Oly Carlson is an Australian politician from the

Country Liberal Party The Country Liberal Party of the Northern Territory (CLP), commonly known as the Country Liberals, is a centre-right and conservative political party in Australia's Northern Territory. In territory politics, it operates in a two-party system wi ...

. In the

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, she was elected to the

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in Wanguri. Carlson's father arrived in Darwin in 1937 and survived the Japanese

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in 1942. She previously worked for the

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in Darwin.

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