Jenny Macklin served for twenty-three years as the federal Member for Jagajaga. Jenny was the longest-serving woman in the House of Representatives, and was the first woman to become the deputy leader of a major Australian political party. She was the Deputy Leader of the federal parliamentary Labor Party from 2001 to 2006, and she served as the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, and the Minister for Disability Reform in the Rudd and Gillard Labor governments. She oversaw the Apology to the Stolen Generations and development of the Closing the Gap framework, and the introduction of Australia’s first national Paid Parental Leave scheme; delivered the largest increase to the pension in the history of the payment; was responsible for the design and implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and was an integral part of the establishment of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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Book Launch: From Convict Printers to Book Arcade
Melbourne Athenaeum Library
Level 1, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Join us for the launch of From Convict Printers to Book Arcade A History of the Book in Australia, Volume I: 1788 to 1890 Edited by Wallace Kirsop, Elizabeth Webby...
See our authors at Adelaide Writers’ Week
Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden
King William Street, Adelaide, South Australia
See Kim Carr, Gareth Evans, John Lyons and Richard Denniss at Adelaide Writers’ Week.
See our authors at the Manly Writers’ Festival
Darley Smith Building
Corner of 1 Darley Road and The Corso, Manly, NSW
Join our authors Kim Carr, Lauren Samuelsson, Sarah Arachchi, Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang at the Manly Writers' Festival.
Book Launch: From Convict Printers to Book Arcade
Melbourne Athenaeum Library Level 1, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaJoin us for the launch of From Convict Printers to Book Arcade A History of the Book in Australia, Volume I: 1788 to 1890 Edited by Wallace Kirsop, Elizabeth Webby...
See our authors at Adelaide Writers’ Week
Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden King William Street, Adelaide, South AustraliaSee Kim Carr, Gareth Evans, John Lyons and Richard Denniss at Adelaide Writers’ Week.
See our authors at the Manly Writers’ Festival
Darley Smith Building Corner of 1 Darley Road and The Corso, Manly, NSWJoin our authors Kim Carr, Lauren Samuelsson, Sarah Arachchi, Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang at the Manly Writers' Festival.
