In the House and In the Senate

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.aitkenradburnEmail: inthehouseinthesenate@gmail.comIn the House and In the Senate is recorded on the lands of the Whadjuk people.

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.aitkenradburnEmail: inthehouseinthesenate@gmail.comIn the House and In the Senate is recorded on the lands of the Whadjuk people.

Senator Sue Lines has been a Labor Senator for Western Australia since 2013. She has been the Deputy President of the Senate since 2016.Before entering politics, Sue was the Assistant National Secretary of the union United Voice. In this conversation we discuss Labor's ongoing consultation with First Nations women in Western Australia and across Australia, we chat about the origins of Sue's drive to make change in the world and go into the dynamics of preselections, power and policy-making. Get in touch with In the House and In the Senate:Instagram: @inthehouseinthesenate / @alisha.aitkenradburnEmail: inthehouseinthesenate@gmail.comIn the House and In the Senate is recorded on the lands of the Whadjuk people.

This week on In the House and In the Senate I'm joined by Hannah Smith.Hannah is the National Campaigns Co-ordinator at the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union – also known as the AMWU. The AMWU represents tens of thousands of workers across Australia in all areas of manufacturing from food and confectionery, metal manufacturing and engineering, printing, design, packaging and more.Hannah has worked in various capacities at the AMWU for the past six years – starting as an organiser with print workers.I’m very grateful she can share her insights as a staunch unionist and feminist with us, she's very very awesome and I'm a big fangirl. Please rate, review and subscribe to In the House and In the Senate to help us grow and reach more people!Get in touch with In the House and In the Senate:Instagram: @inthehouseinthesenate / @alisha.aitkenradburnEmail: inthehouseinthesenate@gmail.comIn the House and In the Senate is recorded on the lands of the Whadjuk people.

In today's episode we chat to Dr Anne Aly, the Labor Member for Cowan.Anne is an internationally renowned expert in counter-terrorism and counter radicalisation, she has published over 100 articles and books on topics related to terrorism and international security. Anne was the only Australian to be invited to President Obama's White House conference on violent extremism in 2015. She has worked with the United Nations on developing programs and policies on national security and counter-terrorism. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her work and in 2016 she was awarded the Australian security medal.This has to be one of my favourite episodes yet - Anne is so refreshingly candid, compassionate and vivacious. We chat about her entry into politics, have differing opinions to the collective in a political party and what's in store for her future. I am very grateful that she's joined us on the pod. Get in touch with In the House and In the Senate:Instagram: @inthehouseinthesenate / @alisha.aitkenradburnEmail: inthehouseinthesenate@gmail.comIn the House and In the Senate is recorded on the lands of the Whadjuk people.

Today on In the House and In the Senate, I'm joined by Dhanya Mani.Dhanya has worked for 4 years as an adviser to NSW Parliamentarians, including then-Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, The Hon Shelley Hancock MP. She has worked across the law and government - including as a tipstaff in the Equity Division in the Supreme Court of NSW, and recently as an analyst in Treasury's Foreign Investment Division. She is now studying English Literature and Philosophy, and is working full-time as an advocate and freelance writer focused on issues impacting political minorities - particularly women and people of colour. Please rate, review and subscribe to In the House and In the Senate to help us grow and reach more people!Get in touch with In the House and In the Senate:Instagram: @inthehouseinthesenate / @alisha.aitkenradburnEmail: inthehouseinthesenate@gmail.comIn the House and In the Senate is recorded on the lands of the Whadjuk people.