(1971-02-25) 25 February 1971 (age 53) Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Political party
Australian Labor Party
Spouse(s)
Sean Kneebone (1995–2001) Daniel Batman (2002–2010) Scott Appleton (2012–present)
Sports career
Height
170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Medal record
Representing Australia
Women's Field Hockey
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta
Team Competition
World Cup
1994 Dublin
Team Competition
Champions Trophy
1993 Amstelveen
Team Competition
1995 Mar del Plata
Team Competition
Women's Athletics
Commonwealth Games
1998 Kuala Lumpur
200 metres
1998 Kuala Lumpur
4x100m relay
Updated on 22 January 2013
Nova Maree PerisOAM (born 25 February 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey (Hockeyroos) team at the 1996 Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. She later switched sports to sprinting and went to the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 2000 Olympic Games. She was elected to the Australian Senate at the 2013 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 2016.
Nova Maree Peris OAM (born 25 February 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey...
December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019. "'We are brilliant people': NovaPeris receives Lifetime Achievement at Dreamtime Awards 2019". NITV. Archived...
December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019. "'We are brilliant people': NovaPeris receives Lifetime Achievement at Dreamtime Awards 2019". NITV. Archived...
Aboriginal Olympic champion (the first was Freeman's 4 × 400 teammate NovaPeris-Kneebone who won for field hockey four years earlier in Atlanta). After...
player and former Australian senator NovaPeris. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Peris qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics...
supporting the former Olympian Gold Medallist and Aboriginal activist NovaPeris. On 20 October 2015 she became a director of the Indigenous Land and Sea...
scare campaign" that was "riddled with a litany of errors". Labor Senator NovaPeris announces she will not nominate to contest her Northern Territory Senate...
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Gregory". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 1 June 2023. "Biography for PERIS, Nova Maree, OAM". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 1 June 2023. "Senator...
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Mat Rogers Michael Crocker Moana Hope Monika Radulovic Nathan Freeman NovaPeris Ross Clarke-Jones Russell Hantz Samantha Gash Sandra Diaz-Twine Sharni...
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puts hat in the ring for NovaPeris Senate seat". ABC News. Australia. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016. "Election 2016: Peris replacement Malarndirri...
1994 in 1994 1994 Anna Bown 1995 Poppy King 1996 Rebecca Chambers 1997 NovaPeris-Kneebone OAM 1998 Tan Le 1999 Bryan Gaensler 2000 Ian Thorpe OAM 2001...
sued for defamation by NovaPeris, former federal government senator for the NT, who is also Aboriginal. Price had accused Peris of protecting sexual predators...
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2016. The first Aboriginal woman to be elected to Federal Parliament was NovaPeris in 2013 after being selected as a Northern Territory Senate candidate...
teeshirts bearing the flag through his own website, Aboriginal former senator NovaPeris, a leader of a "free the flag" campaign, wrote to the Governor-General...
First Indigenous Australian to win a Gold Medal at the Olympic Games: NovaPeris (hockey). First Indigenous Australian to play Test cricket: Jason Gillespie...
Archived from the original on 22 April 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2011. NovaPeris elected as first Indigenous woman in Federal Parliament Archived 9 September...
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