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{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = Christabel Chamarette
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|OAM}}
| image = [[File:Christabel Chamarette.jpg|300x300px]]
| title = [[Australian Senate|Senator]] for [[Western Australia]]
| term_start = 12 March 1992
| term_end = 30 June 1996
| predecessor = [[Jo Vallentine]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1948|5|1}}
| birth_place = [[Hyderabad State]]
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| nationality = [[Indian Australian]]
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| party = [[Greens WA]]
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| occupation = Community worker
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'''Christabel Marguerite Alain Chamarette''', sometimes known as '''Christabel Bridge''' (born 1 May 1948) is a former [[Greens Western Australia|Greens]] [[Australian Senate|Senator]] for [[Western Australia]] from 1992 to 1996.<ref name=parlinfo>{{Cite Au Senate |Sen id=chamarette-christabel-marguerite-alain |name=CHAMARETTE, Christabel Marguerite Alain (1948– ) |first=Gwynneth |last=Singleton |access-date=30 November 2022}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Born in [[Hyderabad]], [[Dominion of India|India]] in 1948,<ref name=parlinfo/> Chamarette is of [[Anglo-Indian]]<ref>James Jupp, 2001, ''The Australian People: an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins'', [[Melbourne]], [[Cambridge University Press]], pp. 437, 438.</ref> and [[French Huguenot]] ancestry.<ref name=sundayage>{{cite news |title=Who are the Green senators? |work=Sunday Age |date=1993-08-22 |page=6}}</ref> She has worked as a community worker in [[Bangladesh]] and later as a clinical psychologist at [[Fremantle Prison]].<ref name=sundayage/>

==Politics==

Chamarette was appointed to the Senate in 1992, following the resignation of [[Jo Vallentine]].<ref name=parlinfo/> She was opposed to privatising [[Telstra]]<ref>{{cite news |first=Paul |last=Chamberlin |title=Telstra senate warning |work=[[The Age]] |date=1996-03-12 |page=6}}</ref> and delayed the [[Mabo v Queensland (No 2)|Mabo]] legislation by demanding the inclusion of mineral rights in the compensation package for native title holders.<ref>{{cite news |title=The limits of power |work=The Age |page=19 |date=1993-12-11}}</ref>

She was defeated at the [[1996 Australian Senate election|1996 general election]]; her term ended on 30 June 1996.<ref name=parlinfo/> Chamarette said that when working in the Senate, she thought it was the most important work of her life, but she now refers to it as simply "useful experience".<ref>{{cite news |first=Helen |last=Crompton |title=Vision ends ex-senator's lavender days |work=[[The West Australian]] |date=2002-11-16}}</ref>

==After politics==

She was an expert consultant to the Department of Justice and was appointed to the Western Australian [[parole]] board in 2002. She was one of four members who resigned in 2005 in protest against the State Government's response to the [[Mahoney inquiry]].<ref name=parole>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Dodd |title=Parole board members resign |work=[[The Australian]] |date=2005-12-29 |page=5}}</ref><ref>Mahoney, Hon. Dennis [http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/publications/publications.nsf/DocByAgency/4E6CCB9EE555DE8E482570C20012DB68/$file/Management+of+Offenders+Inquiry.pdf Inquiry into the Management of Offenders in Custody and in the Community] Parliament of Western Australia, November 2005 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190343/http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/publications/publications.nsf/DocByAgency/4E6CCB9EE555DE8E482570C20012DB68/$file/Management+of+Offenders+Inquiry.pdf |date=4 March 2016}}</ref>

Chamarette was awarded the [[Order of Australia|Medal of the Order of Australia]] in the [[2025 Australia Day Honours]] for "service to community health, particularly as a psychologist".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ms Christabel Marguerite CHAMARETTE |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/3044757 |access-date=2025-01-26 |publisher=Australian Honours Search Facility}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://greens.org.au/wa/person/christabel-chamarette Greens WA profile]
* [https://biography.senate.gov.au/chamarette-christabel-marguerite-alain/ Australian Parliament biography]

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