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Cheryl Kernot (Pronounced Ker-no) (born December 5, 1948) is a former Australian politician. She was the fifth leader of the Australian Democrats (April 23, 1993 to October 15, 1997). December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Political career
 Cheryl Kernot
The image above is believed to be a replaceable fair use image. It will be deleted on 2007-01-05 if not determined to be irreplaceable. If you believe this image is not replaceable, follow the instructions on the image page to dispute this assertion. Kernot spent twelve years as a political activist while working as a school teacher in Queensland. She was first elected as a Senator for Queensland in 1990, taking over from the retiring Senator Michael Macklin, who had held the seat for the Democrats following the 1980 election. Her performance as a Senator impressed the party membership sufficiently to be comfortably elected as party Leader following the 1993 election, which was a relatively poor one for the Democrats. She developed a positive public profile and rebuilt the Democrats' popularity, leading the party to one of its best ever results in 1996 and obtaining a primary vote of over 13% in her own re-election contest for one of the 6 Senate spots in Queensland, which was the highest vote the Democrats ever achieved in Queensland. In October 1997 Kernot controversially defected to the Australian Labor Party, resigning her Senate seat and leaving the leadership of the Democrats to Meg Lees. Her Senate vacancy was filled by Andrew Bartlett. A defection such as this of a political figure at the height of their popularity is extremely rare, and was thus seen as a major political coup for the Labor Party, as well as a huge blow to the Democrats. Image File history File links Cheryl_Kernot_Publicity_Shot. ...
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Meg Lees Meg Heather Lees (born October 19, 1948) has been the founder and sole representative of the Australian Progressive Alliance in the Australian Senate since 2003, representing the state of South Australia. ...
Andrew Bartlett Andrew John Julian Bartlett (born 4 August 1964), Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland since 1997, representing the Australian Democrats, of which he is Deputy Leader and Party Whip. ...
In her speech resigning from the Democrats[1], Kernot did not criticise the Democrats, saying her motivation was due to a "growing sense of outrage at the damage being done to Australia by the Howard Government" and that her position leading a minor party in the Senate meant she "had a limited capacity to help minimise that damage." She also stated that she was "well aware of the political risks in this course of action", a statement that proved prescient, as history shows it to have turned out disastrously.
While a member of the Australian Labor Party, Kernot narrowly won one election as the ALP candidate for Dickson at the 1998 Federal Election, before losing it at the 2001 Federal Election to the Liberal Party candidate Peter Dutton. Her period as a member of the Labor Party was marked by her position as Shadow Minister of Education, and a series of badly judged media appearances including an infamous photo of her wearing a red dress with a red feather boa. When she was voted out in 2001 she appeared on national TV to launch a stinging and bitter attack on the Labor Party, the Australian voters and various other figures. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
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Life after politics After retiring from politics she wrote a "full and frank" book about her experiences, which notably failed to reveal that she had been having an affair whilst leader of the Democrats with ALP frontbencher and former Australian Foreign Minister, Gareth Evans, despite both of them being married to other people at the time. [2] She also did not mention the fact that in March 1998, Gareth Evans had denied in Parliament that the two were having an affair. The affair is thought to have ended in October 1999 and Kernot was hospitalised for what was called glandular fever at the time, but which she later described as an immune system breakdown caused by emotional and physical exhaustion. Hon Gareth Evans Gareth John Evans (born 5 September 1944), Australian politician, served as Attorney-General and Foreign Minister of Australia during the Hawke-Keating Labor governments. ...
Kernot now lives in London, and has recently been the director of learning at the London School for Social Entrepreneurs. She has since become a Programme Director in the Nurse/AHP's Developmental Programme in Social Entrepreneurship at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
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Reference - Cheryl Kernot, Senate Biography
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