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Place of Birth: Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
About Cheryl Kernot
- Cheryl Zena Kernot (née Paton, formerly Young; born 5 December 1948) is an Australian politician, academic, and political activist.
- She was a member of the Australian Senate representing Queensland for the Australian Democrats from 1990 to 1997, and the fifth leader of the Australian Democrats from 1993 to 1997.
- In 1997, she resigned from the Australian Democrats, joined the Australian Labor Party, and won the seat of Dickson at the 1998 federal election.
- She was defeated at the 2001 federal election.
- Kernot was an unsuccessful independent candidate to represent New South Wales in the Australian Senate in the 2010 federal election.
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