Kimberley Kitching

2022 - 3 - 11

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Labor senator Kimberley Kitching dies suddenly in Melbourne aged 52 (The Guardian)

Federal leader Anthony Albanese says 'the Labor family is in shock tonight at the tragic news' that Kitching had died of a suspected heart attack.

“Senator Kitching was a practising Catholic and we witnessed her authentic faith in the life of the parliament. “As well as her innumerable accolades she has been a wonderful friend to myself, my wife Chloe and our family. She clearly loved her country and it genuinely showed,” Morrison said in a statement. She celebrated the passage of those laws late last year. George Brandis, Australia’s high commissioner to the UK and a former Senate colleague, said Kitching was a brilliant senator whose “commitment to upholding and securing Australia’s interests were unquestioned”. Kimberley will be missed by us all.”

Kimberley Kitching mourned across political divide as stress of ... (ABC News)

Former Labor leader Bill Shorten is questioning how much stress party politics and the preselection process put on his close friend Senator Kitching in the ...

"Kimberley looked fit, she had got fitter in recent times, and there was no history of a heart condition and that is why it's such a tremendous shock for the entire Labor family today." "Politics is a difficult business — there are pressures on people in politics and that is part of what we do — but I certainly think that this was totally unexpected," he told the ABC. "And we sat with a couple of other of dear friends of Kimberley and Andrew on the side of the road as we waited for the undertaker's van to turn up." Mr Shorten was a close friend of Senator Kitching and her husband, Andrew Landeryou, and had been called to the suburban street in Strathmore where her body lay. Senator Kitching was facing a preselection challenge ahead of the looming federal election, with members of Victorian Labor's right faction refusing to endorse her spot on the party's Senate ticket as recently as Tuesday. Labor senator Kimberley Kitching had been under immense stress due to a bitter factional brawl within the Victorian branch of the Labor Party, and her political mentor Bill Shorten is questioning whether it could have contributed to her sudden death.

Labor senator Kimberley Kitching dies suddenly (Mandurah Mail)

Australian politics is in shock after Labor senator Kimberley Kitching died suddenly, aged 52. Opposition leader Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and former Labor leader Bill Shorten have led tributes to the Victorian senator, ...

My thoughts are with her family and friends.— Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash (@SenatorCash) March 10, 2022 She was a great advocate for Australia and ensuring that we maintain the freedoms we all enjoy. My heart goes out to her family and loved ones. While we came from different corners to the political ring we shared values of liberty, human dignity and a belief in the ability of public policy to create public good.— Jane Hume (@SenatorHume) March 10, 2022 Awful, awful news to hear that Kimberley has gone. Kimberley will be missed by us all.— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) March 10, 2022 She clearly loved her country and it genuinely showed." Kimberley was an internationalist who spoke fluent French, loved champagne and friends, and never seemed to take anything too seriously. She had yet to be preselected on Labor's Victorian Senate ticket for the upcoming federal election. Shocked and devastated to hear of the tragic death of my Labor colleague and friend, Senator Kimberley Kitching.— Alicia Payne MP (@AliciaPayneMP) Can't believe she's no longer with us. The Labor family is in shock tonight at the tragic news that our friend and colleague Senator Kimberley Kitching has died suddenly in Melbourne. My sincere condolences to her family.

Complex and charming, Kimberley Kitching proved her critics wrong (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull derided her Senate appointment as a “union stitch-up”; her Labor enemies, speaking anonymously, were even more scathing.

When I had a near-death accident in New York in 2020, she was among the first people to text and say she was glad I had survived. A common refrain among Kitching’s enemies on the left was that she didn’t believe in anything beyond winning factional battles. Kitching had been in Parliament for less than a year and was trying to lie low after her controversial arrival in the capital. The person I encountered was beguiling, curious and had a mischievous sense of humour. I was working as a press gallery reporter and thought Kitching would make a fascinating subject for a Good Weekend magazine profile. When Kimberley Kitching entered Federal Parliament in October 2016, she was lugging enough political baggage to fill a commercial airliner.

VIDEO: Floods bring Morrison more trouble; Labor's Kimberley ... (The Conversation AU)

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Kimberley Kitching dead: Victorian Labor senator suffers suspected ... (7NEWS.com.au)

“The Labor family is in shock tonight at the tragic news that our friend and colleague Senator Kimberley Kitching has died suddenly in Melbourne,” he said on ...

“I come here to represent everyday Australian people: the working Australians, the families, the students, the hospital cleaners, the retail workers, the mortgage holders, the renters, the mums and dads, the 4am shift workers, the nurses, the police, the firefighters and the factory workers.” “As a former Queenslander who grew up swimming, a proud holder of a bronze medallion, who continues to enjoy swimming in Victoria’s chillier waters, I am daunted yet delighted to be thrown in the deep end right here and now,” she said. Former Labor leader Bill Shorten said her death was “an immense loss to Labor and the nation”. “Smart, hardworking, dedicated, funny and fun to be aroundI wish I had told her that,” she said. “Our deepest condolences go to her family, friends and colleagues.” “Deeply saddened at the news Victorian Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching passed away suddenly today, aged just 52,” he said.

Kitching a Labor warrior taken too soon (Daily Telegraph)

You would imagine as MPs read the tributes and obituaries that poured out to their colleague Kimberley Kitching since her sudden death on Thursday, ...