Marion+Scrymgour

Marion Rose Scrymgour Scrymgour was born on 13th, September, 1960, Darwin, Tiwi Islands. She inherited her Tiwi heritage from her mother, Claire Mollimini. Her father was forcibly moved away from his home in Central Australia. She attended Primary and secondary school in Darwin; Saint Paul’s primary school in Nightcliff and St Mary’s in Darwin CBD. And for secondary school, she went to Sydney at Our Lady of Sacred Heart College and Saint John’s College When she turned to a mature age, she under took courses like, accounting, administration, and health economics.

Scrymgour was also an active member of the, Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous union, and represented that union at the national Conference of the Australian Labour Party. She became one of the members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since, August. That was when she became the first indigenous female minister in Australia and the first female indigenous Cabinet Minister. After the 2005 election, Scrymgour was a minister for Natural Resources Environment and the Arts. Also after a reshuffle on 13th August 2007, she also became a Family and Community Services minister and was also a minister of Child Protection.

On December 24th, Marion Scrymgour spent several hours at the emergency department of Royal Darwin Hospital, she had gone through, ‘an emotional and physical collapse.’ In June, 2009, Scrymgour resigned from the cabinet minister seat, because of depression on her father’s death. She has stepped down from the Deputy Chief Minister seat. And on 4, August, 2009, Scrymgour announced that she would rejoin the Labour Party. Scrymgour is an electorate of Arafura which covers the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin, which includes the Kakadu National Park. The whole area the electorate covers is, 201,900 sq km and ¾ of the population in the area are indigenous. It also covers the Arafura Sea. She is currently a member of the Lower House of Representatives also she is currently married to David Dalrymple and has three children, Cherise, Richard and Helen. Bib [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] = [] [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Scrymgour\] [] -Olivia Kim-