Day two: Plenary address

The Hon. Senator Jenny McAllister Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy

Jenny McAllister is the Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy in the Albanese Labor Government.

Jenny was sworn into the Senate in 2015. Before this, she held various senior roles at AECOM, a global infrastructure firm. Jenny’s professional career spans both public and private sectors, in which she held senior roles that focused on infrastructure, environment management and climate change.

Jenny has served as National President of the ALP and as a member of the ALP National Policy Committee. She was co-founder of the Labor Environmental Activist Network (known as LEAN) with Kristina Keneally, a former Premier of NSW.