Arena, Franca, 1937-

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Franca Arena was born in Genoa, Italy, and migrated to Australia in 1959. She was the founding member of the Migrant Women's Association, president of the National Italian-Australian Women's Association, founder of the NSW Ethnic Community Council, won a Churchill Fellowship, and was Commissioner of the Education Commission of NSW. In 1981, she was the first woman from a non-English speaking background to be elected to the NSW Parliament, where she served for seventeen years. Arena resigned from the Australian Labor Party in November 1997, remaining in the Legislative Assembly as an Independent until her resignation from Parliament in March, 1999.

From the description of Papers of Franca Arena. 1997-1998. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224020989

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Australia--New South Wales
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Legislators
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State and Territory politicians
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Birth 1937-08-23

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