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Place of Birth: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
About Catryna Bilyk
- Catryna Louise Bilyk (née Goninon; born 7 February 1959) is an Australian politician.
- She has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Tasmania. 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's Tasmanian ticket.
- She was elected to the sixth Senate seat for Tasmania, on preferences distributed from Andrew Wilkie, the Australian Greens' second candidate for the Senate in Tasmania in the 2007 election.
- 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.Bilyk was born in Hobart.
- She worked as an industrial officer for the Australian Services Union, a researcher for psychiatric pioneer Eric Cunningham Dax, an early childhood educator, and an advisor to Tasmanian Labor Ministers David Crean, Ken Bacon (politician) and David Llewellyn (Australian politician).
- She has been ALP National Vice-President.
- She is married with two adult children. On 27 February 2016, Catryna Bilyk announced that she supports same-sex marriage.
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