Linda White
Lily D’AMBROSIO (Mill Park – Minister for Climate Action, Minister for Energy and Resources, Minister for the State Electricity Commission) (10:21): I also want to take this opportunity to recognise the passing of former Senator Linda White. With 25 years as assistant national secretary of the Australian Services Union, she was a formidable unionist with a heart for working people and equality for women in work. In our party she was a fighter for gender equality and central to securing the affirmative action reforms, making our party so much better for it – you only have to look at the wealth of women that we have here that are really driving the fantastic reforms that speak to women in our community. I had the great fortune of working alongside Linda and the clerks reform group and the ASU. Life can be unfair and, in this case, heartbreakingly so. Vale, comrade. We will miss you.