Cate Faehrmann resigned from the Legislative Council in June 2013 to stand for the Senate at the federal election of the same year, and was unsuccessful in obtaining a seat.
10 Facts About Cate Faehrmann
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Cate Faehrmann worked in the office of the Leader of the Australian Greens, Richard Di Natale, as his chief of staff from May 2015 to March 2018.
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Cate Faehrmann was born in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, and spent her childhood in a small country town west of Brisbane.
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Cate Faehrmann attended Griffith University in Queensland, where she worked to establish a Women's Collective on campus, and was active in pro-choice campaigns at the time.
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Cate Faehrmann graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from La Trobe University.
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Cate Faehrmann was a founding board member of the progressive political organisation GetUp in 2005, and was on the board of the public interest environmental law firm, the Environmental Defenders Office of NSW from 2004 onwards.
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Between 2001 and 2005, Cate Faehrmann worked as a media advisor and campaign coordinator for the Greens party in South Australia, New South Wales and New Zealand.
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Cate Faehrmann was preselected to fill the casual vacancy left by the resignation of Lee Rhiannon and took her place in the NSW Legislative Council in September 2010.
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Cate Faehrmann was preselected in a statewide postal ballot of members to be the Greens lead Senate candidate for NSW in the 2013 federal election.
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In 2014, Cate Faehrmann replaced Bob Brown as chairperson of Sea Shepherd Australia.