Biography for DENMAN, Kay JanetSenator for Tasmania 1993-2005
Australian Labor Party
Parliamentary service
Chosen by the Parliament of Tasmania on 24.8.1993 under section 15 of the Constitution to represent that State in the Senate, vice the Hon. MC Tate (resigned) (term ended 30.6.1999). Elected 1998. Retired prior to general elections (term ended 30.6.2005)
Committee service
Senate Standing: Appropriations and Staffing from 1.9.93 to 2.5.96; Publications from 10.2.94 to 17.2.94; Library from 9.2.95 to 22.4.99; Selection of Bills from 27.9.95 to 30.12.95 and from 24.9.97 to 11.2.02; Senators' Interests from 2.5.96 (Chair from 25.6.96) to 30.6.05.
Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Community Affairs from 30.8.93 to 10.10.94; Community Affairs: References Committee from 10.10.94 to 30.5.95, from 23.8.95 to 19.9.95 and from 2.5.96 to 29.5.97 and Legislation Committee from 10.10.94 to 30.5.95, from 23.8.95 to 19.9.95 and from 2.5.96 to 30.6.05; Finance and Public Administration from 7.9.93 to 10.10.94; Rural and Regional Affairs from 18.10.93 to 28.10.93; Employment, Education and Training: References Committee from 8.3.95 to 29.4.96 and from 29.5.97 to 9.11.98 and Legislation Committee from 8.3.95 (Chair from 21.3.95) to 29.4.96.
Participating member, Community Affairs: Legislation Committee from 31.5.95 to 23.8.95 and from 17.10.95 to 29.4.96 and References Committee from 31.5.95 to 23.8.95, from 17.10.95 to 29.4.96 and from 16.2.99 to 30.6.05; Participating member, Employment, Education and Training: References Committee from 28.5.96 to 29.5.97; Participating member, Employment, Workplace Relations and Education: References Committee from 14.2.02 to 30.6.05; Participating member, Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: Legislation Committee from 28.6.01 to 11.2.02; Participating member, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: References Committee from 14.2.02 to 30.6.05.
Senate Select: Public Interest Whistleblowing from 10.2.94 to 31.8.94; Unresolved Whistleblower Cases from 1.12.94 to 26.10.95; Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Electronic Technologies from 29.5.96 to 26.6.97.
Senate Estimates: C from 30.8.93 to 10.10.94; B on 24.5.94 and 25.5.94.
Joint Statutory: Public Accounts from 30.9.93 to 17.3.94; National Crime Authority from 8.12.98 to 1.1.03; Australian Crime Commission from 1.1.03 to 30.6.05.
Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 10.2.94 to 29.1.96; Treaties from 31.5.96 to 12.12.96.
Conferences, delegations and visits
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to 94th IPU Conference, Bucharest, and bilateral visit to Slovenia, October 1995; 96th IPU Conference, Beijing, China, and bilateral visits to Vietnam and the Philippines, September-October 1996.
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to the Philippines and Japan, May-June 1999.
Parliamentary party positions
Deputy Government Whip in the Senate from 18.9.95 to 11.3.96.
Deputy Opposition Whip in the Senate from 24.9.97 to 22.11.01.
Party positions
President, ALP Devonport Branch 1987-88.
Secretary, ALP Devonport Branch 1989-91.
Member, ALP National Executive from 1990.
Member, ALP State Administrative Committee (Tas) 1991-92.
Personal
Born 22.7.1937, Latrobe, Tas.
Qualifications and occupation before entering federal Parliament
BEd, DipSpEd (Tas).
Teacher 1968-89.
Private Secretary to the Premier of Tasmania, the Hon. M Field, MHA 1989-92.
Manager, Devonport Community Legal Centre 1993.