[1] Born in Hyderabad, India in 1948,[1] Chamarette is of Anglo-Indian[2] and French Huguenot ancestry.

[3] She has worked as a community worker in Bangladesh and later as a clinical psychologist at Fremantle Prison.

[1] She was opposed to privatising Telstra[4] and delayed the Mabo legislation by demanding the inclusion of mineral rights in the compensation package for native title holders.

[6] She was an expert consultant to the Department of Justice and was appointed to the Western Australian parole board in 2002.

She was one of four members who resigned in 2005 in protest against the State Government's response to the Mahoney inquiry.