Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2019. Re-elected 2022.

Parliamentary positions

• Member of the Speaker's Panel from 1.12.2022.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Economics served from 28.7.2022 to present; Privileges and Members' Interests served from 28.7.2022 to present
• Joint Standing: National Disability Insurance Scheme served from 23.7.2019 to 2.9.2020; National Disability Insurance Scheme served from 25.2.2021 to present; National Capital and External Territories served from 28.7.2022 to 7.8.2022; National Capital and External Territories served as Chair from 8.8.2022 to present
• Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit served from 9.9.2019 to 27.8.2020; Public Accounts and Audit served from 25.2.2021 to 11.4.2022; Human Rights served from 7.12.2023 to present; Parliamentary Standards served from 10.10.2024 to present

Parliamentary party positions

• Australian Labor Party. Served: 18.05.2019 to present
• Secretary of the Australian Labor Party First Nations Caucus Committee from 2019.

Party positions

• Member of the Australian Labor Party Administrative Committee (ACT) from 2010 to 2019.
• Delegate to the Australian Labor Party National Conference from 2011.
• Junior Vice-President of the Australian Labor Party (ACT) from 2016 to 2018.

Personal

• Born: 24.7.1982, Canberra, Australia
• Gender: Female
• Marital Status: Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BEc(Hons-Political Economy) (University of Sydney).
• Research Fellow at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling from 2005 to 2009.
• Research Adviser to the Hon. L Tanner MP, Minister for Finance from 2009 to 2010.
• Policy Analyst at the Commonwealth Treasury from 2010 to 2015.
• Senior Adviser on Social Policy to Hon. W Shorten MP, Leader of the Opposition from 2015 to 2016.
• Chief of Staff to Hon. J Macklin MP, Shadow Minister for Social Services from 2016 to 2018.

Electorate

• Name: Canberra
• Location: The Division of Canberra covers an area in central ACT consisting of the Districts of: Canberra Central, Kowen, Majura, part of Belconnen, part of Jerrabomberra, part of Molonglo Valley, part of Weston Creek, and part of Woden Valley.
• Area: 312 Sq km
• Electors enrolled: 95,348 (at 7.6.2019)
• Industries: Mainly residential with tourism, retail and some light industry at Fyshwick and Beard.

Publications

• NATSEM Income and Wealth Report Issue 14 - Trends in Effective Marginal Tax Rates 1996-97 to 2006-07 (co-authored with A Harding, Q Ngu Vu and R Percival), AMP, 2006.
• NATSEM Income and Wealth Report 15 - Tomorrow's consumers (co-authored with A Harding and Q Ngu Vu), AMP, 2006.
• What Price the Clever Country? - The Costs of Tertiary Education in Australia (co-authored with R Percival), AMP, 2008.
• Expenditure of Low Income Households in the ACT (co-authored with Q Ngu Vu), ACT Council of Social Service, 2008.
• Consumers in 2020, (co-authored by Q Ngu Vu); in Transitions: Pathways Towards Sustainable Urban Development in Australia (edited by P Newton), CSIRO Publishing, 2008.
• A Rising Tide? Income Inequality, the Social Safety Net and the Labour Market in Australia (co-authored with A Harding and Q Ngu Vu), in Laggards and Leaders in Labour Market Reform: Comparing Australia and Japan (edited by J Corbett, A Daly, H Matsushige and D Taylor), Routledge, 2009.
• NATSEM Income and Wealth Report 23 - Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?: The Relationship Between Health, Employment and Earnings in Australia (co-authored with B Nepal and L Brown), AMP, 2009.