Karin MacDonald (born 16 May 1969) is an Australian

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

and was a member of the

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representing the electorate of Brindabella for the Labor Party. MacDonald was elected at the 2001 ACT general election and retired at the 2008 ACT general election. MacDonald is Jewish. Her maternal grandparents were German Jews who fled just prior to the outbreak of WW2. Her father converted to Judaism when he married her mother.

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