Sarah Hanson-Young

Sarah Hanson-Young is the lead candidate for the South Australian Greens in the 2007 Federal Election. She was also a candidate for the Legislative Council in the 2006 South Australian election. In 2006, she captured media attention as a young, student-activist politician with potential to exsert similar influence on Australian politics as Natasha Stott Despoja did.^[1] At 25, Sarah Hanson-Young is one of Australia's youngest ever Senate candidates.

Originally from Victoria, Sarah Hanson-Young has been active in community groups and NGOs on environmental, human rights, women's and youth related issues, primarily through Amnesty International. She worked on several community projects in Orbost including the establishment of the Orbost Youth Centre.^{[citation needed]} In 1999 she was awarded "Australia Day Young Citizen of the Year" for Gippsland, Victoria. She was the Environment Officer of the Students' Association of the University of Adelaide in 2001 and in 2002 was elected its President -- its first independent president since Natasha Stott Despoja in 1990.

Formerly a board member of Unibooks, Sarah currently sits on the board of Justice for Refugees (SA) and mentors young people through the Smith Family Tertiary Mentor Program ^[2].

Sarah Hanson-Young is also a student, partway through a postgraduate law degree and holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the University of Adelaide. She is currently employed as the Community Campaigner and South Australian and Northern Territory Regional Coordinator for Amnesty International SA/NT.

She is also an expectant mother, with her first child due in April.^[3]