Alma mater James Cook University Education James Cook University Party Democratic Labour Party | Role Politician Name Rachel Carling-Jenkins | |
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Born 2 September 1975 (age 48) ( 1975-09-02 ) Political party Democratic Labour Party Books Disability and Social Movements: Learning from Australian Experiences Profiles | ||
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Rachel Carling-Jenkins (born 2 September 1975) is an Australian politician. She was elected as a Democratic Labour Party (DLP) member in the Western Metropolitan Region of the Victorian Legislative Council at the 2014 state election. On 26 June 2017, Carling-Jenkins resigned from the DLP to join Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives. Carling-Jenkins said of the move, “I think it’s time for minor parties, like-minded parties, to unite because the conservative vote has been fractured."
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Jenkins has asked why money is being allocated preferentially to one side of the debate during the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.
Carling-Jenkins has a Ph.D. in Social Science; she has worked as an academic and social worker, before unsuccessfully contesting La Trobe in the 2013 Federal Election for the DLP. Carling-Jenkins is the author of Disability and Social Movements, which was published in November 2014.
In Carling-Jenkins' inaugural parliamentary speech, she described herself as a social justice campaigner, committed to raising awareness about gender selection abortions, cracking down on the sex industry, and rights and care for the disabled and elderly.
In a speech to the Victorian Legislative Council in September 2017, Carling-Jenkins disclosed that her former husband had been convicted and imprisoned for possession of child pornography, describing her shock at discovering the material on his computer and how she had reported him to the police.
