Kathleen is the Greens candidate for the State Electoral District of Richmond at the November 2010 Victorian election.
Kathleen is the Executive Director of a women’s health service, and was a City of Yarra councillor from 2004 to 2008. During this time, Kathleen was the chair of the Finances and Human Services, Disability Advisory and Bicycle Advisory Committees.
Kathleen is a founding Director of Project Respect, where she spearheaded the successful national campaign to put trafficking in women for prostitution on the national agenda. She was awarded the inaugural (2005) Dame Phyllis Frost Award from the National Council of Women of Victoria in recognition of her work on trafficking. Her book, Trafficked (UNSW Press) was published in July 2008.
Kathleen also worked as Interim Director of the East Timor Human Rights Centre, and is a Patron of the Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Coalition.
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