Penelope (Penny) Lesley Wright

Occupation

Environmentalist, Lawyer, Mediator and Parliamentarian

Jurisdiction

SA - State

Penny Wright, a member of the Australian Greens party, was elected to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia representing the state of South Australia. She took her seat in the Senate on 1 July 2011.

Sources used to compile this entry: Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds), 'Wright, Penelope Lesley', The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2 May 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0081b.htm.

Prepared by Rosemary Francis

Created: 21 September 2010, Last modified: 13 July 2016

This exhibition is an outcome from 'The Trailblazing Women and the Law' project, a collaboration between the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.

This research was generously supported by the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects funding scheme (project number LP120200367), and project partners: Australian Women Lawyers, Family Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, National Foundation for Australian Women and the National Library of Australia.

Data in this exhibition is up-to-date to 30 June 2016.
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Published by the Australian Women's Archives Project 2016
ISBN 978-0-7340-5406-7
http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers/biogs/AWE4583b.htm