Rebecca White
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Rebecca White MP |
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| 54th Leader of the Opposition in Tasmania | |
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Assumed office 17 March 2017 |
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| Premier | Will Hodgman |
| Deputy | Michelle O'Byrne |
| Preceded by | Bryan Green |
| Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Lyons |
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Assumed office 20 March 2010 |
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Rebecca Peta White 4 February 1983 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Domestic partner | Rod Dann |
| Children | One |
| Alma mater | University of Tasmania |
| Occupation | politician |
| Website | becwhite |
Rebecca Peta White (born 4 February 1983) is an Australian politician, who has served as the Leader of the Opposition in Tasmania and Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party in Tasmania since March 2017. She has been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Lyons since the 2010 state election. Before she was leader, White served as Shadow Minister for Health and Human Services, and Opposition Spokesperson for Children.
White grew up in Nugent, Tasmania, northeast of Hobart. She attended Sorell School and the University of Tasmania, where she studied journalism, political science, and international business management and marketing. She graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce degrees in 2004. She then worked as a political adviser for Labor MP for Denison Duncan Kerr.
For the 2010 Tasmanian state election, White was endorsed as one of the Labor candidates for Lyons. Her campaign focused on "renewal", pointing out that sitting MPs Michael Polley and David Llewellyn had both been in the parliament for over twenty years. Her advertising made use of Polly Waffle wrappers, "Pollywaffle" being a disparaging nickname for Polley. At the election, White narrowly defeated Llewellyn for the second Labor seat (also defeating the third sitting MP, Heather Butler).
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