Ingrid Stitt

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}

{{Use Australian English|date=December 2018}}

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|honorific-prefix = The Honourable

|name = Ingrid Stitt

|honorific-suffix = MLC

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|birth_place = United Kingdom

|office1 = Minister for Workplace Safety

|premier1 = Daniel Andrews

|term_start1 = 29 September 2020

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|predecessor1 = Jill Hennessy

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|office2 = Minister for Early Childhood

|premier2 = Daniel Andrews

|term_start2 = 29 September 2020

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|predecessor2 = New ministry

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|office3 = Member of the Legislative Council for Western Metropolitan Region

|term_start3 = 24 November 2018

|party = Australian Labor Party

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Ingrid Stitt (born 1965/1966) is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 2018, representing Western Metropolitan Region.{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/vic-election-2018/results/wmet/|title=Western Metropolitan|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation}} She is a former union leader who won preselection over Jane Garrett in November 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-15/jane-garrett-former-vic-cabinet-minister-loses-preselection/9154852|title=Victorian Labor MPs ask 'what's the party thinking?' as Garrett loses preselection|last=Willingham|first=Richard|date=2017-11-15|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-06-19}}

In September 2020, Stitt was appointed Minister for Workplace Safety and Minister for Early Childhood in the Second Andrews Ministry.{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-29/ingrid-stitt-fills-cabinet-spot-left-by-jenny-mikakos/12714256|title=Ingrid Stitt joins Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' ministry following departure of Jenny Mikakos|publisher=ABC News|date=29 September 2020|access-date=29 September 2020}}

Stitt is a member of the Labor Left faction of the Labor Party.{{Cite web |title= |url=https://mcusercontent.com/b8a9164fb231dc63930099167/files/106fabcd-6f5a-6380-6219-3a7ac2e87b91/Legislative_Committee.pdf}}

Early life

Stitt was born in the United Kingdom to artists Peter and Daphne Stitt.[https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/feisty-celt-revealed-his-inner-self-through-art-20071005-ge5z68.html Feisty Celt revealed his inner-self through art][https://www.pressreader.com/australia/alpine-observer/20180808/281526521876617 Daphne Stitt] In 1974, when Ingrid was 8,{{cite web|url=https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/ingrid-stitt-joins-ministry/|title= Ingrid Stitt Joins The Ministry|publisher=Premier of Victoria|date=29 September 2020|access-date=29 September 2020}} the Stitts moved to Australia when Peter took up a lecturing job at the Prahran College of the Arts in Melbourne.

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