Senator Sue Lines - Labor Senator for Western Australia

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.


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