DORINDA COX OUTLINES GOALS IN THE SENATE

The Greens’ Dorinda Cox has made history by becoming the first Indigenous Female Senator from Western Australia.

She was elected at a joint-sitting of State Parliament this week to replace outgoing Greens Senator Rachel Siewert who earlier announced her retirement.

The Yamatji-Noongar woman spent 17 years as a Police Officer and later a campaigner against domestic violence.

“I think it's probably a series of motivations and probably a culmination of lots of frustrations. So I belong history of activism particularly for First Nations people, but I think as a public servant an

someone who's lobbied governments and being an activists you kind of get sick of the closing door. Sorry, we can't do that. And so I think it's a culmination of that 20 years working two governments and working

alongside government. I think a couple years ago I decided the political life is the only way we're going to get change.

The Senator-Elect stressed her connections to the North West of W.A for her new Senate Portfolio.

“So the Senate is the place of the people when I can't stress that enough that the voices of of every day Australians needs to be heard in this planet. So we don't make laws in this country unless we should be hearing how these impacts on every day Australians. So as a West Australian sanitized that very seriously and I've I've got some very non traditional green portfolio.

So I'll have Mining and Industry which is obviously very important in the Northwest and it's not a it's not a portfolio that's about anti mining. So I just want to stress that morning a jobs in the Northwest and I'm very very committed to ensuring that we have a good strong economy and that we we transition a Workforce into the green mining or the green economy, which is going to to lead us into.”