What is Dawn Lawrie?
[[File:Dawn Lawrie.jpg|thumb|200px|Lawrie in 1976]] '''Alline Dawn Lawrie''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 3 November 1938) is an [[Australia]]n politician. She served as a member of the [[Northern Territory Legislative Assembly]] from 1974 to 1983 for [[Electoral division of Nightcliff|Nightcliff]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wmoa.com.au/collection/herstory-archive/lawrie|title=Lawrie, Alline Dawn|access-date=25 February 2020|publisher=Women's Museum of Australia|archive-date=25 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225174146/https://wmoa.com.au/collection/herstory-archive/lawrie|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the first assembly of the [[Northern Territory]], she and fellow [[Independent politician|independent]] [[Ron Withnall]] were the only non-[[Country Liberal Party]] members. From 1988 to 1990, she served as administrator of the [[Cocos (Keeling) Islands]]. Lawrie was born in [[Melbourne, Victoria]]. In the 1950s, she moved to [[Alice Springs, Northern Territory]]. She moved to [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] in 1960. Her daughter, [[Delia Lawrie]] was the leader of the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] and [[Leader of the Opposition (Northern Territory)|Opposition]] in the Northern Territory. ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrie, Dawn}} [[Category:1938 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Independent politicians in Australia]] [[Category:Politicians from Melbourne]] [[Category:Order of Australia]] [[Category:Politicians from Darwin, Northern Territory]] [[Category:Members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly]] {{Bio-stub}}