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Charmaine Clarke (born 28 December 1966), is an Indigenous activist https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/invasion-day-marked-around-australia and Victorian Greens political candidate from 1997 - 1999. She is a Gunditjmara woman [] and a member of the Stolen Generation [] from Victoria.

In Australia's 1998 Federal Election she lead the Victorian Greens Senate Ticket with the goal to become Australia's first Indigenous woman ever elected to Federal Parliament in Australia. Australian_Greens_Victoria

During her campaign Charmaine raised issues of Indigenous progress and human rights, calling for Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Sovereignty, real progress towards a Treaty, overturning mandatory sentencing laws and dedicated seats for Indigenous peoples in Federal Parliament. A model that exists in New Zealand. http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22media%2Fpressrel%2F2014HNC03037673%22;src1=sm1

Although unsuccessful, Charmaine also ran as a candidate in the Ballarat Provincial by-election in 1999. http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE3219b.htm

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