Cheryl Kernot

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

biography

Kernot, who worked as a teacher, began her political career in 1979 when she joined the Australian Democrats (AD), which were only founded in 1977. In a speech to the Australian Federation of University Graduates in Brisbane , she cited the reason for her membership that, from her point of view, the AD was very attractive to women from the start because of its internal party structures, the youth of the party members, and the independence from trade unions , business or agricultural organizations was. In 1986 she was the representative of the AD in an exchange program between young politicians and the USA .

After running for three unsuccessful candidates, she was finally elected a member of the Senate in 1990. In 1993 she played a key role in the historically successful passing of the Native Title Act ( Mabo Legislation ), after having acted in the background as a mediator for the interests of the government, independent representatives of the Senate and the interest groups of the Aborigines .

In May 1993 she finally became chairman of the AD after she was previously elected in a primary election of 81 percent of the members of the AD and soon became the most popular chairman of all Australian political parties. At the same time she was the leader of the AD in the Senate. In 1994 she published a calendar for 1995 in which she herself was Miss April under the heading "Strength and Courage" and wanted to use the calendar to express the hope that success and inspiration are not synonymous with fame and prosperity. She also referred to a quote from Emily Pankhurst :

"Women will only be truly successful if no one is surprised that they are successful."

She was good at dealing with the media , and she managed to get a third double-digit result for the Democrats in the next election in 1996.

Kernot that, a private affair with the former was later known laboratory - Foreign Minister and his time shadow minister Gareth Evans spoke, joined end 1997 independent laboratory, and thus the "Bastards" over. It was speculated that she was promised a ministerial office. She also narrowly managed to win a seat in the House of Representatives for Labor in the Dickson constituency in the October 1998 election. The Labor Party remained in opposition , however, and as a result it was only the shadow minister for education. Kernot lost her seat in the federal parliament again in the next election in November 2001, which ended her political career. In 2002 she resigned from the Labor Party.

After retiring from politics, she was initially program director of a social development program for nursing at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford . She is currently the Director of Education at the Center for Social Impact at the University of New South Wales .

Web links

• Center for Social Impact
• rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview July 21, 2002 ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Profile: Cheryl Kernot- "Keeping the bastards honest" still drives this former politician who now teaches social entrepreneurship
3. ↑ The Official Unofficial Cheryl Kernot Web Site ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.