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Nova peris biography
Nova Peris
Australian politician and sportswoman
Nova Maree PerisOAM (born 25 February ) is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey (Hockeyroos) team at the Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
She later switched sports to sprinting and went to the Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games. She was elected to the Australian Senate at the federal election, after then Prime Minister Julia Gillard named her as a "captain's pick", installing her as the preselected Labor candidate over incumbent Labor senator Trish Crossin.
She retired from the Senate in
Early life and education
Peris was born in Darwin, Northern Territory.[1] Her biological father was Indigenous rights activist John Christophersen, although she had no contact with him between the ages of 2 and [2] Her mother, Joan, had been removed from her own mother, and raised in the Catholic missio