Linda Kirk

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Linda Jean Kirk (born 24 May 1967) is an Australian politician. Kirk was elected to the Australian Senate for South Australia in July 2001, representing the Australian Labor Party. She began her term on July 1, 2002.

She studied at the University of Adelaide and graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Law and a Degree in Economics. She went on to study a Master of Laws at the University of Cambridge. Kirk returned to Adelaide and become a corporate lawyer and she was elected as a Councillor on the Adelaide City Council from 1998 to 2000. She was a republican delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention in 1998.

Kirk is the convenor of the South Australian Fabian Society and is completing a doctoral thesis on constitutional law for the Australian National University.

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