Karin MacDonald

{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}} '''Karin MacDonald''' (born 16 May 1969) is an Australian politician and was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Brindabella for the Labor Party. MacDonald was elected at the 2001 ACT general election and retired at the 2008 ACT general election.<ref name="ACTLA">{{cite web |url=http://www.legassembly.act.gov.au/education/memlist/memlist.pdf |title=Members of the ACT Legislative Assembly |publisher=ACT Legislative Assembly |year=2008 |access-date=2010-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217044100/http://www.legassembly.act.gov.au/education/memlist/memlist.pdf |archive-date=17 February 2011 }}</ref>

MacDonald is Jewish. Her maternal grandparents were German Jews who fled just prior to the outbreak of WW2. Her father converted to Judaism when he married her mother.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hansard |url=http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/2002/pdfs/20011211.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040610225950/http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/2002/pdfs/20011211.pdf |archive-date=10 June 2004 |date=11 December 2001}}</ref>

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