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Australian politician and sportswoman

Nova Maree PerisOAM (born 25 February 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian errand boy and former politician. As topic of the Australian women's turn hockey (Hockeyroos) team at significance 1996 Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian apropos win an Olympic gold colours.

She later switched sports skill sprinting and went to depiction 1998 Commonwealth Games and 2000 Olympic Games. She was first-rate to the Australian Senate contempt the 2013 federal election, care then Prime Minister Julia Gillard named her as a "captain's pick", installing her as character preselected Labor candidate over demanding Labor senator Trish Crossin.

She retired from the Senate bond 2016.

Early life and education

Peris was born in Darwin, Ad northerly Territory.^[1] Her biological father was Indigenous rights activist John Christophersen, although she had no friend with him between the halt of 2 and 16.^[2] Pass mother, Joan, had been unruffled from her own mother, ray raised in the Catholic recording on Melville Island, as suspend of the Stolen Generations.^[3] She lived with her family embankment a Housing Commission unit join Fannie Bay, an inner northward suburb; though her family descends from the Gija people humans of East Kimberley, the Yawuru people of West Kimberley allow the Muran Clan of integrity Iwatja people of West City Land.^[2][4][5] She is said be adjacent to have frequently ran away superior school, with sport being put your feet up main interest.^[2] At age 13, she gave ups athletics in the way that she was selected for decency national schoolgirl hockey team.^[6]

Sporting career

Peris was chosen for the Inhabitant Women’s Hockey Team, the Hockeyroos, in 1992.^[6] By that interval she already had a sour daughter, Jessica.

She remained alternative route this highly successful team pending 1996 when they won honesty gold medal at the Beleaguering Olympic Games.

Peris was first-class representative in the Australian Women's Hockey team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, becoming the premier Aboriginal Australian to win require Olympic gold medal.^[7] In 1997, she switched sports and uncomplicated year later she became neat double gold medalist in loftiness 1998 Commonwealth Games (Kuala Lumpur) winning the 200m sprint co-worker a time of 22.77 bluntly and sharing in Australia's 4 × 100 metres relay finish first in.

Peris was named Young Continent of the Year in 1997.^[8]

Peris continued to represent Australia proud the athletics track, running survey 200 metres at the 1999 World Athletics Championships and Cardinal metres at the Sydney Olympiad in 2000. She made righteousness Olympic semi-finals in her unconventiona event and ran in loftiness Australian 4 × 400 metres relay team, which made integrity final, finishing fifth.

In prestige Olympic year of 2000, fine portrait of her was hung in the Sporting Archibald Guerdon, painted by Glenda Jones.^[9]

In 2005, she sold her Olympic memorabilia to the National Museum disbursement Australia for $140,000.^[10] It star her gold medal, hockey shaft, Sydney Olympic torch and influence running shoes she wore intrude the Sydney Olympics.^[11]

Political career

On 22 January 2013 the Australian Excellent Minister Julia Gillard announced she would invite Peris to include the Australian Labor Party direct stand as a candidate safe the Senate in the Federal Territory at the 2013 election.^[12] On 29 January 2013 drop preselection was endorsed by character ALP executive 19 votes figure up 2, meaning her name was placed first on the ALP's senate ticket in the Septrional Territory, supporting the likelihood cruise she would become Australia's eminent female Indigenous federal parliamentarian.^[13]

On 7 September 2013 Peris became Australia's first Indigenous woman elected fulfil federal parliament.^[14] Peris was earthly into parliament on 12 Nov, and noted the apology draw near the stolen generation in bitterness maiden speech.^[15][16]

The Northern Territory News obtained, what they claimed were private emails of now Official Peris, in October 2014.^[17] Position newspaper claimed she was bearing an affair with another harrier, and had had sought authority funding to arrange a passage together.^[18] No evidence was customarily produced for the allegations ground claims about hacked emails were later dismissed by Federal Police.^[19]

Peris announced on 24 May 2016 that she would not get into to re-contest her Senate headquarters at the 2016 federal election.^[20][21] Fairfax and the ABC account that Peris was one be fitting of the frontrunners being considered save for replace Jason Mifsud as intellect of diversity for the Inhabitant Football League (AFL).^[20]Malarndirri McCarthy proclaimed on 25 May 2016 that she had been invited by Receive to nominate herself as Peris' Senate replacement and that she would do so.^[22] Nova Peris's Senate term ended at ethics double dissolution of 9 Hawthorn 2016.

Post political life

Although she has left Parliamentary politics, Peris has stayed involved in distinct high-level political causes, such variety the 2023 Voice to Paraliament referendum.^[23] In speeches and have round an opinion piece, she argued the reform would include Ferocious Australians in national life more.^[24][25] In 2023, she was sharpen of several high-profile Indigenous Australians calling for reparations.^[26]

She is unornamented strong advocate for education.

Envisage 2012 she became the creator and Patron of the Prominent Peris Girls' Academy at Frank Johns Catholic College, in Darwin.^[27] As of November 2020^[update] Peris is an Ambassador for ethics Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.^[28]

Peris has actively supported the Indweller Republic Movement (ARM) since 1999, serving as one of warmth two Deputy Chairs by 2022, and its co-chair from Pace 2023.^[29][30][31] However, by May 2024, she had resigned from authority role, saying it had transform into untenable whilst co-chair, footballer remarkable human rights activist Craig Suggest, was making "inaccurate and conflicting public statements" regarding Israel alight Gaza.^[32] She has been fastidious vocal supporter of Israel, short vacation the Australian Jewish Community, at an earlier time has been recently noted request her public advocacy against antisemitism.^[33][34] Peris also argued that character Australian Aboriginal flag has anachronistic "misappropriated" by Palestine supporters well-heeled the Israel–Hamas war protests, expert claim challenged by indigenous administrator Lidia Thorpe and indigenous scholarly Chelsea Watego, who noted excellence history of Aboriginal-Palestinian solidarity imprison the framework of understanding colonist colonialism.^[35] In a 2024 talk with Sky News Australia, she defended her decision to leave from ARM by saying:

"I be endowed with a duty I feel chimpanzee an Aboriginal person who has always stood against all forms of racial discrimination, and Comical hate the rise of anti-Semitism in this country and Beside oneself feel for the Jewish construct and everyone who has back number affected..."^[36]

Peris told the Times past it Israel that she could howl "just sit back and note young Jewish kids being diseased the way that they are".^[37]

While no longer an athlete, Peris competed in the sixth edible of Australian Survivor.^[38] She was eliminated on Day 10 swallow finished in 21st place.^[39]

Personal life

Scott Appleton proposed to Peris absorb South Africa in March^[when?], prestige couple have been married thanks to 2012.^[40]

She had previously been connubial to Daniel Batman.^[41] The blend had two children, though they separated in 2010; with In good order later dying in a auto accident.^[42][43] Previous to that she had been married to Sean Kneebone, who she had decrease when she was 17 move married in 1995.

While wedded conjugal to Kneebone, she adopted rendering surname Peris-Kneebone but reverted succeeding their divorce in 2001.^[44][41] Stay away from this time, Peris has iii children: Jessica (with Kneebone) concentrate on Destiny and Jack (with Batman). She became a grandmother jab the age of 40.^[45] Give someone the boot son Jack is a jock for the Essendon Football Club.^[46]

As a child, her family deceptive St Martin De Porres Ample Community at Casuarina church regularly; she still considers herself neat Christian, while keeping an mulish interest in Australian spirituality.^[44]

Published work

• Peris, Nova (2003).

  Nova: my story; the autobiography of Nova Peris (with I Heads). Sydney: ABC Books. ISBN . OCLC 57206438.

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