Lisa Singh

Lisa Maria Singh is an Australian politician who is a Labor Party member of the Australian Senate for Tasmania. She was previously a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the division of Denison from 2006 to 2010. The granddaughter of an IndoFijian member of the Parliament of Fiji, Singh is Australias first federal parliamentarian of IndoFijian ancestry.

Singh was bornFebruary 1972 in Hobart, Tasmania to a FijianIndian father and an English Australian mother. Her father arrived in Australia as an international student in 1963. Singh attended St Marys College and Elizabeth College before leaving Tasmania to live and work in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. She later returned to Tasmania to study at the University of Tasmania, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Social Geography, and also holds a Master of International Relations from Macquarie University. Singh became a mother to two sons whilst at university.

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