Welcome to the last episode of season two!

Today we speak to Dr Katie Allen, Liberal Member for Higgins in Melbourne. She won the seat at the 2019 Federal Election. Before politics, Katie was a medical researcher In 2015 Allen was elected an Inaugural Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

At the 2019 election, the Liberals suffered a six-percent swing against them in Higgins, enough to drop the Liberal majority to 53 percent, making Higgins a marginal seat for the first time.

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In the House and In the Senate is recorded on the lands of the Whadjuk people.

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This week on the pod we chat to Lucy Stronach - the current Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations. Throughout 2021, Lucy toured Australia to identify the concerns, needs and experiences of diverse and underrepresented young people before reporting to key stakeholders including the Australian Government and the United Nations. 

A graduate of studies in Criminology, Law, and Security, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, Lucy is a passionate advocate of youth justice, indigenous justice, gender-based crime prevention, penology, and evidence-based practice. Her work has taken her to the streets of Mumbai to fight for the empowerment of sex workers, to juvenile prisons in San Diego to aid young offenders, and to the UNDP in Bangkok to work with youth leaders in the promotion of human rights and justice. 

Before assuming her role as the Youth Rep, Lucy worked across the Indo-Pacific as the Sri Lankan Fellow for DFAT’s New Colombo Plan Scholarship. Part of her program included working in Vietnam to combat the abuse of street children and rehabilitate victims of human trafficking, and after working at Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence, Lucy was named a contributing International Research Fellow where she helped formulate the nation’s first public defence strategy. 

In 2021, Lucy was named one of YAIA’s ‘Young Women to Watch in International Affairs’, currently sits on the Sir David Martin Foundation’s Youth Advisory Group and UNAA NSW’s Advisory Board, and is consulting on behalf of DFAT and Natasha Stott Despoja to assist with duties related to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.

Get in touch with In the House and In the Senate:

Instagram: @inthehouseinthesenate / @alisha.aitkenradburn

Email: inthehouseinthesenate@gmail.com

In the House and In the Senate is recorded on the lands of the Whadjuk people.

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This week on In the House and In the Senate I'm joined by Tanya Plibersek, the Labor Member for Sydney. Through her time in Parliament she served as a Cabinet Minister in the Rudd and Gillard Governments and the Deputy Leader of the Labor Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2019. 

She is currently the Shadow Minister for Education and Shadow Minister for Women.

Tanya grew up in Sydney, the daughter of migrants from Slovenia. She joined the Labor Party at 15 and went on to study journalism and public policy. During her time in Government, Tanya established the National Rental Affordability Scheme to build 50,000 affordable rental homes, expanded Medicare-subsided dental check-ups for children and convened the National Council to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children amongst much more. 

We chat about her first steps into politics, what she is most proud of having achieved so far, we also chat about the Kate Jenkins review - noting that this episode was recorded before the report's release.

Get in touch with In the House and In the Senate:

Instagram: @inthehouseinthesenate / @alisha.aitkenradburn

Email: inthehouseinthesenate@gmail.com

In the House and In the Senate is recorded on the lands of the Whadjuk people.

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