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Patricia Irene (Irina) Dunn (born 1948) is an Australian writer, social activist and filmmaker, who served in the Australian Senate between 1988 and 1990. Born in Shanghai, Dunn grew up in Australia and studied at the University of Sydney. In 1988 she became a Senator representing the Nuclear Disarmament Party. She was chosen following the disqualification from parliament of the man originally elected from that party in the 1987 election, Robert Wood, who was ruled ineligible as he did not hold Australian citizenship. Following her refusal to resign to allow Wood to return to the Senate once he had become a citizen, she was expelled from the party and sat as an independent. She was defeated at the 1990 election. Dunn was the Executive Director of the New South Wales Writers' Centre from December 1992 to 2008. ==Background== Dunn was born in Shanghai, China〔Parliamentary handbook online, (Irina Dunn Biography ), retrieved July 2007〕 around the time of the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War, and her family, associated with Chiang Kai-Shek, fled to Hong Kong. They later emigrated to Australia, where Dunn attended school and was naturalised as an Australian citizen in the 1970s. After graduating in Arts from the University of Sydney, Dunn held several jobs, including as an editor at Pergamon Press. It was here that Dunn first drew publicity for activism. Dunn complained to a recruitment firm about sexism in their advertisements, however her attachment of her business card to the letter got her fired, an action which became front page news in Sydney.〔''Sydney Morning Herald'', 12 January 1977, p. 1〕 She was later partly reinstated.〔''Sydney Morning Herald'', 26 January 1977, p. 3〕 In the early 1980s she married Brett Collins, a convicted bank robber turned prison activist and co-ordinator of Justice Action,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.communityjusticecoalition.org/home/cjc-signatories/brett-collins )〕 whom she met through her work editing a prison magazine. They separated within a few years and subsequently divorced.〔''Sydney Morning Herald'', 20 October 1984〕 Throughout this period Dunn was engaged with political and social issues. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Irina Dunn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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