Cheryl Kernot

Cheryl Kernot (born 5 December 1948 in Maitland, New South Wales) is an Australian politician.

Biography

Kernot, who worked as a teacher, began her political career in 1979 with the accession to the Australian Democrats (AD ), which were established only in 1977. In a speech to the Australian Federation of graduates in Brisbane named her as a reason for their membership that the AD from their perspective from the outset because of internal party structures, the youth of the party members, capture the freedom to trade unions, business or agricultural organizations very attractive to women had. In 1986 she was a representative of the AD in an exchange program of young politicians with the U.S..

After she had been unsuccessful candidate three times, she was elected in 1990 as a member of the Senate. In 1993, she was present instrumental in the historically successful adoption of the Law on Native Title ( Mabo Legislation ), after they had worked in the background as a mediator of the interests of government, independent representatives of the Senate and the advocacy of the Aborigines.

In May 1993, she finally was himself chairman of AD, after they have been chosen in a primary election of 81 percent of the members of the AD and soon became the most popular leaders of all Australian political parties. At the same time she was leader (Leader ) of the AD in the Senate. In 1994 she published a calendar for the year 1995, in which she herself was Miss April in the section " strength and courage " and wanted to express with the calendar the hope that success and inspiration are not synonymous with celebrity and wealth. They also relied on a quote from Emily Pankhurst:

She could deal well with the media and she managed to retract the third double-digit earnings for the Democrats in the next elections in 1996.

Kernot, which became known as later maintained a private affair with the former Labor Secretary and Shadow Minister Gareth Evans of his time, came ultimately to 1997 independent laboratory, and thus the " Bastards ", over. It has been speculated here that she was promised a ministerial post. She succeeded even just to win in the elections in October 1998, a seat in the House of Representatives for the laboratory in the constituency Dickson. However, the Labor Party was in opposition and it merely self shadow minister for education. Kernot lost in the next election in November 2001, back to her seat in the federal parliament, which her ​​political career ended. In 2002 she resigned from the Labor Party.

After leaving politics, she first program director of a social development program for nursing at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Currently she is the Director of Education and teaching at the Centre for Social Impact at the University of New South Wales.