Australian Women's Register

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne

Skip to content

Browse Entries

Exhibitions

  • Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections

Use Trove to find more resources by/about this Woman

  • Trove

Overington, Karen Marie (1951 - )

Born
16 November 1951
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Parliamentarian and Welfare worker
Website
http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/handbook
/searchresult.cfm?menuid=1&memberId=139

Summary

A member of the Australian Labor Party, Karen Overington was elected as the Member for Ballarat West in the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Victoria in September 1999. She was a candidate for the seat in 1992. She was re-elected in November 2002 and again in 2006. Previously she had served in Local Government as Councillor for the Boroughs of Sebastopol, 1982-94 and the City of Ballarat, 1996-99 and as Mayor of Sebastopol from 1990-91.

Related entries

Published resources

The Australian Women's Register Exhibitions

Online Resources

See also

  • Victorian Parliamentary Handbook, no. 8, the 55th Parliament, The Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic., 2004, 199 pp. Details
  • Victorian Parliamentary Handbook Electronic Edition, Parliament of Victoria, 2005, http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/handbook. Details
  • Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2002, 2020 pp. Details

Rosemary Francis

Created: 11 November 2005, Last modified: 3 September 2008

Comments

Leave a comment

Comment guidelines

(required)
(required)

Site-wide information and acknowledgements

National Foundation for Australian Women The University of Melbourne, eScholarship Research Centre

http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE1303b.htm

The Australian Women's Register is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License