Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the Senate for New South Wales 2019.

Parliamentary positions

• Temporary Chair of Committees from 26.8.2020 to 1.9.2020.

Committee service

• Senate Select: Tobacco Harm Reduction from 8.10.2020 to 18.12.2020; Job Security from 10.12.2020 to 30.3.2022 (Chair from 17.12.2020 to 30.3.2022); COVID-19 from 21.10.2021 to 7.4.2022.
• Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: References from 2.7.2019; Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: References from 11.2.2020 to 17.6.2020; Economics: Legislation from 27.2.2020 to 24.3.2020 (Substitute member from 27.2.2020 to 24.3.2020); Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: Legislation from 9.12.2020 (Substitute member from 9.12.2020); Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: Legislation from 14.2.2022 to 14.2.2022 (Substitute member from 14.2.2022 to 14.2.2022).
• Joint Statutory: Public Works from 21.10.2021.
• Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 22.7.2019; National Broadband Network from 22.7.2019.
• Joint Select: Road Safety from 15.6.2021 to 25.3.2022.

Party positions

• Member of the Australian Labor Party Administrative Committee (NSW).
• Member of the Australian Labor Party from 1988 to current.
• Senior Vice-President of the Australian Labor Party State Branch (NSW) from 2011 to 2015.

Personal

• Born 26.8.1961, Caringbah, Australia

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• Vice-President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
• Secretary of the Transport Workers' Union of Australia (NSW) from 1999 to 2008.
• National Secretary of the Transport Workers' Union of Australia from 2006 to 2019.
• Chair of the Road Transport Section of the International Transport Workers' Federation from 2014 to 2019.