Peg Putt
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Margaret Ann (Peg) Putt (born 5 June 1953, Sydney) is an Australian politician and parliamentary leader of the Tasmanian Greens. She first entered the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1993 after Bob Brown resigned and votes in the Hobart electorate of Denison were recounted.
Prior to moving to Tasmania Ms Putt had worked with Aboriginal communities on Elcho Island in the Northern Territory. She moved to Tasmania in 1986 with her two daughters, where she became spokesperson for the Huon Protection Group which succeeded in stopping development of a new woodchip mill on the Huon River. She also founded the Tasmanian Threatened Species Network and was director of the Tasmanian Conservation Trust.[1]
The 1996 state election gave the Greens the balance of power and Ms Putt was one of four Greens to be in parliament during the period of balance of power. In 1998 the Labor and Liberal parties restructured the Tasmanian Parliament, reducing the number of House of Assembly members from 35 and 25. In the 1998 state election, called one week after the restructure, she was the only one out of four Greens to retain a seat and became leader as a result. Four years later in the 2002 election she recorded the second highest vote of 12,036 (20.0%) after Tasmanian premier Jim Bacon. In doing so, she outpolled the leader of the Tasmanian division of the Liberal Party of Australia, Bob Cheek, in their electorate of Denison. Ms Putt was re-elected in the 2006 election, receiving 18.4% of first preferences, a decrease compared to her previous result of 20.0% in the 2002 election, but the highest of any Denison candidate.
On her political opponent Paul Lennon, Ms Putt says "I don't think we've got one thing in common. He can have his racing and betting; I like bushwalking and rowing."[1]
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- Armstrong, Lance J.E. (1997). Good God, He’s Green! A History of Tasmanian Politics 1989-1996. Wahroonga, N.S.W., Pacific Law Press. ISBN 1-875192-08-5
- Lines, William J. (2006) Patriots : defending Australia's natural heritage St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2006. ISBN 0-70223-554-7
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