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Marion Rose Scrymgour was born on 13 September 1960 in Darwin, Northern Territory; her mother was a Tiwi Islander and her father had been forcibly removed as a child from his home in Central Australia. She attended St Mary's Catholic Primary School and O'Loughlin College in Darwin, initially did not pursue tertiary education and worked in office administration roles, and later undertook correspondence courses as a mature-age student in book-keeping, accounting, administration and health economics. [source]
Special Envoy for Remote Communities in the Second Albanese ministry, sworn in on 13 May 2025. Australian Labor Party MP for Lingiari. [source]
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Speaking as Labor candidate for Lingiari, Scrymgour said she wants 'to be able to put the compassion back into politics, especially when we talk about important issues like Indigenous affairs and immigration.'
Record last updated 2026-08-13.
