Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Perth for that very helpful contribution. I got to know Jenny when I was not very long out of student politics and she was working in an institution called the Labor Resource Centre, which was very important to the revival of Labor’s political agenda in Victoria. They were not easy circumstances in a pretty unrenovated terrace house in Carlton. It is the sort of thing you would only do for the love of it. Jenny went on to work for the Hawke and Keating governments, most particularly for Brian Howe in some very big health policy areas, and then came to this parliament as the member for Jagajaga following the retirement of Peter Staples. Her record here speaks for itself. It has included many a portfolio, particularly health, and I do not think anyone is ever going to forget the MRI scan scam.

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