26-475: Sowada is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Karin Sowada (born 1961), Australian archaeologist and former politician Alphonsus Augustus Sowada (1933–2014), American Roman Catholic bishop and cultural anthropologist [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Sowada . If an internal link intending to refer to
52-527: A brief return to political life when she was nominated to become an Australian Republican Movement delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention on whether Australia should become a republic . She became a prominent spokesperson for the Australian Republican Movement during the convention, vigorously opposing direct election of the president and supporting the movement's sometimes-controversial leader, Malcolm Turnbull . After
78-513: A major clash with party founder Don Chipp , who threatened to resign from the party because of the direction the party was taking with Sowada in charge of industrial relations. When Coulter officially took over as leader in October, Sowada lost the industrial relations portfolio. Soon after, she crossed the floor to vote with the opposition Liberal Party against a move to ban political advertising during elections. In 1992, Sowada helped to set up
104-458: A mentoring program for the intellectually disabled in Sydney , and was assigned the services of then student politician Stott Despoja as a staffer. In June that year, Sowada accused her party of neglecting its traditional focus on social issues to concentrate on environmental issues under Coulter, a noted environmentalist. She was active in the education debate, which had taken centre stage owing to
130-574: A record 13 years (to the day) in government resulting from the 1993 election . At the election, the Coalition won a slim majority of the two-party vote, and slashed Labor's majority from 24 seats to nine, most of the gains made in Victoria. However, it only managed a two-party swing of 0.9 percent, which was not nearly enough to deliver the additional seven seats the Coalition needed to make Peacock Prime Minister. Despite having regained much of what
156-545: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sowada&oldid=1025946990 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Karin Sowada Karin Nicole Sowada (born 1 November 1961)
182-744: Is an Australian archaeologist and former politician. She served two years as an Australian Democrats senator for New South Wales between 1991 and 1993. In 1998, she was a republican delegate to the Constitutional Convention . From 1996 to 2005, she was the assistant curator of the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney . From 2008 to 2015, she was chief executive officer of the Anglican Deaconess Institution Sydney. Sowada
208-685: The 1984 election , and the Vallentine Peace Group at the 1987 election. Until 2010, this was the only post-war election where a third party (excluding splinter state parties and the Nationals) has won more than 10% of the primary vote for elections to the Australian House of Representatives. It also saw the Nationals' leader, Charles Blunt , defeated in his own seat of Richmond by Labor challenger Neville Newell —only
234-661: The University of Sydney . She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in archaeology in 1989. In 1982, Sowada joined the Australian Democrats . She stood for public office the following year at the age of 21, when she was selected as the Democrat candidate for the House of Representatives seat of Phillip at the 1983 election , polling 2.8% of the vote. (See Electoral results for the Division of Phillip#Elections in
260-413: The late 80s/early 90s recession , they won a record fourth successive election and a record 10 years in government with Bob Hawke as leader, a level of political success not previously seen by federal Labor. The election was to be Hawke's last as Prime Minister and Labor leader, he was replaced by Paul Keating on 20 December 1991 who would go on to lead Labor to win a record fifth successive election and
286-469: The soufflé rise twice?" and calling him, in reference to Peacock's name, "all feathers and no meat". Hawke's government was in political trouble, with high interest rates and a financial crisis in Victoria. The controversy over the Multifunction Polis boiled over during the federal election campaign. Peacock, declared that a future Coalition Government would abandon the project. He shared
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#1732801282558312-419: The 1980s ) She was again the Democrat candidate when then Prime Minister Bob Hawke called a double dissolution election in 1984 , and improved her vote, gaining 5.5%. Sowada made a final bid for the seat at the 1987 election . The Democrats were polling well federally at the time, and her campaign received some media attention, resulting in her polling 6.8% of the vote, which gained her some attention within
338-660: The Asian "enclave" fears of RSL president Alf Garland and others. The following day, The Australian newspaper ran a headline "Peacock a 'danger in the Lodge ' ". In February 1990, the Liberal Party's deputy Senate leader Austin Lewis was sacked from shadow cabinet after suggesting Peacock would be removed as leader if the Coalition failed to win the election. Lewis's comments reportedly reignited leadership tensions within
364-778: The Convention put forward a republic model to be voted upon at the 1999 referendum , Sowada was appointed to a three-person committee directing the official "Yes" campaign, along with Liberal Party figure Andrew Robb and Peter Barron, a Labor Party adviser. Sowada was undertaking a postgraduate degree at the University of Sydney when she was appointed to the Senate, and spent the 1991-92 parliamentary recess in an archaeological dig in Jordan . After her electoral defeat, she resumed her studies, gaining her PhD in Egyptian archaeology from
390-662: The Democrat New South Wales Senate ticket for the 1990 election , behind Vicki Bourne . In 1991, Paul McLean resigned from the Senate after leader Janet Powell was replaced by John Coulter . Sowada was nominated by the party to fill the casual vacancy and was sworn in as a Senator in September 1991. She was, at the time, the youngest female senator in Australian history (a distinction which later passed to Natasha Stott Despoja ). Sowada
416-529: The Liberal Party and were influential in Hawke deciding to set an election date in March, two months before the last possible date for the election. Members listed in italics did not contest their seat at this election. Where redistributions occurred, the pre-1990 margin represents the redistributed margin. The 1990 election resulted in a modest swing to the opposition Coalition. Though Labor had to contend with
442-567: The University of Sydney in May 2002. Sowada undertakes archeological fieldwork and research in Egypt and Jordan and has published in scholarly books, academic journals and popular magazines. She has lectured around Australia and appeared as a media commentator on archaeology and Egyptology. From 1996 to 2005, she was the assistant curator of the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney. She
468-559: The draconian tertiary-education reforms initiated by former Hawke education minister, John Dawkins . Sowada faced her first and only electoral test at the 1993 election . After a month-long count, she was defeated by the National Party's Sandy Macdonald . She blamed party leader Coulter for the swing against the Democrats, which saw her lose her seat and called for him to be replaced by Cheryl Kernot . In 1997, Sowada made
494-577: The non-Labor forces had lost three years earlier, Peacock was forced to resign after the election. This election saw the peak of the Australian Democrats ' popularity under Janine Haines , and a WA Greens candidate won a seat in the Australian Senate for the first time – although the successful candidate, Jo Vallentine , was already a two-term senator, having previously won a seat for the Nuclear Disarmament Party at
520-436: The party in advance of her 1990 Senate bid. Sowada served as the Democrat campaign manager for the 1988 NSW State election and the 1990 federal election. An investigation was held into irregularities in campaign funding at the time, but Sowada was not involved and initiated legal action against media organisations who suggested otherwise at the time. Sowada then shifted her attention to the Senate, and gained second place on
546-481: The re-election of the Hawke government for a fourth successive term, the first time the ALP had won four consecutive terms. After John Howard lost the 1987 election to Hawke, Andrew Peacock was elected Deputy Leader in a show of party unity. In May 1989, Peacock's supporters mounted a successful leadership challenge which returned Peacock to the leadership. Hawke's Treasurer, Keating, ridiculed Peacock by asking: "Can
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#1732801282558572-806: The role in February 2015. She has been elected to a number of committees in the Anglican Church Sydney Diocese, including the Standing Committee, Sydney Synod and General Synod. She also acted as a lobbyist for Capitol Research, a small corporate communications company run by her and her husband. Sowada married then-Democrat staffer Armon Hicks in July 1991. They have two daughters, born in 1997 and 2004. 1990 Australian federal election Bob Hawke Labor Bob Hawke Labor The 1990 Australian federal election
598-486: Was assigned the role of spokesperson on industrial relations, and she controversially backed the Hawke government's move to enshrine the right to strike in legislation. While this stand earned her much praise from the trade union movement – in September, she became the first female politician and first Democrat to address the biennial congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions – it also sparked
624-563: Was born in Sydney in November 1961, the first of three children to Valentin and Helen Sowada. Her father was a photographer whose picture "The Rigger" was published by the Sydney Morning Herald in 1965. She went to Bronte Public School and Randwick North High School and started her working life as a strapper in the thoroughbred horse racing industry. She briefly worked as an insurance broker before commencing studies at
650-544: Was controversially passed over for the job when it was revised while she was on maternity leave and she had to reapply for it. She is a researcher in Egyptian archaeology with Macquarie University and is a specialist in the foreign relations of Egypt and the Near East during the Bronze Age . In 2008, Sowada was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Anglican Deaconess Institution Sydney. She stepped down from
676-519: Was held in Australia on 24 March 1990. All 148 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party , led by Bob Hawke , defeated the opposition Liberal Party of Australia , led by Andrew Peacock , with its coalition partner, the National Party of Australia , led by Charles Blunt , despite losing the nationwide popular and two-party-preferred vote . The result saw
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