- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1865
Kassim, Soraya
- Occupation Community development worker
Summary
Soraya Kassim is a community activist who stood as an Australian Greens candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for SS Kogarah in 2003. She has worked in the area of crisis counselling, youth recreation development, migrant employment, cultural projects and women’s empowerment. Her campaign literature stressed the need to invest in public education, public health and public recreation facilities.
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: Kassim, Soraya, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-747057