Career
Prior to entering politics,Stewart worked as a family therapist,university lecturer,and policy adviser on Aboriginal affairs and child protection. [5] She worked for Victorian state Aboriginal affairs minister Natalie Hutchins on treaty negotiations. [2] She was a later a deputy secretary of the Victorian Department of Justice focusing on Stolen Generations reparations. [6]
Senate career
In March 2022,Stewart was nominated to fill a casual vacancy in the Senate caused by the death of Victorian senator Kimberley Kitching. [6] She also won ALP preselection for the Senate ticket at the 2022 federal election. [9]
She was officially appointed to the Senate at a joint sitting of the Victorian Parliament on 6 April 2022. However,the Senate did not sit between her appointment and the imminent election. [10] [1]
Stewart took her seat after the 2022 federal election. She is the youngest Aboriginal woman to serve in the federal parliament. [3]
On 28 February 2024,Stewart was elected chair of the federal parliament Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs,a position previously held by Pat Dodson. [11]
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