What is Nova Peris?
[[File:Nova Peris 2012 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Nova Peris, 2012]] '''Nova Maree Peris''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} (born 25 February 1971) is an [[Australia]]n former sportswoman and politician. She won a gold medal with the Australian women's [[field hockey]] team at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in [[Atlanta]]. She was the first [[Aboriginal Australian]] to win a gold medal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2289b.htm|title=Peris, Nova Maree (1971–)|work=Australian Women's Register|access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> She also won two gold medals in [[track and field]] at the 1998 [[Commonwealth Games]] in [[Kuala Lumpur]]. In 1997, she was named [[Young Australian of the Year]]. Some time after her sporting career ended, Peris entered politics. She is a member of the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]]. She served as a [[Australian Senate|Senator]] for the [[Northern Territory]] from 2013 to 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=CDK|title=Former Senator Nova Peris OAM|publisher=[[Parliament of Australia]]|access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> She was the first [[Indigenous Australian]] woman elected to federal parliament.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/07/nova-peris-indigenous-woman-parliament|title=Nova Peris becomes first Indigenous woman in federal parliament|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=7 September 2013|author=Laughland, Oliver|access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> Peris was born in [[Darwin, Northern Territory]]. Her mother, Joan, was a member of the [[Stolen Generations]]. Joan was taken away from her mother and raised in a [[Catholic]] mission on [[Melville Island (Australia)|Melville Island]]. Peris and Sean Kneebone had a daughter, Jessica, born in 1990. She was married to Kneebone from 1995 to 2001. In 2002, she married sprinter [[Daniel Batman]]. The couple had two children, and split in 2010. Batman died in a car crash in June 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/athlete-batman-