- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1866
Keig, Juanita Elizabeth (Nita)
(1952 – )- Nationality Australian
- Born 1 January, 1952
- Occupation Journalist
Summary
Nita Keig is a long time socialist and activist. As a member of the Socialist Workers Party she contested the following elections:
New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Balmain 1976
She also contested in the following federal seats:
House of Representatives, Grayndler, 1979, by election
House of Representatives, Sydney, 1980
House of Representatives, Oxley, Queensland, 1983.
Details
Nita Keig was editor of Young Socialist, the Socialist Youth Alliance newspaper, at the time of her first candidacy. She had previously been a journalist, and was later editor of Direct Action.
She was active in the anti-Vietnam war movement as a school student, and for three years was a nurse at Callan Park Hospital, Rozelle. In 1979 she worked at the Fourth International Centre in Paris.
Published resources
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Site Exhibition
- Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html
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Resource
- Trove: Keig, Juanita Elizabeth (1952-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-737099