Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Ingrid Stitt | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLC |
Birth Place: | United Kingdom |
Office1: | Minister for Workplace Safety |
Premier1: | Daniel Andrews |
Term Start1: | 29 September 2020 |
Predecessor1: | Jill Hennessy |
Office2: | Minister for Early Childhood |
Premier2: | Daniel Andrews |
Term Start2: | 29 September 2020 |
Predecessor2: | New ministry |
Office3: | Member of the Legislative Council for Western Metropolitan Region |
Term Start3: | 24 November 2018 |
Party: | Australian Labor Party |
Ingrid Stitt (born 1965/1966) is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 2018, representing Western Metropolitan Region.[1] She is a former union leader who won preselection over Jane Garrett in November 2017.[2]
In September 2020, Stitt was appointed Minister for Workplace Safety and Minister for Early Childhood in the Second Andrews Ministry.[3]
Stitt is a member of the Labor Left faction of the Labor Party.[4]
Stitt was born in the United Kingdom to artists Peter and Daphne Stitt.[5] [6] In 1974, when Ingrid was 8,[7] the Stitts moved to Australia when Peter took up a lecturing job at the Prahran College of the Arts in Melbourne.