Olive Zakharov
Olive Zakharov | |
|---|---|
| Senator for Victoria | |
| In office 5 March 1983 – 6 March 1995 | |
| Succeeded by | Jacinta Collins |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alice Olive Hay 19 March 1929 Kew, Victoria |
| Died | 6 March 1995 (aged 65) Melbourne, Victoria |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| Occupation | Psychiatric nurse |
Alice Olive Zakharov (19 March 1929 – 6 March 1995) was an Australian politician. Zakharov was elected as an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate in 1983.
Former Senator Graham Richardson, a leader of the party's right faction, once stated that Zakharov "works hard on social issues in the chamber, but hides her light under a bushel far too successfully". She was re-elected in 1984, 1987, and 1993, and was in the midst of her final term in the Senate when she was killed in an automobile accident in early 1995.