Natasha stott despoja husband
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About the Commissioner
Natasha Stott Despoja AO has been appointed as the Commissioner of the Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence.
In July 2013, she was named the founding Chair of Our Watch, the national foundation to prevent violence against women and children. She was appointed life patron of Our Watch in August 2022.
Ms Stott Despoja served as national Ambassador for Women and Girls from 2013 to 2016.
She was a member of the World Bank's Gender Advisory Council from 2015 to 2017.
She is currently a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and served on the United Nations High Level Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents.
A former Leader of the Australian Democrats and Senator for South Australia, Ms Stott Despoja is also the author of the book 'On Violence'.
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Natasha Stott Despoja
Australian politician
In this article, the surname is Stott Despoja, not Despoja.
Natasha Jessica Stott DespojaAO (born 9 September 1969) is an Australian diplomat and former politician. Starting her career in student politics, she became an advisor to the Australian Democrats and was appointed to the Australian Senate in 1995 at the age of 26. At the time, she was the youngest woman to serve in federal Parliament. She went on to become deputy leader of the Democrats in 1997 and then federal leader from 2001 to 2002. She retired from the Senate in 2008 as the longest-serving senator from her party.
She has remained active in the public sphere, working with government and non-profit organisations. She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in 2019 for her work on gender equality. Stott Despoja was the founding chair of Our Watch, a national foundation to prevent violence against women and children, and served as national Ambassador for Women and Girls from 2013 to 2016. She was also a member of the World Bank Gender Advisory Council fro
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Shirley Stott Despoja
Australian journalist
Shirley Margaret Stott DespojaOAM (born 1936) is an Australian journalist. She was the first female journalist in the general newsroom of The Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide, and was the paper's first arts editor.[1]
Biography
Born Shirley Margaret Stott to a working-class family in Sydney, she studied at St George Girls High School before commencing, but not completing, an art's degree. Stott left university without a degree after being offered a journalism role at The Anglican, a newspaper published by the Anglican Church of Australia, working for editor Francis James.[2]
With limited career prospects in Sydney, Stott moved to The Canberra Times, and then later was offered a position at The Advertiser in Adelaide—she was the first woman to work on general news for the paper, instead of the "women's pages". She returned to Canberra when she married, but when her marriage ended, she was asked back to The Advertiser by editor Don Riddell as the paper's first arts editor, at a time when the a
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