Alanna Therese Clohesy was born on 21 August 1962 and is an Australian politician who is the 19th and current President of the Western Australian Legislative Council.
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Alanna Clohesy was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council as a Labor Party member for the East Metropolitan region at the 2013 state election.
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Immediately following her election to the Council, Clohesy was appointed Deputy Chair of Committees.
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Alanna Clohesy was born in Sea Lake, Victoria on 21 August 1962.
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Alanna Clohesy was one of six children raised solely by her mother before the social reforms of the Whitlam Government, a situation that greatly influenced her worldview.
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Alanna Clohesy has travelled extensively within Australia, living in several major capital cities.
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Alanna Clohesy spent time in Adelaide where she worked as a social policy consultant while undertaking tertiary education and was a lecturer in the School of International, Community and Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University while undertaking postgraduate studies.
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Alanna Clohesy's subjects included public policy in women's health, welfare policy and feminist theory.
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Alanna Clohesy has been a member of the Australian Labor Party since 1984.
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Alanna Clohesy was elected President of the WA Labor Branch in 2010 and re-elected in 2012.
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Alanna Clohesy was elected to the Legislative Council of Western Australia in 2013 and was re-elected at the 2017 state election.
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On 25 May 2021, the day after the swearing-in of MLCs elected at the 2021 state election, Alanna Clohesy was elected to serve as the 19th President of the Western Australian Legislative Council.