Jess Walsh

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Senator
Dr Jess Walsh
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Senator for Victoria
Assumed office
1 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1971-05-16) 16 May 1971 (age 53)
Melbourne, Victoria
NationalityAustralian
Political party Labor
Alma mater University of Melbourne (PhD, 2002)
University of Southern California (MA, 1997)
OccupationResearcher, trade unionist
Website www.jesswalsh.com.au

Jessica Cecille Walsh [1] (born 16 May 1971) is an Australian politician and trade unionist. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served as a Senator for Victoria since 2019. Prior to her election to parliament she was the state secretary of United Voice.

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Early life

Walsh was born in Melbourne on 16 May 1971. [2] She grew up in the suburb of North Balwyn. [3] She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) from the University of Melbourne, Master of Arts from the University of Southern California, and Doctor of Philosophy in economic geography from the University of Melbourne. [2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Organising the low-wage service sector: labour, community and urban politics in the United States". [4]

Career

From 1998 to 2000 Walsh was a research fellow at two progressive think tanks in the United States, the Institute for Policy Studies and the Economic Policy Institute. [2] There she researched "the loss of decent, stable manufacturing jobs and the growth in their place of low-paid and insecure work in service industries". [3] After returning to Australia, Walsh worked as a researcher and organiser for the Victorian branch of United Voice from 2002 to 2006. She then served as assistant state secretary from 2006 to 2007 and as state secretary from 2007 to 2019. [2]

Walsh was elected to the Senate at the 2019 federal election. She serves as Chair of the Senate Economics Committee and is a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. [5]

Politics

Walsh joined the ALP in 2005. [2] In 2018 she won ALP preselection for the Senate in second position on the party's ticket in Victoria. The party's left faction demoted incumbent senator Gavin Marshall to the third spot after Raff Ciccone and Walsh. [6]

Walsh was elected to the Senate at the 2019 federal election, to a six-year term beginning on 1 July 2019. In 2022 she was appointed chair of the Senate's economics legislation committee. [2]

Personal life

Walsh has two residential properties in Melbourne and South Gippsland. [7] She has an investment property in Byron Bay. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Qualification checklist" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Senator Jess Walsh". Senators and Members of the Parliament of Australia . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. 1 2 "First speech". Hansard. Parliament of Australia. 11 September 2019. Archived from the original on 28 February 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Organising the low-wage service sector : labour, community and urban politics in the United States". University of Melbourne Library. University of Melbourne. Archived from the original on 28 February 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "Australian Parliament House". Archived from the original on 28 February 2024. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  6. ↑ Remeikis, Amy (23 July 2018). "Victorian Labor senator's dumping could have ramifications in Queensland". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  7. 1 2 "The private interests of Senator Jess Walsh". openpolitics.au. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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