- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1830
Hailes, Gerda
- Occupation Christian counsellor
Summary
Gerda Hailes is a committed Christian who ran for the Christian Democrat Party in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Wyong.
Details
Gerda Hailes migrated to Australia from Holland with her family in 1959. She lived first in Sydney and then on the Central Coast since 1986.
She has taught scripture at primary school, Sunday school and to a Ladies Bible Study class. She has also been involved in her local Community Centre, teaching handwork in an outreach program.
She completed a Christian counselling course and since 2001 has been engaged in private counselling practice.
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Hailes, Gerda, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-697061
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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