Marion Scrymgour

Marion Rose Scrymgour (* 1960, Darwin) is an Australian politician, the Australian Labor Party. She was the first minister and the first temporary prime minister, descended from the aborigines.

Life

Her mother was an Aborigine from the Tiwi Islands; her father was spent as a child because of the Australian assimilation policy, which went down with the term Stolen Generation in the history of the central Australia there. Scrymgour attended school in Darwin and ended her school career with the HSC, which roughly corresponds to the German Abitur. She decided against further training and worked in various official offices as employees. Marion Scrymgour continued his education in courses via correspondence, accounting, administration and healthcare. She worked at the Wurli Wurlinjang Aboriginal Corporation in the leading position, coordinated various social programs in the area of Katherine in the Northern Territory and was director of the Katherine West Health Board Aboriginal Corporation. She was also an active member of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union and represented the union at a national conference of the Australian Labor Party.

Marion Scrymgour is married to David Dalrymple and has three children.

Policy

Scrymgour is a member of the Australian Labor Party and came into politics after its election victory in the Northern Territory in 2001, when she won this election against her rival from the Country Liberal Party. She was the first Aboriginal who won an election in this way. Since August 2001, she represents in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly constituency Arafura, which extends over the Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands.

Two years later, on 17 December 2003, it was the successor of Jane Aagaard in the reshuffle of the government as Minister of Health. They also took over the responsibilities of family and social welfare, environmental, cultural and historic preservation. So she was the first Australian Aboriginal woman who held a ministerial post in a government cabinet.

As a minister, she led the Substance Abuse Select Committee, which investigated the causes of the harmful glue sniffing and violence in Aboriginal communities. After the election in 2005 was appointed to the Minister for the environment, arts and culture. After Regierungsumbesetzung on August 13, 2007, she was responsible for art and museums, was to ensure the task for family and community protection, and also she was Minister for Child Protection. She planned to revise and install a supranational cultural body that should be for the protection of important cultural places and locations that already exist in several states that have established laws for the protection of cultural heritage.

She was elected as Deputy Chief Minister of the Northern Territory ( Deputy Prime Minister ) in November 2007, when the previous Minister Syd Stirling abdicated. Scrymgour held it one of the highest ranking government offices of any state in Australia's history.

In January 2008 she was appointed as the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (Prime Minister) for two weeks while the incumbent Prime Minister Paul Henderson was on vacation; thus it was the first Aborigine, who held the highest political office at the level of Australian states.

On 9 February 2009 Scrymgour resigned for health reasons from all ministerial posts.

On June 1, 2009 Scrymgour announced that they support the development of Aboriginal people in 20 large communities and involvement in so-called " homeland " and " outstation " not intensified. She said that she needs to do this because of their physical condition and that she feels strong because we have lied to the Aborigines. On June 4, after a strong speculation in the media, she stepped out of the laboratory of party and they reduced thus to a minority government.