Catherine Hutchesson

Hutchesson grew up in Glenalta and has lived in the district for more than forty years. She worked at the Blackwood Fitness Centre,[1] studied community service at the Panorama campus of TAFE South Australia, and studied at Flinders University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science.[2][1] She also studied at the Regency Hotel School, where she qualified as a chef.[3] After moving to the banking and finance sector she became an industrial advocate for the Finance Sector Union. She is also a volunteer firefighter with the Country Fire Service (CFS), and has been vice-president of the Upper Sturt CFS Brigade, and the representative of her brigade to the CFS Volunteers' Association and delegate to the CFS Group that includes Upper Sturt. She was president of the Upper Sturt Soldiers' Memorial Hall committee, and is also involved with the Country Women's Association.[2][1]

Hutchesson was the Labor Party candidate for the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Waite at the 2018 state election,[3] when she received 42.2 per cent of the two-party-preferred vote (2PP) from 23.5 per cent of the first-preference votes.[4] A post-election redistribution notionally lifted her first-preference vote to 24 per cent, and a 2PP of 42.6 per cent.[3] The constituency had been held by the Liberal Party since 1993,[5] its predecessor, the seat of Mitcham, had only ever been held by Liberal or independent members dating back to 1938,[1] and was regarded as a blue-ribbon Liberal seat.[5]

She was again the Labor Party candidate for Waite at the 2022 state election, when she received 54 per cent of the 2PP, achieving an 11.4 per cent swing to the Labor Party. Her share of the first-preference votes was 26.6 per cent.[3] Since 3 May 2022 she has been a member of the parliamentary Natural Resources Committee. On 1 December of the same year she was appointed to the Access to Urinary Tract Infection Treatment Committee.[2]

• "Catherine Louise Hutchesson". Members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
• "Labor Makes History in Waite". Power FM. 25 March 2022. Archived from the original on 27 March 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
• "State Election Results – District Results for Waite". Electoral Commission of South Australia. 5 April 2018.
• "Steven Marshall clings on to seat but Liberal stronghold falls to Labor". ABC News. 24 March 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
• "Waite (*) (Key Seat) - SA Election 2022". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2022. Retrieved 23 November 2022.