Senator Jenny McAllister is an Australian Labor Party Senator for the state of New South Wales and Labor's Shadow Cabinet Secretary and Shadow Assistant Minister to the Labor Leader in the Senate.
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.
Labor will introduce into the parliament a private member’s bill to give Australian women access to 10 days of paid domestic violence leave.
From the Blue Mountains to the Southern Highlands and from Batemans Bay up to the Northern Rivers and Northern Tablelands, this bushfire season has been devastating for my home state of New South Wales, with 4.9 million hectares of land having been burnt.
Fiona Phillips and I visited Cullunghutti Aboriginal Child and Family Centre in Nowra. The Centre is a great example of how early childhood education can support communities.
