- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1948
Overend, Marie Ann
- Preferred name Overend, Ann
- Occupation Political candidate
Summary
Ann Overend was living in Leppington in 1999 when she ran in the inner western seat of Marrickville (New South Wales Legislative Assembly) for a newly formed party, the Euthanasia Referendum Party. The purpose of the party was to promote a referendum to allow voters to directly support euthanasia legislation reform. She ran last in a field of 8.
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: Overend, Marie Ann, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477319