page_title: Natalie Bennett
section_title: Political positions and standpoints
hierarchical_section_title: Natalie Bennett / Political positions and standpoints
caption_attribution_description: Natalie Bennett - Take Back Our World! - Global Justice Now
context_page_description: Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle is a British politician and journalist. She led the Green Party of England and Wales from September 2012 to September 2016. Bennett was given a peerage in Theresa May's 2019 resignation honours.
  Born and raised in Australia, she began her career as a journalist with regional newspapers in New South Wales before leaving in 1995 for Thailand, where she worked for Australian Volunteers International and the Bangkok Post newspaper over the next four years. Since settling in Britain in 1999 she has contributed to the Guardian, Independent and Times newspapers. Her election as leader of the Greens came six years after she joined the party in January 2006.
context_section_description: Bennett has considered herself a feminist since she was a young child, claiming that it was her "first politics". She also founded the Green Party women's group and was a trustee of the Fawcett Society between 2010 and 2014. She became interested in environmental issues when she obtained a degree in Agricultural Sciences. She is in favour of abolishing the monarchy. In an April 2015 interview, she said that she supports the Green Party policy of an economic and cultural boycott of Israel, and also thought that Britain should cease arms sales to Saudi Arabia. She has also voiced support for polygamy and polyamorous relationships.
caption: Bennett in "Take Back Our World! - Global Justice Now" in 2015.
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