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Revision as of 08:41, 5 October 2013
Janet Powell | |
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| Senator for Victoria | |
| In office 26 August 1986 – 30 June 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Don Chipp |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 September 1942 Nhill, Victoria |
| Died | 30 September 2013 (aged 71) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Democrats (1986–92) Independent (1992–93) |
| Occupation | Schoolteacher |
Janet Frances Powell AM (29 September 1942 – 30 September 2013[1]) was an Australian politician.
A native of Nhill, Victoria, Powell was educated at Ballarat Grammar School and Nhill High School. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education. She then worked as a secondary school teacher at Kerang High School and Nhill High School.[2]
She was active in the Australian Democrats in the early 1980s, serving as the party's Victorian state president and senior vice president. In 1986, she was appointed a Democrat senator for Victoria, upon the resignation of the party's founder, Don Chipp. She was elected the following year. She became the third leader of the party, from 1 July 1990 to 19 August 1991. Fellow senator Sid Spindler's relationship with her was used as leverage to remove her from the leadership at a time when she was controversially negotiating a coalition or merger with the Greens.[3] After internal disagreements related to her loss of the leadership, she resigned from the party in 1992 and continued as an independent senator until her defeat at the 1993 election.
In 1996, she campaigned for Greens leader Bob Brown and, in 2004, she joined the Australian Greens, citing that they were more capable of achieving the function of a third force in Australian politics. In the 2006 Victorian state election she unsuccessfully stood for the Greens in the Eastern Metropolitan Region.
Janet Powell was a member of the Patrons Council of the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria and a Life Member of YWCA Victoria, and also an inaugural appointee to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2000 "for services to the community".
In the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours list, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, in recognition of her service to the Parliament and people of Australia, including through leadership of, and support for, YWCA Victoria.
References
- ^ Ireland, Judith (1 October 2013). "Former Democrats leader Janet Powell dies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- ^ Who's Who in Australia 2013, Crown Content, 2012.
- ^ "A cautionary tale of hypocrisy and ambition". The Age. 5 July 2002. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
External links
- Janet Powell, Senate Biography
- Janet Powell, Greens candidate for Eastern Metropolitan Region
- Notice of party deregistration
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