christian |
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Educated Victoria Park (1963), Highgate (1964), and Carlisle (1967) Primary Schools and Kewdale High School 1970
Curtin University of Technology—BA (Soc Wk) 1993
Pundulmurra Vocational Training Centre, Port Hedland—Dip in Office and Small Bus Mngt 1981, joint dux
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Trainer, counsellor and consultant |
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After 1993 worked with several organisations and projects in the Kimberley as counsellor, consultant and trainer
Active artist, some works on display at Curtin University Centre for Aboriginal Studies Board Room |
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Member, Derby Shire Council, 1993–1995 |
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Awarded Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), 12 June 2023 for service to the Parliament of Western Australia, and to the Indigenous community |
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Removed from family in 1969–1970 and placed in foster homes until 1973
Followed mother to Broome in 1973 and remained there until 1976, settled in Derby 1982
Member, Advisory Board for Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University from 1985
Member, National Association for Loss and Grief in WA
Member, Industry Training Board
Member, Support Group for Young Women’s Health Wise |
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Australian Honours Search Facility, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australian Government. Accessed 13 June 2023. https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2014208
D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 175.
Parliament of Western Australia website. Former Members. Accessed 19 May 2014. |
| Bibliography |
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 Chapter 45. Carol Anne Martin Making a Difference.pdf |