Nova Peris
Nova Peris ( Nova Maree Peris, Peris - Kneebone temporarily; born February 25, 1971 in Darwin, Northern Territory ) is a former Australian hockey player and sprinter. As a politician, she became the first Ureinwohnerin who was elected to the Australian Parliament in the parliamentary election in 2013.
Sports career
Hockey
She belonged to the Australian national hockey team, which won in 1995 in the Champions Trophy in 1993 in Amstelveen, at the Field Hockey World Cup 1994 in Dublin, at the Champions Trophy in Mar del Plata and during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta; she became the first Aborigine who was Olympic champion.
Athletics
After her move to athletics she won at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur than 200 meters and the 4 x 100 - meter relay and finished sixth over 100 m. At the World Athletics Championships in 1999, it reached more than 100 m the quarter and more than 200 m the semi-finals.
At the torch relay of the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, she took the Olympic flame counter after his arrival in Australia. At the Olympic athletics competitions it reached about 400 meters semi-finals; in the 4 x 400 - meter relay, she came with the Australian team to fifth place.
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Entry into politics
In January 2013, the then Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that Peris will come in on their invitation, in the Labor Party (ALP ) and stand in the forthcoming elections in the Northern Territory for the Australian Senate. The ALP 's board voted in with 19:2 for putting Peris at the top of the Laboratory Evaluation in the Northern Territory. The decision dealt with the Gillard the usual selection process in their party was hotly debated. Critics complained that a politically inexperienced celebrities should replace the long-serving Senator Trish Crossin; Proponents noted that Peris have long been used for the education and the health of indigenous people involved and that so far all the native candidates were passed over the ALP internal procedure.
In the election in September, the ALP received 32.7 % of votes in the Northern Territory and continued to provide one of the two senators for this area. In her inaugural speech in the Senate Peris touched on the fate of the stolen generations, which belonged to her grandparents and her mother.
Private life
In 1995, she married the Australian Rules Footballer Sean Kneebone, the father of her daughter born in 1990. 2000, the couple separated in 2001 the couple divorced. In 2002 she married the sprinter Daniel Batman, whom she had met at the Games in Sydney. From the 2011 divorced two children were born; 2012 Batman died in a car accident.
In 2003, she published her autobiography Nova: My Story. In 2005 she sold her collected souvenirs from her athletic career at the National Museum of Australia. In August 2012, she married Scott Appleton, which she founded, Nova Peris Girls Academy conducts at St John's Catholic College Darwin.
Honors
Publications
- With Ian Heads: Nova: My story. The autobiography of Nova Peris. ABC Books, 2003, ISBN 0733311660