- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1780
Thomson, Lorraine
- Occupation Nurse
Summary
Lorraine Thomson is a health worker who believes in sustainable cities. She ran as a Save Our Suburbs candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Marrickville in 2003 and in the 2005 Marrickville by-election.
Details
Lorraine Thomson trained as a nurse and midwife and in 2005 she was working for the Red Cross Blood Bank. She was concerned not just for the suburban environment but also for native animals and is the organiser of an inner city branch of the NSW Wildlife Information and Rescue Service (WIRES)
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Thomson, Lorraine, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-693065
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Site Exhibition
- Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html