Rachel Siewert

Senator Rachel Siewert BSc(Agric)
Senator for Western Australia
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2005
Constituency	Western Australia
Personal details
Born	4 November 1961 (1961-11-04) Sydney
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Australian Greens
Website	RachelSiewert.org.au

Rachel Mary Siewert (born 4 November 1961) is an Australian Greens politician who was elected to represent Western Australia in the Australian Senate at the 2004 federal election.

She holds a BSc (Agric) from the University of Western Australia and worked with the Western Australian Department of Agriculture as a research officer in 1984–87. She was prominently involved in the establishment and running of the Conservation Council of Western Australia, and was awarded the Bessie Rischbieth Conservation Award in 2003.

Senate committees

Her membership of parliamentary committees includes:

Standing committees

• Selection of Bills, from 9 August 2005
• Procedure, from 1 July 2008 to 3 February 2009
• Scrutiny of Bills, from 22 September 2008

Legislative and General-Purpose standing committees

• Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts: Legislation Committee, from 5 October 2005 to 11 September 2006
• Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: References Committee (chair), from 7 November 2005 to 11 September 2006
• Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport, from 11 September 2006 to 23 August 2008
• Community Affairs from 1 July 2008

Select committee

• Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities, from 20 March 2008

Joint Statutory committee

• Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account, from 1 July 2005 to 23 March 2006

External links

• Official website
• Senator Siewert's YouTube Channel

Party political offices
Preceded by New office	Federal Parliamentary Whip of the Australian Greens 2008 – Present	Succeeded by incumbent