Women
Lee is the Australian Greens spokesperson on women. As a Greens MP in the NSW Parliament for over a decade Lee held the women’s portfolio and campaigned on funding for an Office of Women, women's health, the working rights of women, better services and laws for women subject to domestic violence and abortion law reform.
In the federal sphere Lee is continuing to champion women’s rights, including work/life balance and women’s representation in politics. She is also working on reproductive health as part of her work in the foreign aid portfolio. Lee founded the annual Juanita Nielsen Memorial lecture in 2001. Juanita was a community activist who disappeared feared murdered for her stance against overdevelopment in Kings Cross.
media-releases
31 Jul 2009
The Greens will move in the Senate to protect the rights of women to choose safe homebirths if the Government does not change i...
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12 Nov 2008
Today, Senator Siewert told stories of women workers currently finding life very difficult under Work Choices and wondering wha...
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12 Nov 2008
I would like today to address the issues of what workers are saying they need from Forward with Fairness and the change to the ...
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06 Nov 2007
The coalition has once again shown contempt for the hurt that Work Choices is causing many working people in Australia.
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05 Nov 2007
In December 2006 the Howard Government rushed into law two pieces of legislation that are having a disastrous effect on many wo...
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25 Oct 2007
The Australian Greens today blasted the Government for their treatment of single mothers.
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16 Oct 2007
"Work Choices and Welfare to Work are leaving many Australian women with no choices", said Senator Rachel Siewert.
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14 Oct 2007
From 1 July last year, child-care fee assistance under the Jobs Education and Training program (JET) was cut back to only inclu...
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09 Oct 2007
Paid parental leave, affordable childcare and measures to balance work and family commitments are the cornerstones of building ...
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25 Jun 2007
"Many single mums are being forced to drop out of degrees and take on huge debts since the Government changed its eligibil...