User:Rebecca/Drafts/Lucy Horodny
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Lucy Horodny is an Australian politician and environmentalist.
Horodny, who is of Ukrainian descent, first made her name as an activist for the Wilderness Society. She made a move into politics in 1995, when she ran as an Australian Greens candidate for the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. She subsequently defeated liberal independent Helen Szuty, and took her place as one of two new Green members in the Assembly, alongside Kerrie Tucker.
Immediately after the 1995 election, Horodny and Tucker caused some controversy among sections of the left wing when they supported the installation of the conservative Kate Carnell as Chief Minister - though they often clashed with Carnell and her party in parliament over social and environmental issues.
In her one term in the Legislative Assembly, she was a strong advocate for environmental causes, both inside the ACT, such as the preservation of the Black Mountain area (which had been threatened by the Gungahlin Drive extension), and outside, such as her attempts to save Tasmania's environmentally sensitive Tarkine wilderness area from logging and development. She also advocated for several progressive causes, such as a bid to legalise voluntary euthanasia in the ACT, which only failed after Louise Littlewood, a Liberal MLA who had the deciding vote, chose to vote against. (Andrews Bill)
. She also vocally opposed the demolition of the Royal Canberra Hospital, preferring that the buildings be reused, and later, once the demolition became inevitable, opposed the government's preferred method, implosion, on environmental grounds.
Horodny gave birth to a daughter in late 1997, and announced soon after that she would take a year off from work and step down at the coming election. She was replaced in the Legislative Assembly by conservative independent Dave Rugendyke.
lived in Molonglo, ran in Ginninderra
WOODCHIP: Greens move into rain forest
Environmentalists yesterday moved into a large area of rain forest in East Gippsland to protest against a move to grant woodchip licences to log in the Victoria's south-east. A spokeswoman for the East Gippsland Forest Alliance, Ms Lucy Horodny, said about 40 members of the alliance had tied ribbons around trees in a 1000-hectare area at Hensleigh Creek and planned to occupy the forest throughout the day. (1993)
animal welfare (1996) (champion of battery hens)
late trading in town centres/major supermarkets - supporting suburban retail
yarralumla brickworks (1996)
when 12% raise - only accepted a quarter of theirs and donated the rest to environmental organisations
Manuka supermarket development
April 18 1997 - praised by David Suzuki ("Suzuki Hands Praise To Horodny: She's Terrific") "The Canadian environmentalist is preparing an eight-part series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on how the world views the coming arrival of the new millennium, and made a flying visit to Canberra yesterday with much less than his usual fanfare." "He said he had sought out Ms Horodny because he was particularly interested in her role as an activist who had moved into the political arena. "She's terrific. I was very impressed. She has a good grasp of fundamental issues," he said. Ms Horodny said Dr Suzuki was keen to discuss how lawmakers who were elected for short terms handled the responsibility of making decisions that might have a serious impact a decade or a century later."
1997 - allegations about mismanagement of landcare programs - government was not happy with the criticism
16 Sep - Kaine, Whitecross and the Greens' Lucy Horodny (2.49). Canberra Times Datacol - recognised by 48 per cent of those polled.
"promised preselection by the Greens but may not run again."
22 Sep - "Greens MLA Lucy Horodny's political career is on ice after she flew home to Canberra at the weekend with a nine-month-old girl she adopted in Ethiopia."
roads and emissions
full-time parent afterwards
