Kristine Klugman
Australian academic
Kristine Kay Klugman (nee Barnard) is an Australian author, academic and the co-founder of Civil Liberties Australia. Prior to her role as inaugural President of Civil Liberties Australia, she had a career in research, politics and public service, including serving as the first female President of the Trust of the Australian Museum (1984-1988). She was also the first female board member of the Board of Fire Commissioners of NSW in 1982 (then the NSW Fire Brigade, now Fire and Rescue New South Wales), she was later appointed the first full-time deputy president in the organisation's then-100-year history.
Early life
Klugman was born 18 June 1941 in Newcastle, New South Wales before moving to Hobart, Tasmania as a child. She was educated at The Friends' School, Hobart, where her mother was school librarian. She graduated as a nurse from Royal Hobart Hospital and for a year joined a Quaker humanitarian mission to Hong Kong island before returning to complete a midwifery qualification at Crown Street Women's Hospital in Sydney.
She married Richard Klugman ('Dick Klugman'), a general practitioner medico and for 20 years a Member of the House of Representatives for Prospect, with whom she had three children: Jeni Klugman, Julie and Kathy in the 1960s. While her children were young she studied at Macquarie University for her first two degrees where she and John Faulkner (later Senator for NSW 1989-2015 ) founded the university's Labor Club.
Klugman stood unsuccessfully for the NSW state seat of Northcott in 1978.
She joined the Trust of The Australian Museum as a member in 1978 and became its first-ever female president (1984-1988).
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