Helen Evelyn Kroger is a former Australian politician.
11 Facts About Helen Kroger
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Helen Kroger was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing the state of Victoria from 2008 to 2014.
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Helen Kroger was the president of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party from 2003 to 2006.
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Helen Kroger studied economics at Monash University in the 1970s, where she met her future husband Michael Kroger.
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Helen Kroger married Michael Kroger in the early 1980s, and they had two sons.
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Helen Kroger left the corporate world and ran Blacamoor Delicatessen, a small delicatessen in Malvern East.
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Helen Kroger was elected to the Australian Senate for Victoria at the 2007 federal election, after being preselected in the safe second position on the Liberal ticket, behind Mitch Fifield and ahead of number three candidate Scott Ryan.
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In May 2012, Helen Kroger was preselected for the vulnerable third-place position on the Victorian Senate ticket at the 2013 election, adding some risk to her chances of re-election.
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Helen Kroger was a member of a Liberal- and Labor-dominated committee that advocated the change to the method of voting in Senate elections that came into force at the 2016 federal election.
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Helen Kroger was defeated at the 2013 federal election for the sixth Senate place in Victoria, losing to Ricky Muir from the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party.
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On 2 July 2016, Helen Kroger was defeated as a Liberal candidate for the electorate of Bruce by Julian Hill of the Labor Party.