Lara Giddings

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Lara Giddings

Larissa Tahireh "Lara" Giddings (born November 14, 1972 in Goroka , Papua New Guinea ) is an Australian lawyer and politician and a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She was the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Tasmania from January 24, 2011 to March 31, 2014 .

Life

In 1986 Giddings moved to Tasmania with her family. After studying at the University of Tasmania , from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws , Giddings worked as a Whip in the Australian Senate. She later traveled to the United Kingdom , where she worked for the Scottish MP Helen Eadie after a brief period in government administration . After returning to Tasmania in 2002, she acted as speechwriter and media advisor to the then Prime Minister.

From 2004 to 2006 Giddings was Minister for Economic Development and the Arts. After the parliamentary elections in 2006 she received the Ministry of Health. In 2008 she became the second woman to be appointed Deputy Prime Minister.

On January 23, 2011, then Prime Minister David Bartlett announced his resignation and at the same time expressed his support for Giddings. A day later, the Labor Party elected her as the new Prime Minister. She was the first woman in the office of the Tasmanian Prime Minister and held this office when Will Hodgman of the Liberal Party of Australia succeeded her on March 31, 2014.

In the previous parliamentary election on March 15, 2014, Hodgman's Liberal Party received 167,051 votes (51.22 percent) and was thus able to improve its result by 12.23 percentage points. By gaining five seats, the Liberals have an absolute majority with 15 of the 25 seats in the House of Assembly. The Labor Party of the previous Prime Minister Giddings only won 89,130 ​​votes (27.33 percent) and lost three of its ten seats. The electoral loser was also the previous coalition partner Tasmanian Greens , which also lost two of its five mandates, whereupon Nick McKim , previously Minister for Correction, Consumer Protection, Sustainable Transport, Education and Skills in the Giddings cabinet, resigned as leader of the Greens and was replaced by Kim Booth .

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SURNAME Giddings, Lara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giddings, Tahireh Larissa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Goroka , Papua New Guinea