Joanna Maria Lindgren was born on 5 November 1969 and is an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from May 2015 to July 2016.
11 Facts About Joanna Lindgren
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Joanna Lindgren sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament until her defeat at the 2016 federal election.
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Joanna Lindgren was the second Indigenous Australian woman to serve in the Senate, after Nova Peris.
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Joanna Lindgren joined the Australian Conservatives in 2018 and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Senate at the 2019 federal election.
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Joanna Lindgren is an Aboriginal Australian with Jagera and Mununjali ancestry.
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Joanna Lindgren's granduncle, Neville Bonner, was a senator for Queensland, and was the first Indigenous Australian in the Australian Parliament.
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At the 2012 state election, Joanna Lindgren contested the seat of Inala, a safe Labor seat held by Annastacia Palaszczuk.
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Joanna Lindgren won the vote, and at the same time, was preselected for the third position on the LNP senate ticket at the 2016 federal election.
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The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Joanna Lindgren was a "surprise candidate" who "opposes gay marriage, abortion and euthanasia" after the LNP opposed Glasson's support for homosexual activism.
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Joanna Lindgren joined Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives in 2018 and ran on the party's Queensland Senate ticket at the 2019 federal election.
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Joanna Lindgren's husband Peter Anderson-Barr is a policeman, and was briefly an LNP candidate for the seat of Logan at the 2012 state election, but withdrew before the close of nominations.