Nova Peris

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Nova Peris (left) with Quentin Bryce 2012

Nova Peris ( Nova Maree Peris, temporarily Peris-Kneebone ; born February 25, 1971 in Darwin , Northern Territory ) is a former Australian hockey player and sprinter . As a politician , she became the first Native to be elected to the Australian Parliament in the 2013 general election.

Athletic career

hockey

She was part of the Australian national hockey team , which won the 1993 Champions Trophy in Amstelveen, the 1994 World Field Hockey Championships in Dublin, the 1995 Champions Trophy in Mar del Plata and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta; she was the first Aborigine to become an Olympic champion .

athletics

After switching to athletics , she won the Commonwealth Games in 1998 in Kuala Lumpur over 200 m and in the 4-by-100-meter relay and was sixth over 100 m . At the 1999 World Athletics Championships she reached the quarter-finals over 100 m and the semi-finals over 200 m.

At the torch relay of the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney she accepted the Olympic flame after his arrival in Australia. At the Olympic track and field competitions , she reached the semi-finals over 400 m ; in the 4-by-400-meter relay she came in fifth with the Australian team.

Your best times are:

  • 100 m: 11.23 s, August 26, 1998, Darwin
  • 200 m: 22.74 s, 25 August 1999, Seville
  • 400 m: 51.28 s, September 23, 2000, Sydney

Entry into politics

In January 2013, then Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that Peris would join the Labor Party (ALP) at her invitation and run for the Australian Senate in the upcoming Northern Territory elections. The ALP board then voted 19-2 to put Peris at the top of the Labor Electoral List in the Northern Territory. The decision by which Gillard bypassed the usual selection processes in her party was hotly debated. Critics complained that a politically inexperienced celebrity should replace veteran Senator Trish Crossin ; Proponents pointed out that Peris had long been committed to the education and health of the indigenous people and that all indigenous candidates have so far been ignored in the internal ALP procedure.

In the September election , the ALP received 32.7% of the vote in the Northern Territory and continued to provide one of the two senators for that area. In her inaugural speech in the Senate, Peris discussed the fate of the Stolen Generations , to which her grandparents and mother belonged.

In the general election in 2016 it did not happen again.

Private life

In 1995 she married the Australian rules footballer Sean Kneebone, the father of their daughter, who was born in 1990. The couple separated in 2000 and divorced in 2001. In 2002 she married the sprinter Daniel Batman , whom she met at the Sydney Games. The marriage, which was divorced in 2011, had two children; In 2012, Batman died in a car accident.

In 2003 she published her autobiography Nova: My Story. In 2005 she sold her collected mementos from her sporting career to the National Museum of Australia . In August 2012 she married Scott Appleton, who directs the Nova Peris Girls Academy she founded 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

Web links

  • Entry by Nikki Henningham in the Australian Women's Register, March 9, 2007 (last updated September 5, 2012)
  • Nova Peris on the website of the Australian Parliament
  • Nova Peris on the NT Labor website
  • Nova Peris in the database of World Athletics (English)
  • Nova Peris in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
  • Nova Peris in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Oliver Laughland: Nova Peris becomes first Indigenous woman in federal parliament . In: The Guardian . September 7, 2013
  2. ↑ Nova Peris elected as first Indigenous woman in Federal Parliament . In: ABC News . September 8, 2013
  3. ↑ Simon Cullen: Gillard picks Nova Peris to run for Senate . In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation . January 22, 2013
  4. ^ Mark Kenny: Olympian's run for senate endorsed . In: The Age . January 29, 2013
  5. ^ Colleen Ricci: Who is Nova Peris? In: Sydney Morning Herald . 1st February 2013
  6. ^ Parliament of Australia: Senator Peris: First Speech
  7. ↑ Nova Peris sells Olympic memorabilia . In: ABC News . March 5, 2005
  8. ↑ St John's College: Nova Peris Girls Academy ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stjohnsnt.catholic.edu.au
  9. ↑ Mark Kenny: Peris no stranger to challenges . In: Sydney Morning Herald . January 26, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Peris, Nova
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peris, Nova Maree; Peris Kneebone, Nova
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian hockey player, sprinter and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Darwin , Northern Territory