{{Short description|Nauruan politician (born 1975)}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix =The Honourable |name = Gabrissa Hartman |honorific_suffix =MP |image = Gabrissa Hartman 2023 (cropped).jpg |caption = Hartman in 2023 |constituency_MP = Ubenide |parliament = Nauruan |majority = |predecessor = Valdon Dowiyogo |successor = |term_start = 2017 |term_end = 2019 |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|6|7|df=y}} |birth_place = Nauru |death_date = |death_place = |spouse = {{marriage|Carlson Bruno Hartman|1998}} |party = |relations = |children = |alma_mater = University of the South Pacific |occupation = |profession = |signature = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Gabrissa Shirani Hartman''' (''née'' '''Gioura'''; born 7 June 1975) is a Nauruan politician.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Newby|first=L. R.|date=25 June 1975|title=BIRTHS|url=http://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/gazettes/16af30e14a02cc48b9384405bb802fa2.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191117065201/https://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/gazettes/16af30e14a02cc48b9384405bb802fa2.pdf|archive-date=17 November 2019|journal=Republic of Nauru Government Gazette |issue=30|page=4}}</ref> She was a member of the Parliament of Nauru from 2017 to 2019, representing the Ubenide constituency.<ref name=pacwomen>{{cite web | url=http://pacificwomen.org/news/lawyer-gabrissa-hartman-is-naurus-new-member-of-parliament/ | title=Lawyer Gabrissa Hartman is Nauru's new Member of Parliament | publisher=Pacific Women | accessdate=5 November 2017}}</ref> She is the third woman to be elected to the Parliament of Nauru.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pacwip.org/future-elections/nauru/ | title=Nauru | publisher=Pacific Women in Politics | accessdate=5 November 2017}}</ref>
Hartman received her school education in Australia, attending junior boarding school at St Vincent's College in Sydney and completing her last year of high school at Presbyterian Ladies' College in Armidale. She then studied law at the University of South Pacific, attending their Emalus campus in Vanuatu. Hartman then practised law and was a former deputy clerk of parliament under Speaker Ludwig Scotty before entering politics. She became engaged to Carlson Bruno Hartman on 17 November 1997, and the two married on 23 January 1998.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Detenamo|first=Vinson|date=26 November 1997|title=ENGAGEMENT TO MARRY|url=http://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/gazettes/c5d3b5675cf99b5b28496eb33166c98e.pdf|journal=Republic of Nauru Government Gazette |issue=95|page=2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cain|first=M. B.|date=18 February 1998|title=MARRIAGES|url=http://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/gazettes/70c496dcf2ddadda692afb4d8a46e92f.pdf|journal=Republic of Nauru Government Gazette |issue=16|page=2}}</ref> She is a mother of five and the granddaughter of former interim President of Nauru Derog Gioura.<ref name=pacwomen /><ref name=nb>{{cite news | url=http://www.naurugov.nr/media/53140/nauru_20bulletin_20_01_26jan2017_20_28149_29.pdf | title=Ubenide by-election 19 January 2017 | work=Nauru Bulletin | date=26 January 2017 | accessdate=5 November 2017}}</ref>
She unsuccessfully contested the 2016 election as an independent, running on a platform of "good governance, gender equality and improved housing". She received media attention during that campaign for using Facebook - which was banned in Nauru - to campaign as a way of getting her message out in the face of opposition difficulties in obtaining TV and radio advertising.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/308242/nauru-candidate-uses-banned-facebook-to-campaign | title=Nauru candidate uses banned Facebook to campaign | work=Radio New Zealand | date=8 July 2016 | accessdate=5 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/programmes/datelinepacific/audio/201807455/campaign-interference-claims-dog-nauru-election | title=Campaign interference claims dog Nauru election | work=Radio New Zealand | date=8 July 2016 | accessdate=5 November 2017}}</ref> She had earlier been one of 18 co-plaintiffs in a Supreme Court challenge to laws which had increased the nomination fee from US$143 to US$1436.<ref>{{cite news | title=New election laws challenged | work=Cook Islands News | date=1 June 2016 }}</ref>
She was then elected to parliament at a by-election on 19 January 2017 following the death of Minister for Health, Sports and Fisheries Valdon Dowiyogo. Her first speech spoke of her hope for the country, commended her predecessor, and advocated improved law and order, improved housing, increasing the private sector, working on land rehabilitation, improving gender balance, and preparing for a "life beyond the processing centre".<ref name=pacwomen /><ref name=nb />
She lost her seat in the 2019 Nauruan parliamentary election.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/n/nauru/nauru2019.txt | title=REPUBLIC OF NAURU LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 24 AUGUST 2019 | publisher=Psephos | accessdate=22 August 2021}}</ref>
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