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Deb Foskey (Deborah Jane Foskey) was born on 12 November, 1949 in Terang, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian politician (1949–2020). Discover Deb Foskey's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As Deborah Jane Foskey
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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 12 November, 1949
Birthday 12 November
Birthplace Terang, Victoria, Australia
Date of death 1 May, 2020
Died Place Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1949

Deborah Jane Foskey (12 November 1949 – 1 May 2020) was an Australian politician with the ACT Greens.

Foskey was born at Terang in rural Western Victoria, the second of a family of four.

Her father worked for the Victorian Department of Agriculture as a dairy supervisor and later moved to Bacchus Marsh.

Deb was educated at Bacchus Marsh State School and Bacchus Marsh High School where she was dux in her final year.

Foskey studied a Bachelor of Arts in English and philosophy and a Diploma in Education at the University of Melbourne where she boarded at Medley Hall, and worked as a primary and secondary school teacher.

1970

In the 1970s and 1980s, she was instrumental in the formation of several national parks protecting old growth forests through her work in the Concerned Residents of East Gippsland.

In Canberra Foskey continued to campaign for protection of forests in SE NSW and East Gippsland, as well as working on forest policy.

Foskey continued campaigning on forest protection, sustainability and climate change issues in her later years.

1980

She later lived in Cabanandra, East Gippsland and eventually moved with her children to the Australian Capital Territory in the 1980s.

1986

In 1986 her son Brandon died in the Murrumbidgee River at Casuarina Sands in the ACT.

1990

Foskey was involved in the establishment phase of the ACT Greens in the early 1990s, and was an office bearer of the ACT Greens and the Australian Greens at various times during the 1990s.

1992

In 1992, she undertook a Masters of Letters in human ecology at the Australian National University, looking at Canberra's development through a political and ecological lens, which she finished in 1994.

1996

In 1996, she undertook a Doctorate of Philosophy in political science and international relations at ANU, looking at the role of community movements in the framing of the Program of Action for the United Nations Conference on Population and Development, which she completed in 2003.

1998

She ran for the Senate in the ACT for the Greens in 1998, and for the ACT Legislative Assembly seat of Molonglo in 2001.

1999

Foskey established WTOwatch in the ACT, as part of the anti-globalisation movement that grew around the Seattle WTO protests in 1999.

2004

She was elected to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly in the 2004 election for the electorate of Molonglo as the only Green in a parliament of majority Labor Party governance, which she talks about in her inaugural speech.

2005

In 2005, she courted controversy by refusing to leave her public subsidised house despite earning an MP's wage of over $100,000.

2008

Foskey worked to raise issues of sustainability, democracy and compassion in her time in the Assembly, until her retirement in 2008.

After retiring from politics in the ACT, Foskey returned to Cabanandra in East Gippsland in late 2008.

2009

She worked as a consultant at the Centre for Rural Communities from 2009 and at Tubbut Neighbourhood House from 2011.

2016

Foskey stood as a candidate in various elections to ensure that environmental issues were aired during the campaigns, including East Gippsland council elections in 2016.

2018

She ran as a Victorian Greens candidate at the 2018 Victorian state election for the seat of East Gippsland, but was unsuccessful.

Climate change was a core issue for her in this campaign.

2019

She also unsuccessfully stood as the Greens candidate for Gippsland at the 2019 Australian federal election.

She was Chair of the Orbost Exhibition Centre in late 2019.

Foskey had two daughters.

In mid-2019, Foskey was diagnosed with lung cancer, and began chemotherapy in Bairnsdale.

During her treatment, she was informed that her Cabanandra home had been destroyed in a fire.

2020

She died on 1 May 2020, aged 70.