Senator Jenny McAllister is an Australian Labor Party Senator for the state of New South Wales and the Shadow Assistant Minister for Families and Communities.
Jenny is passionate about economic change for a just society, creating opportunities for community participation in politics, working towards gender equality and taking action to reduce our emissions and build a low carbon economy.
Despite being the season for love and giving the disastrous rollout of Financial Capability and Wellbeing grants continues to cause chaos for at risk communities.
After decades of enforced silence, business in our parliament was suspended last month to publicly acknowledge and apologise for the pain that was caused by institutional child sexual abuse.
I met with Save the Children’s Australian Youth Ambassadors who gave me a briefing on their recently published Manifesto for Change. The manifesto gives policy recommendations on issues affecting young people around the world including climate change, family violence and LGBTQI+ discrimination in schools.
