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Catherine Hutchesson

Australian Labor Party · South Australia · South Australian House of Assembly · Waite (SA) · incumbent

Catherine Louise Hutchesson grew up in Glenalta, where she has lived for more than forty years. She studied community services at the Panorama campus of TAFE South Australia, earned a Bachelor of Science at Flinders University, and completed a Certificate III in Commercial Cookery at the William Angliss Institute of TAFE. Before politics she worked at the Blackwood Fitness Centre, as a head chef, and later as an industrial advocate for the Finance Sector Union; no birth date was found in retrieved snippets. [source]

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Abortion & reproductive policy verified

Voted against Family First MLC Sarah Game's bill to restrict access to late-term abortions in the House of Assembly on 18 June 2026; the bill was defeated in the lower house 36 votes to 9.

Freedom of speech verified

Voted to agree to the Legislative Council's amendment deleting 'or recklessly' from the new obstruction offence in the Summary Offences (Obstruction of Public Places) Amendment Bill 2023, which amended the obstruction offence in the Summary Offences Act 1953, narrowing it to intentional conduct (House of Assembly, in committee, 31 May 2023; Ayes 23, Noes 11). This division was on the Council's amendment, not on the bill's passage.

Record last updated 2026-08-13.