The Honourable  Jenny Macklin  BComm (Hons) (Melb), MP
Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
In office 3 December 2007 – Current
Constituency	Jagajaga
Born	29 September 1953 (1953-09-29) (age 54) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Residence	Ivanhoe, Victoria
Website	JennyMacklin.com

Jennifer Louise Macklin (born 29 December 1953), is an Australian politician. The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to " The Hon The University of Melbourne is a Public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. The Australian Minister for Family Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs has been Jenny Macklin since December 2007 Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Division of Jagajaga is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. Events 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Brisbane ( is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Ivanhoe is a Suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Banyule and Events 1170 - Thomas Becket: Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. She is Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in the Rudd Labor Government. The Australian Minister for Family Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs has been Jenny Macklin since December 2007 She has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Jagajaga, Victoria. The House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers of the Parliament of Australia; it is the Lower house, the Upper house being the Senate Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) The Division of Jagajaga is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.

Biography

Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Macklin grew up in country Victoria. Brisbane ( is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent She spent time in Japan as a student before graduating from the University of Melbourne with an honours degree in economics. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The University of Melbourne is a Public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. A Marxist in her youth, she is a member of the Socialist Left faction of the Labor Party. Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. This article is about the Australian party faction for the Norwegian political party see Socialist Left Party (Norway The WikipediaManual of Style#National varieties of English.-->A political faction

Macklin was a researcher at the Australian National University in 1976-78, an economics research specialist with the Parliamentary Library in Canberra 1978-81, Research Coordinator at the Labour Resource Centre in Melbourne 1981-85, an adviser to the Victorian Minister for Health 1985-88, director of the federal government's National Health Strategy 1990-93 and director of the Australian Urban and Regional Development Review 1993-95. The Australian National University, commonly abbreviated to ANU, is a public Research university situated in Canberra, Australia. Canberra ( is the capital city of Australia With a population of over 340000 it is Australia's largest inland City. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3

On her election to Parliament, Macklin was immediately elected a member of the Opposition Shadow Cabinet, where she served in a number of roles, including Shadow Minister for Aged Care, Social Security and the Status of Women. After the 1998 election, Macklin became Shadow Minister for Health. Results House of Representatives preference flows The Nationals had candidates in 13 seats where Three-cornered-contests existed

Jenny Macklin (left) at the apology for the stolen generations.

After the ALP's defeat at the 2001 election, Macklin was elected Deputy Leader to Simon Crean. Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 November, 2001. Simon Findlay Crean (born 26 February 1949) is an Australian Politician, and current Minister for Trade in the Australian Federal Government She was the first woman to hold a leadership position in either Australian major party. She took on the position of Shadow Minister for Education. Following Crean's replacement as leader by Mark Latham in December 2003, and Latham's subsequent resignation in January 2005, Macklin retained her position. Mark William Latham (born 28 February 1961) a former Australian politician was leader of the Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party Remaining as deputy leader under Kim Beazley, Macklin became the first person to be deputy to three leaders of the ALP since Frank Forde. For Kim Beazley's father Kim Beazley senior, see Kim Edward Beazley. Francis Michael Forde (18 July 1890 &ndash 28 January 1983 was an Australian politician and the 15th Prime Minister of Australia.

On 1 December 2006, Macklin's position as deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party came under threat after Kim Beazley called for a spill of all the leadership positions in a bid to end growing speculation over the issue. Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Kevin Rudd, and Shadow Minister for Health, Julia Gillard, announced their intentions to run against Beazley and Macklin as a team for the positions of leader and deputy leader respectively of the party. Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957 is the 26th and current Prime Minister of Australia and federal leader of the Centre-left Australian Labor Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961 is the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and deputy leader of the federal Australian Labor Party (ALP On the day of the ballot, Macklin effectively stepped down from the position, choosing not to contest the deputy leadership after Kevin Rudd was elected as the new party leader. Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957 is the 26th and current Prime Minister of Australia and federal leader of the Centre-left Australian Labor Macklin was once again elected to the Shadow frontbench, and was appointed Shadow Minister for Families & Community Services and Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Reconciliation.

After Labor's landslide victory against the Liberal/National Coalition in the 2007 Australian Federal Election, Prime Minister-elect announced that Macklin would be Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. In this position, she oversaw the formal apology to the Stolen Generations and is working to acheive the Rudd Labor Government's election promises to improve the living standards of indigenous Australians.

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See Also

• First Rudd Ministry