Lisa Maria Singh was born on 20 February 1972 and is an Australian former politician.
35 Facts About Lisa Singh
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Lisa Singh was a Senator for Tasmania from 2011 to 2019.
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Lisa Singh had previously been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the division of Denison from 2006 to 2010.
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The granddaughter of an Indo-Fijian member of the Parliament of Fiji, Singh was Australia's first female federal parliamentarian of Indian descent.
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Lisa Singh is currently the Director and CEO of the Australia India Institute, the University of Melbourne's centre dedicated to promoting support for and understanding of the bilateral relationship.
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Lisa Singh is the former Deputy Chair of the Australia India Council.
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Lisa Singh is a member of the University of Melbourne's Asialink advisory council.
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Lisa Singh was born in 1972, in Hobart, Tasmania, to a Fijian-Indian father and an English-Australian mother.
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Lisa Singh's father arrived in Australia as an international student in 1963.
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Lisa Singh attended St Mary's College, Elizabeth College, and the University of Tasmania, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Social Geography.
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Lisa Singh completed a Master of International Relations from Sydney's Macquarie University.
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Lisa Singh is the granddaughter of Ram Jati Lisa Singh OBE, who was a member of the Fijian Legislative Council in the 1960s.
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Lisa Singh's uncle, Raman Pratap Singh, was a Fijian politician and a past President of the National Federation Party and was a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 1999.
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Lisa Singh made an unsuccessful attempt to regain his seat in 2014.
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Lisa Singh's great-grandparents migrated from India to Fiji under the British Indian indenture system around the turn of the century.
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Lisa Singh worked in public relations and for the Australian Education Union as an industrial organiser.
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From 1999 to 2001, Lisa Singh was an adviser to Senator Sue Mackay.
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Lisa Singh then became the Director of the Tasmanian Working Women's Centre, where she campaigned for paid parental leave and equal pay.
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Lisa Singh was a member of Emily's List, and served on its National Executive in Australia.
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Lisa Singh became Hobart Citizen of the Year in 2004 for her work in the peace movement at the time of the Iraq war, especially in highlighting the plight of women and children in war.
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Lisa Singh has served as the President of the YWCA Tasmania, the President of the United Nations Association Tasmania and as a member of the Tasmania Women's Council.
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Lisa Singh was convenor of the Australian Republican Movement from 2004 to 2007.
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Lisa Singh was manager of the Tasmanian Government arts unit, arts@work, before being pre-selected by the Australian Labor Party for a House of Assembly seat.
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Lisa Singh was elected to the House of Assembly at the 2006 state election, as the member for Denison.
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Lisa Singh was sworn in at a ceremony at Government House on 26 November 2008.
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Lisa Singh was elected to the Australian Senate in the August 2010 federal election, making her the first person of South Asian descent to be elected to the Australian Parliament.
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Lisa Singh was the first Australian senator to win election over a high-ranked candidate on the same ticket since Bill Aylett in 1953, who was a Tasmanian ALP senator.
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Lisa Singh was defeated at the 2019 federal election after being again placed in the "unwinnable" fourth position on Labor's Tasmanian Senate ticket.
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Lisa Singh has been a strong advocate for building the Australia-India relationship.
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In 2016, Lisa Singh represented Australia at the United Nations General Assembly, New York, as a parliamentary delegate of the Australian mission to the United Nations.
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Lisa Singh has been a vocal opponent of Australia's offshore detention of asylum seekers.
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Lisa Singh has been invited to speak internationally on refugee policy including presenting at Harvard University's Kennedy School.
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Lisa Singh was invited by Harvard to contribute a chapter on the challenges of upholding children's rights in immigration policy in a Research Handbook on Child Migration.
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Lisa Singh served as a Commonwealth Secretariat Observer of the 2019 Solomon Islands General Elections.
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Lisa Singh served as a member of the Multinational Observer Group for the 2022 Fiji Elections and as a member of the Australian Government's New international development policy External Advisory Group.