Catherine Hutchesson | |
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| Member of the South Australian House of Assembly for Waite | |
| Assumed office 19 March 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Sam Duluk |
| Majority | 54 per cent |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Labor |
| Education | Bachelor of Science |
| Alma mater | Flinders University |
| Committees | Natural Resources Access to Urinary Tract Infection Treatment |
| Website | ALP website |
Catherine Louise Hutchesson is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2022 state election, representing Waite. With a swing of 11.4 per cent, she defeated the independent member Sam Duluk, a former Liberal Party member who had held the seat since 2018. With the exception of Duluk's two years as an independent, the constituency had been held by the Liberal Party for the previous 29 years, and its predecessor, the seat of Mitcham, had only ever been held by Liberal or independent members dating back to 1938.
Hutchesson grew up within the boundaries of the current seat of Waite, has a Bachelor of Science, and prior to her election to Parliament had been a chef and then worked in the banking and finance sector where she was a union industrial advocate. She has also been active in the Country Fire Service as a volunteer firefighter. She was the unsuccessful Labor candidate in Waite in the 2018 state election.