Kerry Nettle
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Senator Kerry Michelle Nettle |
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| Senator for New South Wales | |
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In office 1 July 2002 – 30 June 2008 |
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24 December 1973 Sydney, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Greens |
| Website | KerryNettle.org.au |
Kerry Michelle Nettle (born 24 December 1973) is a former Australian Senator and member of the Australian Greens in New South Wales. Elected at the 2001 federal election on a primary vote of 4.36 percent with One Nation and micro-party preferences, she failed to gain re-election at the 2007 federal election, despite an increase in the Green primary vote to 8.43 percent, due to insufficient preferences.
Kerry Nettle was born 24 December 1973, in Sydney, to Edward and Beverley Nettle. She grew up in the suburb of Marsfield, and received her primary education at local government schools, and secondary education at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon where she was elected school vice captain in her final year. Following graduation from high school in 1991, Nettle enrolled at the University of New South Wales, where she obtained a degree in environmental science and was active in student politics, caucusing with the group known as the Non-Aligned Left (the predecessor of the Grassroots Left). She worked as office coordinator for The Greens (NSW) and then as a youth worker. She joined the Australian Greens in 1998 and was elected to the Australian Senate for New South Wales in November 2001, joining Senator Bob Brown until her term expired on 30 June 2008.
Nettle is a social liberal and an environmentalist. She believes in Government ownership of essential services, which include banking, airlines, telecommunications, health and education, and other areas privatised in the last two decades in Australia. She argues that private ownership of these assets is "social theft."
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