Kerrie Tucker

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Ms Kerrie Tucker was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from 1995 until 2004. She has been an active member of the Australian Greens, and was elected on a Greens platform.

In 2004 she resigned from the Legislative Assembly to contest one of the ACT's two seats in the Senate in that year's federal election. Although there was early speculation that she could dislodge the Liberal Party's Gary Humphries, the results assured both major parties (the other being the Australian Labor Party) of a seat each. Her first preferences did, however, secure $67,000 in electoral funding from the Australian Electoral Commission for the Greens.

1 Legislative Assembly career
2 Since 2004
3 2007 Federal Election
4 References

[edit] Legislative Assembly career

Tucker strongly supported the public provision of housing, education, and health care. She voted for the motion of no confidence against former Chief Minister Kate Carnell. She opposed the restrictions to abortion put in place as part of a deal with former independent MLA Paul Osborne.

According to the Greens' 2004 federal election website, she also chaired the Assembly Standing Committee on Education, Community Services and Recreation, the Select Committee Inquiry into the role of public housing, and the Standing Committee on Social Policy between 1995 and 1998, and served on a number of other committees.

She was also a member of the Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament^[1].

[edit] Since 2004

Since losing her bid for the Senate, Tucker has continued to support traditionally Greens-related events and organisations, such as by chairing the ACT's 2005 Anti-Poverty Week and acting in a temporary capacity as an ACT Shelter executive officer.