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Mary Edith Porter AM (born 8 August 1942) is a Labor member of the ACT Assembly. She was first elected to the Assembly in October 2004. Prior to that, she was CEO of the Volunteering Association (now Volunteering ACT) from 1993 until October 2004 Born in England of a Scottish background, Mary arrived in Australia when she was 12. In 1963 Mary graduated as a nurse from Wollongong Hospital and went on to work in New South Wales, Queensland and in the Aboriginal Community of Oenpelli, Northern Territory. In 1967 she again graduated from Wollongong Hospital, this time as a midwife. Mary returned to the Northern Territory and used her midwifery skills in many remote and isolated Aboriginal community's before accepting the role of sister in charge of the Dhupuma Residential College for Aboriginal students in Gove. In 1979 Mary moved to Canberra and a change of career working for the Federal Member for Canberra, Ros Kelly. Mary represents the electorate of Ginninderra and is a member of ACT Labor's Right Faction Centre Coalition. As a member of the ACT Assembly she prepared and introduced legislation to provide a statutory framework for retirement villages in the ACT. Her efforts were strongly supported by the ACT Retirement Village Residents Association under the presidency of Pam Graudenz and eventually saw the passage of legislation by the Legislative Assembly on 22 August 2012. The legislation came into effect on 4 March 2013.〔http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/a/2012-38/default.asp〕 ==References== *(Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly – Members ) Retrieved 2008-05-12 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「Mary Porter (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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