Australian Left Review

Article Title

Profile: Jennie George

Authors

Mark Davis

Abstract

Jennie George is used to making symbolic breakthroughs for women in the labour movement. In 1979 she became the first woman to hold the senior elected position in Australia's biggest teachers' union, the NSW Teachers Federation. Four years later she won a public-sector unions' position on the ACTU executive, becoming the first woman ever to sit on that body.