- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1286
van Oostveen, Lucia
- Occupation Political candidate, Public servant, Vedic medicine practitioner
Summary
Lucia van Oostveen was part of the Natural Law Party’s attempt to bring the principles of Maharishi Vedic Science into Australian politics. She was a Natural Law Party candidate for Granville in 1995 and a candidate in the House of Representatives for Fowler in 1996.
Details
Lucia van Oostveen has been practising Maharishi Ayurveda in various Panchakarma clinics for the past 20 years. She has also studied branches of Maharishi Vedic Science in India, the United States and Sydney. She gained her nationally accredited 2-year Diploma of Health (Maharishi Ayurveda Health Education) at Maharishi Vedic College in Melbourne.
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: van Oostveen, Lucia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-731116