Marion Scrymgour

Marion Rose Scrymgour (* 1960 , Darwin ) is an Australian politician with the Australian Labor Party . She was the first female minister and the first temporary prime minister to be of Aboriginal descent.

Life

Her mother was an Aboriginal from the Tiwi Islands ; her father was brought there as a child because of the Australian policy of assimilation, which went down in history with the term stolen generation , from central Australia. Scrymgour attended school in Darwin and finished 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 an employee. Marion Scrymgour trained in correspondence, accounting, administration and health care courses. She worked in leadership positions at Wurli Wurlinjang Aboriginal Corporation , coordinated various social programs in the Katherine area in the Northern Territory and became 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 for the Australian Labor Party.

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

politics

Scrymgour is a member of the Australian Labor Party and entered politics after her victory in the Northern Territory in 2001 when she won that election against her rival from the Country Liberal Party . She was the first Aboriginal woman to win an election that way. Since August 2001 she has represented the constituency of Arafura in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly , which stretches across Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands.

Two years later, on December 17, 2003, she succeeded Jane Aagaard as Minister of Health when the government was reshuffled . She also took on the tasks of family and social welfare, environment, cultural and monument preservation. She was the first Australian Aboriginal woman to hold a ministerial post in a government cabinet.

As minister, she led the Substance Abuse Select Committee , which investigated the causes of harmful glue sniffing and violence in Aboriginal communities. After the election in 2005, she was appointed Minister for Environment, Art and Culture. After the government reshuffle on August 13, 2007, she became responsible for art and museums, was given the task of ensuring family and community protection, and she also became Minister for Child Protection. She planned to revise the laws for the protection of cultural heritage and to install a supranational cultural body, which should be set up to protect important cultural places and places that already exist in different states.

She was elected Deputy Chief Minister of the Northern Territory in November 2007 when the previous Minister, Syd Stirling, abdicated. Scrymgour held one of the highest-ranking government offices of a state in the history of Australia.

In January 2008 she was appointed Chief Minister of the Northern Territory for two weeks while incumbent Prime Minister Paul Henderson was on vacation; thus she was the first Aborigine to hold the highest political office at the level of the Australian states.

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

On June 1st, 2009 Scrymgour announced that they are promoting the development of the Aborigines in 20 large communities and not intensifying their involvement in so-called "homeland" and "outstation". She said that she has to do this because of her physical condition and that she feels strong because we lied to the Aborigines. On June 4th, after much speculation in the media, she resigned from the Labor Party, reducing it to a minority government .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marion Scrymgour - Member for Arafura ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Australian Labor Party, Official biography: Retrieved December 26, 2007 
2. ↑ Northern Territory Government: Ministerial Reshuffle ( Memento of the original dated August 31, 2007 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. 
3. ↑ Hawker Britton Occasional Papers ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 2007 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. , Hawker Britton, accessed January 2004 
4. ↑ New Heritage Laws to Benefit All Territorians ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2008 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. (PDF file; 105 kB) Media release, Scrymgour, Marion (2005): accessed on May 11, 2005 
5. ^ NT deputy Scrymgour makes history Australian Associated Press: The Age, accessed November 26, 2007
6. ^ Tiwi Islander makes political history news.com.au Nigel Adlam (2008), accessed January 7, 2008
7. ↑ Indigenous politician Scrymgour stands down abc.net.au, ABC News (2009): accessed February 9, 2009
8. ↑ Scrymgour outraged at new outstation policy . In: ABC Online . Retrieved June 1, 2009. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 
9. ^ NT Government in tower oil as MP quits . In: ABC Online . Retrieved June 4, 2009. Retrieved June 4, 2009.