George, Jennie (1947-)

Also known as
GEORGE, Jennie (1947-)
Sinicky, Eugenie (1947-)
Sinicky, Jennie (1947-)
Field of activity
Parliamentarian and Trade unionist; Member for Throsby (NSW) 2001-10
Libraries Australia
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35734827
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-561660

Biographies

Born 20.8.1947, Trani, Italy.

Parliamentary Service

  • Elected to the House of Representatives for Throsby, New South Wales, 2001, 2004 and 2007. Retired prior to general elections 2010.

Committee Service

  • House of Representatives Standing: Environment and Heritage from 20.3.02 to 17.10.07; Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts from 19.2.08 to 19.7.10; Family and Community Services from 20.3.02 to 31.8.04; Family and Human Services from 2.12.04 to 19.7.10; Petitions from 19.2.08 to 19.7.10; Privileges and Members' Interests from 19.2.08 to 19.7.10; Procedure from 19.2.08 to 19.7.10.

Conferences, Delegations and Visits

  • Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Denmark and Sweden, October 2005.

Parliamentary Party Positions

  • Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Environment and Heritage from 26.10.04 to 3.12.07.

Party Positions

  • Delegate, ALP State and Federal Conferences.

Qualifications and Occupation before entering Federal Parliament

  • BA (Syd), DipEd (Sydney Teachers College).
  • Secondary school teacher, Bankstown Girls' School and Queanbeyan High School.
  • First elected as Welfare Officer, NSW Teachers' Federation 1973.
  • General Secretary, NSW Teachers' Federation 1980-82.
  • President, NSW Teachers' Federation 1986-89.
  • First woman elected Vice-President, Australian Council of Trade Unions 1987.
  • Assistant National Director, Trade Union Training Authority 1989-91.
  • Assistant Secretary, Australian Council of Trade Unions 1991-1996.
  • President, Australian Council of Trade Unions 1996-March 2000.
  • Board Member, Delta Electricity 2000-01.
  • Director, Health Employees Superannuation Trust Australia (HESTA) 2000-01.

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Jennie George, who is of Russian and Italian heritage and came to Australia when she was three years old, was the first woman to be appointed President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) in 1996. In November 2001, she became a Federal Member of Parliament when she successfully contested the seat of Throsby for the Australian Labor Party. She was re-elected in 2004 and 2007, but retired at the 2010 election, which was held on 21 August.

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Australian Parliamentary Library

  1. Resources related to GEORGE
    Published: Australian Parliamentary Library

Australian Women's Register

  1. Ms Jennie George MP, Member for Throsby (NSW)Parliament of Australia : Ms Jennie George MP, Member for Throsby (NSW)
    Australian Parliament House
    Series: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=JH5
  2. Who's who in Australia 2002
    Herd, Margaret
    [2002]
    Published: Crown Content
  3. Australian Feminism: A Companion
    Caine, Barbara
    [1998]
    Published: Oxford University Press

Resources by Jennie George (13)

  1. Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Bill 2008 / House of Representatives Standing Committee on Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts
    Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts
    [ Book, Article : 2009 ]
    View online
    At 22 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.158)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.158)

  2. Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Bill 2008 / House of Representatives Standing Committee on Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts
    Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts
    [ Book, Article : 2009 ]
    View online
    At 22 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 4.266)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 4.266)

  3. Unions, overseas born women workers and industrial relations / Jennie George
    George, Jennie, 1947-
    [ Book : 1996 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.359)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.359)

  4. Submission to the Commonwealth Minister for Finance : funding of non-government schools / Jennie George, Simon Marginson
    George, Jennie, 1947-
    [ Book : 1985 ]
    At 4 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.282)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.282)

  5. Managed decentralism or deregulation? : the key issue in industrial relations / Jennie George
    George, Jennie, 1947-
    [ Book : 1992 ]
    At UOW Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.228)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.228)

  6. Appointing and managing learning support assistants : a practical guide for SENCOs and other managers / Jennie George and Margaret Hunt
    George, Jennie, 1947-
    [ Book : 2003 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.22)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.22)

  7. Flexibility and fairness / paper by Jennie George to the Department of Industrial Relations "IR issues over lunch", National Press Club, 22 October 1993
    George, Jennie, 1947-
    [ Book : 1993 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.899)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.899)

  8. Fightback turns back the clock for women / paper by Jennie George
    George, Jennie, 1947-
    [ Book : 1992 ]
    At QUT Gardens Point
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.781)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.781)

  9. Women and Enterprise Bargaining Forum : setting the scene : the ACTU perspective / paper by Jennie George
    George, Jennie, 1947-
    [ Book : 1992 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.776)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.776)

  10. [Fundraising luncheon for Jessie Street National Women's Library 27.5.1996] [with guest speaker Jennie George]
    Jessie Street National Women's Library
    [ Video : 1996 ]
    At Jessie Street NW Lib
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.575)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.575)

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Resources about Jennie George (2)

  1. Spinning Jennie : a political biography of Jennie George: 1947-1983 / Helen Masterman-Smith
    Masterman-Smith, Helen
    [ Thesis : 1997 ]
    At UWS Campbelltown Lib
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.736)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.736)

  2. 'Tough enough?' : constructions of femininity in news reporting of Jennie George, ACTU president 1995-2000 / Katherine B. Muir
    Muir, Kathie
    [ Thesis : 2004-2006 ]
    Languages: en_US, English
    View online
    At Barr Smith Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.774)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.774)

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  1. Annie Get Your Gun (1946 - )
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  1. Website: Australian Women's Archives Project
    www.womenaustralia.info
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  2. Website: Australian Women in War
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  1. [Biographical cuttings on Jennie George, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
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  2. Jennie Dunkle letter to George Garman, October 24, 1862
    Dunkle, Jennie
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  3. Jennie Dunkle letter to George Garman, June 8, 1862
    Dunkle, Jennie
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  1. The Macmillan illustrated world atlas : a comprehensive portrait of planet Earth / [chief cartographer, Laurie Whiddon ; cartographic team, Bil Anderson ... [et al.] ; project editors/text, Jenni Bruce, Scott Forbes]
    Whiddon, L. E. (Laurie E.)
    [ Map, Book : 2004 ]
    At 34 libraries
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  2. The Usborne picture atlas / edited by Jenny Tyler and Lisa Watts ; designed by John Strange
    Tyler, Jenny
    [ Book, Map : 1976-1986 ]
    At 2 libraries
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  3. The Children's picture atlas
    Tyler, Jenny
    [ Book, Map : 1976 ]
    At Brisbane City Cou
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    This resource may only be vaguely related to your query: matching terms may only have been found in the full text contents of the resource (score: 0.006)

  1. Jennie George / Brad Norington
    Norington, Brad, 1959-
    [ Book : 1998-1999 ]
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  2. Andrew Olle, 1947-1995 : a tribute / [compiled by] Annette Olle, Paul Lyneham
    Olle, Annette
    [ Book : 1996 ]
    At 81 libraries
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  3. A garden, a pig and me : a year at Torryburn / Jenny Ferguson
    Ferguson, Jenny, 1947-
    [ Book : 1999 ]
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.688)

  4. How to design stained glass : with 84 patterns / Jennie French
    French, Jennie, 1947-
    [ Book : 1994 ]
    At 10 libraries
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  1. Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare
    Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
    [ Book, Audio book, Article : 1597-2011 ]
    Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, [17 others]
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    At 190 libraries
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  2. Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens
    Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
    [ Book, Audio book, Sound : 1800-2012 ]
    Languages: English, Chinese, Arabic, [19 others]
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
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    At 181 libraries
    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.306)

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  3. Hamlet / William Shakespeare
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    [ Book, Audio book, Article : 1603-2009 ]
    Languages: English, Spanish, French, [26 others]
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    At 201 libraries
    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.283)

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  4. A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens
    Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
    [ Book, Audio book, Article : 1800-2011 ]
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    At 148 libraries
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  1. THE JENNIE LEE SEASON. "JO" AT ST. GEORGE'S HALL.
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    ... THE JENNIE IE LEE SEASON "JO" * ? 'JO' AT ST. GEORGES HALL. A full house and a highly-pleased - pleased audience greeted Miss Jennie on the occasion ion of her opening performance at St. George's Hall on Wednesday week last. Burnett's dramatised version of ' Bleak House,' in which Miss Jennie Lee ... 761 words
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  2. Family Notices
    Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954) Monday 18 October 1948 p 8 Family Notices
    ... dear sis ter, Jennie, who passed away on October 18, 1947. Always cheerful, loving and kind; What a ... NEALE.-In loving memory of my dear cousin, Jennie, who depar ted this life on October 18, 1947. Her ... residence of his nephew, Mr. J. H. Charlesworth, 31 Tarleton st., East Devonport, George, husband of the ... 709 words
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  3. Family Notices
    The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Wednesday 22 October 1947 p 17 Family Notices
    ... well), and George (England), aged 83 years. HODGKINSON.-On October 20, 1947, at his residence, 173 ... Clive, and Roy. At rest. NEALE.-On October 18, 1947, at Sydney, New South Wales, Gwendoline Jennie, only ... BIRTHS BRINCKMAN.-On October 8, 1947, at Calvary Hospital, to Molly, wife of Alf, of Blackmans ... 903 words
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