Editing Natasha Stott Despoja (section)

==Early life and education==
Stott Despoja was born in [[Adelaide]] on 9 September 1969.<ref name="APH">{{cite web|url=https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=3I6|title=Former Senator Natasha Stott Despoja|access-date=1 August 2023|website=[[Parliament of Australia]]}}</ref> She is the daughter of Shirley Stott Despoja, an Australian-born journalist and [[Mario Despoja]], who was from [[Croatia]] (then part of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]). She attended Stradbroke Primary and [[Pembroke School, Adelaide|Pembroke School]]<ref name="AFR 2013">{{cite web | title=A penny for Pembroke? | website=Australian Financial Review | date=29 November 2013 | url=https://www.afr.com/opinion/columns/a-penny-for-pembroke-20131128-ij92a | access-date=4 September 2018}}</ref> and later graduated from the [[University of Adelaide]] in 1991. She was President of the [[Students' Association of the University of Adelaide]] (SAUA) and the South Australian Women's Officer for the [[National Union of Students of Australia|National Union of Students]]. She then went on to work as a political advisor to Senator [[John Coulter (politician)|John Coulter]] and Senator [[Cheryl Kernot]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theartofhealing.com.au/aushero-natasha.html|title=Natasha Jessica Stott Despoja|website=theArtofHealing.com.au|year=2013|access-date=11 July 2019|archive-date=6 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406143442/https://www.theartofhealing.com.au/aushero-natasha.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>