- Catryna Bilyk
Infobox Politician
name = Catryna Bilyk
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office = Senator for Tasmania
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1959|2|7|df=y
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nationality = Australian flagicon|Australia
party =Australian Labor Party
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footnotes =Catryna Louise Bilyk (born 7 February 1959) is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the
Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state ofTasmania .Bilyk was elected to serve a six-year term in the Senate at the 2007 federal election, after being placed in the third position on the
Australian Labor Party 'sTasmania n ticket. She was elected to the sixth Senate seat for Tasmania, on preferences distributed fromAndrew Wilkie , theAustralian Greens ' second candidate for the Senate in Tasmania in the 2007 election. [Australian Electoral Commission, [http://results.aec.gov.au/13745/website/External/SenateStateDop-13745-TAS.pdf Tasmanian preference count, 2007 election] , retrieved January 2008] It was second time lucky for Bilyk, who had also been preselected in third spot on the Labor Senate ticket in Tasmania at the 2001 federal election, but failed to win a seat. [cite web | title=2001 Federal Election Results | publisher=Australian Electoral Commission | url=http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/federal_elections/2001/results/SEN_TAS.htm]Bilyk was born in
Hobart . She worked as an industrial officer fortrade union s and has been ALP National Vice-President. She is married with two adult children. [Australian Labor Party, [http://www.alp.net.au/people/tas/bilyk_catryna.php Ms Catryna Bilyk - Senator Elect for Tasmania] , retrieved January 2008] [Australian Services Union, [http://www.asu.asn.au/media/general/20020327_catryna.html ASU official appointed ALP Vice-President] , retrieved January 2008]References
External links
* [http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?ID=15460&TABLE=BIOGS Parliamentary biography]
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NAME = Bilyk, Catryna Louise
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH = 7 February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH =Hobart ,Tasmania
DATE OF DEATH = living
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