Katrine Hildyard
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Katrine Hildyard MP |
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| Member of the South Australian Parliament for Reynell |
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Assumed office 15 March 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Gay Thompson |
| Majority | 10% |
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| Born | Katrine Anne Hildyard |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Charles Wright |
| Education | Flinders University |
| Profession | Trade union leader, company director, clerical worker, cleaner |
| Religion | Catholic |
Katrine Anne Hildyard is an Australian politician representing the electoral district of Reynell in the Parliament of South Australia.
She has held the seat as a member of the Australian Labor Party since the 2014 state election, and is currently Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier of South Australia.
Hildyard was born in Adelaide and grew up in Netley with her brother and two sisters. During Hildyard's childhood her mother was the victim of domestic violence from her estranged father, which shaped her passion on the issue in later life.
Hildyard attended Plympton High School and studied a Bachelor of Arts at Flinders University as a mature age student. She worked as a cleaner, shop assistant, lecturer, and clerical worker. She later graduated from the Australian Institute of Company Directors and was a Fellow of the Governor's Leadership Foundation.
Hildyard joined the Australian Labor Party in the 1990s and became a member of the Labor Left. She worked for ALP Senator Nick Bolkus between 1994 and 1996.
In 1996 Hildyard began working for the South Australian branch of the Australian Services Union (ASU), where she was elected Assistant Secretary in 2006 and later Secretary in 2009.
As Secretary the ASU campaigned for overwhelmingly female community sector workers to have their wages increased to match their mainly-male private sector counterparts. An equal pay case before Fair Work Australia was successful in 2012, and the State Government committed to increasing wages between 19 and 41 per cent. The ASU also committed to supporting same-sex marriage and lobbying the Labor Party to change its policy, which at the time was opposed to any change.
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