1. Sarah Coral Hanson-Young is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since July 2008, representing the Australian Greens.
17 Facts About Sarah Hanson-Young
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Sarah Hanson-Young is the youngest woman to be elected to federal parliament, winning election at the age of 25 and taking office at the age of 26.
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Sarah Hanson-Young was the youngest person ever elected to the Senate, until Jordon Steele-John was elected in 2017.
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Sarah Hanson-Young graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Social Sciences in 2002.
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Sarah Hanson-Young was a candidate for the South Australian Legislative Council in the 2006 state election, ranked fourth on the Greens' ticket.
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Sarah Hanson-Young was elected senator for South Australia at the 2007 federal election.
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Sarah Hanson-Young became the focus of attention on 18 June 2009, when the Senate President ordered the removal of her two-year-old daughter from the Senate chamber during a division.
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Sarah Hanson-Young challenged Christine Milne for the Green deputy leadership in October 2010, but she was unsuccessful.
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Sarah Hanson-Young was critical of the Greens supporting the minority Labor Gillard government, and wanted the party to negotiate with the Liberal Party.
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Sarah Hanson-Young was re-elected to the Senate at the 2013 federal election and again at the 2016 double dissolution election.
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Sarah Hanson-Young retained the senior portfolio areas of education and finance.
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In July 2018, Liberal Democrats senator David Leyonhjelm suggested Sarah Hanson-Young should "stop shagging men", during a parliamentary debate on women's safety, in response to a parliamentary interjection by Sarah Hanson-Young which Leyonhjelm interpreted as her labelling "all men being rapists".
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Sarah Hanson-Young has described the idea of all men being rapists as "absurd".
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Sarah Hanson-Young called for Leyonhjelm to resign after Leyonhjelm refused to apologise and commenced crowd fundraising to pay for legal proceedings to sue him for defamation, claiming that any damages awarded would be donated to charity.
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In 2019, Court Justice Richard White ruled in favour of Sarah Hanson-Young, awarding her $120,000 in damages.
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In 2021, Sarah Hanson-Young was selected as a Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst.
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Sarah Hanson-Young was married to former local government councillor Zane Young; the couple divorced in 2011.