The Federal Executive has been working with a number of Tasmanian party members and are about to re-establish the Tasmanian State Branch. Details of the impending Tasmanian State Conference will be advised shortly after the Federal Election on 21st August 2010
All interested parties are invited to contact the Tasmanian Acting Secretary:
"I am standing for the DLP to give Tasmanians a fresh voice in the 2010 Federal Election. Democracy is meaningless if there is no one you want to vote for, and I hope to give disaffected Tasmanian voters a common sense alternative."
Mishka is a thirty-seven year-old photographer and mother of two living in Longford, near Launceston in Tasmania's beautiful North.
She holds a First Class Honours degree in American Studies from Monash University, as well as a Master of Arts in History from Brown University in the United States. She has also studied at UCLA, the University of Tasmania, and George Washington University.
Mishka has many strings to her bow and has worked as a humanitarian aid worker in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990’s conflict, a system tester and project manager for IBM, an administration and IT manager, and even as a dog groomer. In her spare time, she has put in hundreds of volunteer hours as a first aid officer with St John Ambulance, as a senior deckhand (on the Lady Nelson) with the Tasmanian Sail Training Association, as an English tutor to recent immigrants, and in various roles for the Catholic Church and other Christian organisations.
She is married to Joseph Gora, who is a social worker in the area of drug and alcohol rehabilitation, and they have two children, Henrietta and Tristan. When she isn’t taking photographs or spending time with her family, Mishka likes to cook, sew, and write the occasional novel. Both her writing and photography have been recognised in the form of a number of minor awards.
