Carole Frances Marple (née Whitelaw)[1] (born 24 December 1941, died 31 January 2025) was a former Australian politician.
[2] She was educated at Brighton, becoming a primary teacher specialising in helping children with learning difficulties.
A member of the Australian Labor Party, she ran as a candidate for several federal elections, contesting the safe Coalition seat of Indi in 1980 and 1983 and running in the unwinnable fourth position on the Victorian Labor Senate ticket in 1984 and 1990.
In 1996 she was defeated for preselection by Lynne Kosky of the party's Socialist Left faction.
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