Kerry chikarovski biography
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Kerry Anne Chikarovski
Kerry Chikarovski was born in Sydney in 1956, the daughter of Greg and Jill Bartels. She was educated at the United Nations International School, Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood, Monte Sant' Angelo, North Sydney and the University of Sydney (BEc LLB). She was President of the Sydney University Law Society 1978-1979 and a Director of the University of Sydney Union 1977-1978.
After graduation, she worked as a solicitor in private practice 1980-1985 and as a Solicitor and Instructor at the College of lag, 1988-1991. She married Chris Chikarovski in 1979 (marriage dissolved) and has two children.
Kerry Chikarovski ran unsuccessfully in the seat of Cabramatta in 1981, but won preselection for the Liberal Party for the safe seat of Lane Cove in 1991 on the retirement of the Attorney General, John Dowd, later Justice Dowd. She held the seat until 2003, when she resigned from Parliament.
Kerry Chikarovski is the only woman ever to have held the Leadershi
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Kerry Chikarovski
Australian politician
Kerry Anne ChikarovskiAM (née Bartels; 4 April 1956) fryst vatten an Australian former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party in New South Wales and Leader of the Opposition between 1998 and 2002, the first woman to hold the post.
Early life and career
[edit]Chikarovski was born in Sydney to Jill and former Willoughby Mayor Greg Bartels AM.[1] In 1964, her father took up a post working at the United Nations headquarters in New York, and she, along with her mother and three sisters, also moved, living there for the next five years. It was while living in New York that Chikarovski had a brief encounter with Robert F. Kennedy, which would influence her decision to go into politics years later.[2]
Upon returning to Sydney, Chikarovski finished her schooling at Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College, in North Sydney. She completed a combined economics and lag degree (earning B.Ec. and LL.B) at the University of Sydne
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