Senator Rachel Siewert

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the Senate for Western Australia 2004 (term began 1.7.2005) and 2010.

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Committee service

• Senate Standing: Selection of Bills from 9.8.05; Procedure from 1.7.08 to 3.2.09, from 15.6.10 to 19.6.12 and from 14.8.12; Scrutiny of Bills from 22.9.08; Senators' Interests from 25.10.10 to 5.7.11.
• Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts: Legislation Committee from 5.10.05 to 11.9.06; Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: References Committee from 7.11.05 to 11.9.06 and Legislation Committee from 14.5.09; Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport from 11.9.06 to 23.8.08; Community Affairs from 1.7.08 to 14.5.09; Community Affairs: Legislation and References Committees from 14.5.09; Finance and Public Administration: Legislation and References Committees from 14.5.09 to 5.7.11.
• Senate Select: Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities from 20.3.08 to 24.9.10.
• Joint Statutory: Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account from 1.7.05 to 23.3.06; Corporations and Financial Securities from 14.8.12 to 28.2.13.
• Joint Select: Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples from 29.11.12.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to New Zealand, April 2008.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Cambodia, July 2008.

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Parliamentary party positions

• Australian Greens Portfolios: Family, Community and Disability Services; Fisheries and Marine; Ageing; Indigenous Affairs and Indigenous Health; Agriculture; the Kimberley and Northern Australia; Natural Resource Management from 1.7.11 to 1.7.12; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Issues; Ageing; Agriculture; Family, Community and Disability Services; Fisheries and Marine; Native Title; Natural Resource Management; The Kimberley and Northern Australia from 1.7.12.
• Australian Greens Whip from 9.8.05.

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Party positions

• State Delegate (WA), National Greens Conference 2001-04.
• Coconvener, The Greens (WA) 2002-04.

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Personal

• Born 4.11.1961, Sydney, NSW.
• Single.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BSc(Agric)(UWA).
• Research officer, Department of Agriculture (WA) 1984-87.
• Coordinator, Conservation Council of WA 1987-2004.

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Honours

• Bessie Rischbieth Conservation Award 2003.

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Publications

• Towards sustainability, WA: Conservation Council of WA, 1990.
• Management Ramsar wetlands, WA: Conservation Council of WA, 1996.
• To drain or not to drain, WA: Dee Margetts, MLC, 2005.

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