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Australian politician (born 1959)

Catryna Louise Bilyk (née Goninon; born 7 February 1959) is an Australian politician.

She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a Senator for Tasmania since 2008.

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Early life

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 and David Llewellyn.^[1] She has also been ALP National Vice-President.^[2] She is married with two adult children.

Senate

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