Sarah Hansen-Young

Sarah Hansen-Young
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Sarah Hansen-Young is an Australian Senator-elect and member of the South Australian Greens. At the 2007 federal election, she became the youngest person ever elected to the Senate, and the youngest woman ever elected to Australian Parliament, as well as South Australia's first Greens Senator.

As a young, student-activist politician, and president of the Students' Association of the University of Adelaide, Hansen-Young has been active in community groups and NGOs on environmental, human rights, women's and youth related issues, primarily through Amnesty International. She worked on several community projects in Orbost including the establishment of the Orbost Youth Centre.

In 1999 she was awarded "Australia Day Young Citizen of the Year" for Gippsland, Victoria. She was the Environment Officer of the Students' Association of the University of Adelaide in 2001 and in 2002 was elected its President â€" its first independent president since Natasha Stott Despoja in 1990. Hansen-Young is also a student, partway through a postgraduate law degree and holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the University of Adelaide. She is currently employed as the Community Campaigner and South Australian and Northern Territory Regional Coordinator for Amnesty International SA-NT, and has worked as a Greens media advisor.