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Linda Kirk
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Linda Jean Kirk (born 24 May 1967) is an Australian politician. Kirk was elected to the Australian Senate for South Australia in July 2001, representing the Australian Labor Party. She was supported in her preselection and election campaign by Don Farrell and his Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, the largest trade union in Australia. She began her term on July 1, 2002.
She studied at the University of Adelaide and graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Law and a Degree in Economics. She went on to study a Master of Laws at the University of Cambridge. Kirk returned to Adelaide and become a corporate lawyer. She was elected a Councillor on the Adelaide City Council from 1998 to 2000. She was a republican delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention in 1998.
Without the support of the powerfull Right faction of the Labor Party Ms Kirk will probably not continue in her role as Senator, recent articles in the Advertiser Newspaper have featured stories on the Senators demise in the party and probable loss of preselection on the SA Senate ticket at the next Federal Election. Much of this has been put down to Ms Kirk voting against SDA policy and not with other members of the Right Faction on major issue and including the recent leadership ballot between Kevin Rudd and Kim Beazley.
Kirk is the convenor of the South Australian Fabian Society and is completing a doctoral thesis on constitutional law for the Australian National University.
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