PATRICIA ANDERSON
(Patricia Anderson)
An Aborigine herself, she had co-authored a major study of 45 aboriginal communities of Australia’s vast Northern Territory—the alcohol abuse was so great that young pre teen girls were trading sex for alcohol, parents in large numbers were too drunk to care for children. Few children attended school. Many were physically abused. The Government responded by attempting to ban alcohol in the aboriginal communities and withholding government welfare payments from parents who would not send their children to school. At the time there were 470,000 aborigines in Australia’s 20 million population.
Patricia "Patti" Anderson is an American politician from the State of Minnesota and a member of the Republican Party. She served as the 17th State Auditor of Minnesota, from 2003 to 2007. Prior to this, she was Mayor of Eagan, Minnesota for four years after serving as a city council member for eight years. She also owned Capitol Companies, a direct mail and third party verification business. She is also a former national committeewoman for Minnesota to the Republican National Committee.
