Margaret Ann (Peg) Putt (born 5 June 1953, Sydney) is an Australian politician and parliamentary leader of the Tasmanian Greens. Events 70 - Titus and his Roman Legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The Tasmanian Greens are a political party in Australia who developed from numerous environmental campaigns in Tasmania, including the flooding of Lake Pedder She first entered the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1993 after Bob Brown resigned and votes in the Hobart electorate of Denison were recounted. The House of Assembly, or lower house is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia Robert James Brown (born December 27, 1944) is an Australian Senator the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and the The Division of Denison, Tasmania is one of the 5 electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly or lower house
Prior to moving to Tasmania Ms Putt had worked with Aboriginal communities on Elcho Island in the Northern Territory. Elcho Island is an island off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the center of the mainland continent as well as the central northern regions She moved to Tasmania in 1986 with her two daughters, where she became spokesperson for the Huon Protection Group which succeeded in stopping development of a new woodchip mill on the Huon River. She also founded the Tasmanian Threatened Species Network and was director of the Tasmanian Conservation Trust. Tasmanian Conservation Trust is a Tasmanian based non-profit conservation organisation formed in 1968 [1]
The 1996 state election gave the Greens the balance of power and Ms Putt was one of four Greens to be in parliament during the period of balance of power. In Parliamentary politics the term balance of power sometimes describes the pragmatic mechanism exercised by a minor Political party or other grouping whose guaranteed In 1998 the Labor and Liberal parties restructured the Tasmanian Parliament, reducing the number of House of Assembly members from 35 and 25. In the 1998 state election, called one week after the restructure, she was the only one out of four Greens to retain a seat and became leader as a result. Four years later in the 2002 election she recorded the second highest vote of 12,036 (20. 0%) after Tasmanian premier Jim Bacon. James Alexander Bacon AC ( 15 May 1950 - 20 June 2004) was Premier of Tasmania from 1998 to 2004 In doing so, she outpolled the leader of the Tasmanian division of the Liberal Party of Australia, Bob Cheek, in their electorate of Denison. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. Robert Reginald 'Bob' Cheek (born 13 May 1944, Launceston Tasmania) was leader of the Opposition Tasmanian Liberal Party from 20 August Ms Putt was re-elected in the 2006 election, receiving 18. 4% of first preferences, a decrease compared to her previous result of 20. 0% in the 2002 election, but the highest of any Denison candidate.
On her political opponent Paul Lennon, Ms Putt says "I don't think we've got one thing in common. Paul Anthony Lennon (born 8 October 1955)is an Australian Labor Party politician He can have his racing and betting; I like bushwalking and rowing. "[1]
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- Armstrong, Lance J. E. (1997). Good God, He’s Green! A History of Tasmanian Politics 1989-1996. Wahroonga, N. S. W. , Pacific Law Press. ISBN 1-875192-08-5
- Lines, William J. (2006) Patriots : defending Australia's natural heritage St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2006. ISBN 0-70223-554-7
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