Natalie Bennett


Natalie Louise Bennett is a British politician and journalist who has led the Green Party of England and Wales since September 2012. Born and raised in Australia, she began her career as a journalist with regional newspapers in New South Wales before leaving in 1995 for Thailand, where she worked for Australian Volunteers International and the Bangkok Post newspaper over the next four years. Since settling in Britain in 1999 she has contributed to the Guardian, Independent and Times newspapers. Her election as leader of the Greens came six years after she joined the party in January 2006.

Bennett was born onFebruary 1966 in Eastwood, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, the daughter of John and Joy Bennett. She was born to working class teenage parents a parttime secretary and an apprentice carpenter. Her mother was killed in a car crash in 1989.

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