Catryna Bilyk

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Catryna Bilyk will be a member of the Australian Senate from July 2008. She was elected to serve a six-year term in the Senate at the 2007 federal election, after being placed in the third position on the Australian Labor Party's Tasmanian ticket.

Bilyk was elected to the sixth Senate seat for Tasmania, on preferences distributed from Andrew Wilkie, the Australian Greens' second candidate for the Senate in Tasmania in the 2007 election.[1] Bilyk worked as an industrial officer for trade unions and has been ALP National Vice-President. She is married with two adult children.[2][3]

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  1. ^ Australian Electoral Commission, Tasmanian preference count, 2007 election, retrieved January 2008
  2. ^ Australian Labor Party, Ms Catryna Bilyk - Senator Elect for Tasmania, retrieved January 2008
  3. ^ Australian Services Union, ASU official appointed ALP Vice-President, retrieved January 2008