Kay Janet Denman (born 22 July 1937) is an
Australian politician. She was an
Australian Labor Party
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member of the
Australian Senate
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for the state of
Tasmania
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from 1993 to 2005.
Denman was born in
Latrobe, Tasmania and raised in
Railton. She was educated at Railton Primary School and Devonport High School, before graduating with a Bachelor of Education and Diploma of Special Education from the
University of Tasmania
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. She was a school teacher from 1958 to 1961, took a break in which she had two children, and returned to teaching from 1964 to 1989. Denman was then private secretary to
Premier of Tasmania
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Michael Field from 1989 to 1992 and manager of the Devonport Community Legal Centre in 1993. She was an inaugural member of the Mersey Leven Family Day Care committee, in which she was a strong advocate for access to day care for children with disabilities, and was also involved with Family Planning Tasmania. Denman joined the Labor Party in the early 1980s and was the president of the Labor Party's
Devonport branch and a member of its
national executive
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