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Marion Scrymgour
House of Representatives · Australian Labor Party · Labor Left
Biography
Marion Rose Scrymgour (born 13 September 1960) is an Australian politician and the current member of parliament (MP) for the federal seat of Lingiari since 2022. She was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2012, representing the electorate of Arafura. She was the Labor Party Deputy Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from November 2007 until February 2009, and was the highest-ranked Indigenous Australian woman in government in Australia's history, as well as the first Indigenous deputy leader of an Australian government. She was also the first Indigenous woman to be elected to the Northern Territory legislature. Scrymgour, a senior minister under former…
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- Date of birth
- 1960-09-13
- Place of birth
- Darwin, Australia
- APH identifier
- F2S
Political connections
First-degree, sourced relationships in the current snapshot.
- Dorinda Cox · Shared party: Australian Labor PartyParliament of Australia (opens in a new tab)
- Karen Grogan · Shared faction: Labor LeftWikipedia (opens in a new tab)
- Jana Stewart · Shared party: Australian Labor PartyParliament of Australia (opens in a new tab)
- Alison Byrnes · Shared party: Australian Labor PartyParliament of Australia (opens in a new tab)
- Zaneta Mascarenhas · Shared faction: Labor LeftWikipedia (opens in a new tab)
- Zaneta Mascarenhas · Shared party: Australian Labor PartyParliament of Australia (opens in a new tab)
- Carina Garland · Shared faction: Labor LeftWikipedia (opens in a new tab)
- Louise Miller-Frost · Shared faction: Labor LeftWikipedia (opens in a new tab)
Parliamentary and professional history
Current and senior roles
- Date not recordedMember of the Speaker's Panel
Committee service
- 28 July 2022–presentJoint Standing — Implementation of the National Redress Scheme
- 28 July 2022–presentJoint Standing — Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (Aboriginal Affairs before 4.5.1992)
Qualifications
- Date not recordedDHealthSci
Occupations
- 1 January 2018–1 January 2021CEO of the Northern Land Council from 2018 to 2021.
- 1 January 2015–1 January 2018CEO of the Tiwi Islands Regional Council from 2015 to 2018.
- 1 January 2013–1 January 2015National Head of the ATSI Program, Australian Research Council from 2013 to 2015.