Meg Lees

**Meg Heather Lees** AO (née **Francis**, an haife ta a ranar 19 ga Oktoba 1948) tsohuwar iyyar ta lalace yadda ya kamata bayan Zaben tarayya na Australiya na 2007 wanda ya ga Sanatoci hudu na karshe sun rasa kujerun su.

Bayan da Natasha Stott Despoja ta tsige ta, ta bar jam'iyyar don zama a matsayin sanata mai zaman kanta a shekara ta 2002, ta karɓi sunan jam'iyyar Australian Progressive Alliance daga shekara ta 2003 har zuwa lokacinta ya ƙare a shekara ta 2005, bayan da aka ci ta a Zaben 2004.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Lees ga Heather Francis, malamin kiɗa, da Edwin Francis, mai ginawa, a Dutsen Riverview, New South Wales . Lees ita ce babba cikin yara huɗu, kuma tana da 'yan'uwa maza uku.

Mahaifiyar Lees, Heather Francis, ta bayyana ta a matsayin "mai ƙarfi" kuma "ko da yaushe tana da hankalinta. " Lees tana da sha'awar wasanni tun tana ƙarama, tana wasan hockey, wasan Tennis, da wasan softball.

Lees ta girma ne a cikin Cocin Katolika na Manzanni, addini mai tsattsauran ra'ayi, kuma ba a yarda ta haɗu da wasu yara ba. A lokacin da take da shekaru 13, ta ki halartar hidimar Cocin. "Ina da abokai a makarantar sakandare ta Kudancin Strathfield wadanda ke zuwa Cocin Anglican don haka na fara tafiya tare da su. "  Mahaifinta "Ba ta da matukar sha'awa, " cewa tana halartar hidimar Cocin Anglica, amma ta ji cewa "Mafi kyau cewa tana zuwa coci fiye da kada ta je coci kwata-kwata. "

### Ayyukan da suka gabata
A shekara ta 1965, yana da shekaru 16, Lees ya bar makaranta kuma ya zama mataimakin dakin gwaje-gwaje a masana'antun Australiya, wanda ke Lidcombe. Ba da daɗewa ba ta yi aiki daidai da na babban likitan sunadarai, wanda ya haifar da ANI ta biya don karatun ta. Daga baya ta bar ANI bayan shugabanta ya gaya mata cewa saboda ita mace ce ba za ta taba samun ci gaba ba.

Lees ta kammala karatu tare da difloma a ilimin jiki a shekarar 1969 daga Kwalejin Malamai ta Sydney . An tura ta Makarantar Sakandare ta Ingleburn . A can ta sadu da Keith Lees, kuma sun yi aure a shekara ta 1971. Su biyu sun fara fafatawa a gasar tsere a matakin kasa, suna tsere da nasu Mini Cooper S a Amaroo Park da Oran Park Raceway . 

A shekara ta 1974, ma'auratan suka koma Dutsen Gambier a Kudancin Australia. Lees ya fara koyarwa a makarantar sakandare ta Mount Gambier . An haifi 'ya'yanta mata biyu a cikin 1975 da 1977. Bayan dawowa daga hutun haihuwa, shugaban makarantar ya gaya wa Lees ya dawo cikakken lokaci, ko ya yi murabus, kamar yadda Lees da farko ya so ya ci gaba da koyarwa na ɗan lokaci.[1]

A shekara ta 1979, Lees ta ci gaba da koyarwa a makarantar firamare ta Our Lady of the Pines a Nangwarry . 

A lokacin gobarar daji ta Ash Laraba a 1983, Lees ta sami kanta a tsakiyar gobarar yayin tuki kusa da Nangwarry. Lees daga baya ya bayyana a cikin wata hira da The Sydney Morning Herald, "Na yi wa kaina alkawari cewa idan na fita daga wannan rana - kuma mutane da yawa ba su yi ba - to da gaske zan yi wani abu da rayuwata".[1]

### Farkon a cikin 'yan Democrat na Australiya
Watanni shida bayan tsohon Ministan Liberal Don Chipp ya haifi 'yan Democrat, duka Meg da Keith sun sanya hannu suna nuna ra'ayoyinsu masu karfi na muhalli. Bayan ta yi aiki a cikin ƙungiyoyin iko na ciki na jam'iyyar, Lees ta zama shugabar jam'iyyar Democrat a farkon shekarun 1980, kuma a wannan lokacin ta yi hamayya da kujerun Jiha da Tarayya ba tare da nasara ba.

Kafin Janine Haines ta yi murabus daga Majalisar Dattijai, an rubuta Lees a kan ma'aikatanta don shirya nadin zuwa Majalisar Dattijan.