Anne is a 2011 inductee into the Western Australian Women’s Hall of Fame, a 2016 nominee for Australian of the Year and a 2016 recipient of the prestigious Australian Security Medal. In 2021, she was awarded the McKinnon Prize for Emerging Political Leader of the Year, in recognition of her Parliamentary work against both right-wing extremism and family and violence.

A former president of Liberal National Party (LNP) Women in Queensland, she is a strong advocate for women in politics and upholds LNP values of opportunity, family, and freedom. Angie has a background in music, having studied at the Elder Conservatorium and performed internationally.

Elected to federal parliament in 2019, she now serves as Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Youth and is the founder and Patron of the Gold Coast IMPACT Youth Summit. Angie is a passionate advocate for the Gold Coast, the arts and Australia’s young people.

In nearly 30 years of reporting, Zoe has covered natural disasters, conflict, economics and politics, and all manner of news around the world. She has seen first-hand the impact of climate change in the Arctic, and has covered floods, typhoons and bushfires across four continents, including Australia.

Zoe has been a rural and regional journalist, a business and finance reporter, and a foreign affairs specialist, interviewing and interacting with prime ministers, treasurers and some of Australia’s top CEOs and small businesspeople.

Before entering parliament, Zoe waited (like many) for governments to develop costed and structured strategies to safeguard communities and economies, to innovate and to embrace the immense business and job opportunities that a renewable climate economy presents.

Steph took her seat as a Senator for Victoria in May 2024, and holds the Early Childhood Education and Care portfolio, and the Science, Industry and Innovation portfolio.

She has worked as an adviser to the United Nations in New York, successfully strengthening Australia’s position on the impact of the climate crisis on food security, negotiating stronger reef protections and increasing Australia’s humanitarian intake of refugees and asylum seekers.

Steph’s fight for climate justice has taken her across the globe. She has worked as the Head of Pacific for a major international non-profit, achieving landmark legal victories in deep allyship with Indigenous frontline Pasifika communities.

Born to a fifth-generation farmer and rural public school teacher, Steph has a close connection to her regional roots in Central Victoria. She founded a local organic food business informed by her upbringing on the family farm.

Steph lives with her partner and two young children in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda.