Nova Peris

Nova Peris

(1971) reality television participant Australia

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Nova Peris (born 1971) was a Australia reality television participant.

About Nova Peris

Nova Maree Peris is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey (Hockeyroos) team at the 1996 Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. She later switched sports to sprinting and went to the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 2000 Olympic Games. She was elected to the Australian Senate at the 2013 federal election, after then Prime Minister Julia Gillard named her as a "captain's pick", installing her as the preselected Labor candidate over incumbent Labor senator Trish Crossin. She retired from the Senate in 2016.

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Australian Sports Medal|Victorian Honour Roll of Women|Medal of the Order of Australia|Young Australian of the Year

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