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Labor
Joined Australian Labor Party
1976
Member
Australian Labor Party
1986-1996 |
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8 February 1986 |
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Canning |
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Electorates
- MLA Canning 8 February 1986–4 February 1989 (electorate abolished in redistribution); Kenwick 4 February 1989–14 December 1996 (electorate abolished in redistribution)
- Contested Southern River 14 December 1996
Office
- Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs, and Assisting the Minister for Women’s Interests 5 February 1991–27 February 1991
- Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs, Seniors and Women’s Interests (assisted the Minister until 7 September 1992) 27 February 1991–16 February 1993
- Shadow Minister for Disability Services, Consumer Affairs (until 7 February 1994), Women’s Interests, and Housing (from 7 February 1994) 17 February 1993–18 October 1994; for Women’s Interests, Disability Services, Children’s Policy, and Seniors 18 October 1994–15 January 1997
Committees
- Member, Public Accounts and Expenditure Review Committee from June 1986 to 18 May 1988
- Member, Joint House Committee from March 1989 to 19 March 1991
- Chair, Select Committee on Reproductive Technology Working Party’s Report from 15 November 1987 to 15 December 1988; and on National HIV/AIDS Strategy White Paper from 28 September 1989 to 28 June 1990
- Member, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association delegation to Zimbabwe from February to March 1990
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 Watson, Judyth, Inaugural Speech, 1986.pdf |
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Personal Information |
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8 March 1940 |
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Burton-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom |
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9 July 2023 |
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Palmyra, Western Australia |
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Collected at Fremantle Cemetery |
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 Watson, Judyth, Condolence Motion, Assembly, 2023.pdf |
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Arrived WA 17 January 1949 |
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Daughter of Cecil Watson, railway train controller and clerk, and Hylda Rowland, shop assistant |
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Unmarried |
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Not stated |
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Educated State Schools, Perth Modern School, 1953–1955
Trained for nursing, Royal Perth Hospital, 1957–1960
King George VI Hospital, 1961–1962 (for mid-wife registration)
College of Nursing, Australia (for hospital nursing and ward administration)
University of Edinburgh—Certificate in Nursing Education, 1971–1973
University of Western Australia—BSc (major in Anthropology) 1976, Hons (first class), 1977, PhD 1982
Won faculty prize for Anthropology, 1976
Received Commonwealth Post-Graduate Research Award, 1978–1981
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Nurse, university tutor and ministerial adviser |
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Nursing assistant, St Anne’s Hospital until old enough to commence training
Various clinical nursing positions, WA and UK
Nurse teacher, Royal Perth Hospital School of Nursing, 1973–1974, on return from Scotland
Nurse teacher, Community Health Services and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital to 1977
Convenor, Health Care Consumers Association, 1977
PhD student and part-time tutor, Department of Anthropology, University of Western Australia, 1978–1981
Health and safety research officer, Hospital Service and Miscellaneous Workers’ Union, 1982–1983
Adviser to Minister for Industrial Relations on Occupational Health and Safety Policy and Legislation, 1983–1985
After leaving Parliament, three contracts with Hepatitis Council
Retired from paid work, April 2008 |
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Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) awarded in the Queen's Birthday 2019 Honours List, 10 June 2019, for service to the community of Western Australia, and to social justice |
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Co-founder, Member Review Committee Legal Aid Commission, 1982–1983
Represented WA on Interim National Health and Safety Commission 1983 and non-statutory committee, 1984–1985
Member, Research Standing Committee on National Occupational and Health Safety Commission from 1985
Member, advisory committees in Occupational Health and Safety and Health Sciences at Curtin University
Justice of the Peace
Head, Council of Official Visitors under Mental Health Act until April 2008
Presented papers at conferences and contributed numerous articles in union, company and health professional publications with occasional lectures at all tertiary institutions in WA
Member, family planning and agencies dealing with violence against women, active in numerous organisations to assist refugees
Volunteer with refugees as board member of various organisations
Co-founder and former board member, The Humanitarian Group (formerly CASE for Refugees), 2002
Board member, Refugee Council of Australia, 2009–2013
Former board member, Centre for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees
Member, People's Panel, Western Australian Museum, current
Chair, Department of Health Human Research Ethics Committee
Volunteer, literacy and numeracy at local primary school |
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Black, D and Bolton, G eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 272.
Department of the Premier and Cabinet. It's an Honour. (2019, June 10). Retrieved from https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2004737
Making a Difference, p. 144–149.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website.https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=a4799e42-1228-ee11-9966-000d3a79851f Accessed 26 July 2023. |
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