Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Higgins, Victoria, 2022. Retired prior to general elections 2025. Elected to the Senate for Victoria, 2025.

Parliamentary positions

• Member of the Speaker's Panel from 26.10.2022 to 12.9.2023.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Procedure served from 28.7.2022 to 28.3.2025; Health, Aged Care and Sport served from 28.7.2022 to 28.3.2025
• Joint Standing: Migration served from 24.7.2025 to present
• Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit served from 28.7.2022 to 28.3.2025; Human Rights served from 24.7.2025 to present
• Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Community Affairs: Legislation served from 22.7.2025 to present; Community Affairs: References served from 22.7.2025 to present; Environment and Communications: Legislation served from 22.7.2025 to present
• Senate Select: Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy served from 31.7.2025 to 4.8.2025; Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy served as Deputy Chair from 4.8.2025 to present
• Senate Standing: Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation served from 22.7.2025 to present

Parliamentary party positions

• Australian Labor Party. Served: 21.05.2022 to present

Personal

• Born: 10.12.1972, London, England
• Gender: Female
• Marital Status: Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• MBBS (Hons) (University of Sydney).
• PhD (University of Melbourne).
• Medical Doctor from January 2009 to August 2022.
• Research Fellow from 2019 to 2020.
• Statistical and Methods Reviewer from July 2019 to August 2022.
• Associate Professor from November 2020 to February 2021.
• Associate Editor from January 2021.

Honours

• Translating Research into Practice Fellowship by the Medical Research Future Fund, 2019.

Publications

• Hearing the Voices of Australian Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, BMJ Leader, 2020.
• Consensus Guidelines for Antifungal Stewardship, Surveillance and Infection Prevention, Internal Medicine Journal, 2021.
• When Azoles Cannot Be Used: The Clinical Effectiveness of Intermittent Liposomal Amphotericin Prophylaxis in Hematology Patients, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021.