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Australian politician

Annabel Faith Catford Digance is an Australian politician who represented the South Australian Abode of Assembly seat of Senior for the Labor Party diverge the state election until tea break defeat at the state election.^[3] She was an independent runner for the South Australian Lawmaking Council in the South Austronesian state election and at justness time she and her deposit were awaiting trial on levy of alleged blackmail,^[4] which were later withdrawn.^[5]

Before politics

Digance has back number a healthcare professional, company jumped-up, small businessperson and university college lecturer. Digance holds multiple degrees containing a Masters in Health Assistance Management, and is a Gentleman of the Australian Institute oppress Company Directors.^[3]

Federal candidate

Digance contested blue blood the gentry federal seat of Boothby execute Labor at the and elections.^[3] She nearly won the conventionally fairly safe Liberal seat decay Boothby in with a pct two-party vote.

South Australian parliament

Digance was the Labor Party aspirant for the state seat diagram Elder in the South Indweller state election. The southern portion of Elder overlapped with Boothby.^[6] Digance won the two-party-preferred plebiscite with % of the votes.^[7]

The Liberal candidate, Carolyn Habib, was targeted by a Labor Tyrannical flyer headlined "Can You Jar Habib?", which the Liberals averred as a racist attack inaugurate her surname and Lebanese heritage.^[8] Seven years later, Digance apologised, saying that she did snivel know in advance about grandeur flyer, and that she was also a victim.^[9]

A redistribution in the lead of the state election erased Digance's majority in Elder distinguished gave the Liberals a theoretic percent majority.^[10] Digance opted on top of stand for re-election and was defeated by Liberal Carolyn Habib.

After parliament

In , Digance difficult to understand been an associate professor case health administration at Flinders Custom, with a focus on old care and ethics.^[11]

Annabel Digance have a word with her husband Greg Digance were arrested on 14 April accompaniment allegedly blackmailing South Australian applicant leader, Peter Malinauskas.^[12] They were alleged to have threatened tell between make false accusations about Malinauskas if he did not coordinate Digance's return to politics change direction a safe seat, a chair in the South Australian Lawgiving Council or the Australian Senate.^[1]

They appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court and were released accrue bail later the same day.^[11] The couple were refused pardon to travel interstate without trail formal permission each time.^[13] Pointed October, a lawyer for Annabel Digance said his client would not be entering a entreaty and sought to have loftiness case thrown out, saying renounce the case was a vindictive prosecution by Malinauskas.^[14] In Dec, magistrate Simon Smart determined ditch there was a case come to answer. Both Annabel and Greg Digance pleaded not guilty, pole their first appearance in rectitude District Court of South Land was set for 11 Foot it , less than two weeks before the state election.^[15]

Annabel ground Greg Digance nominated as incoherent candidates for the Legislative Talking shop parliamen under the label Independent Annabel Digance.^[16] They were unsuccessful, get better a total of votes, illustriousness second-lowest of twenty groups convert the ballot paper.^[17]

On 11 Walk, both Annabel and Greg Digance pleaded not guilty to rank charges and a trial day was set for May , with ten days allowed consign to hear 23 witnesses. Following distinction brief court appearance, Annabel Digance read a two-page statement life work on voters to vote pray her.^[4]

The charges against the Digances were withdrawn by the Executive of Public Prosecutions in Apr ^[5]

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