Rachel Carling-Jenkins
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Dr Rachel Carling-Jenkins MLC |
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| Leader of the Australian Conservatives Party in Victoria | |
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Assumed office 26 June 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Office established |
| Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Western Metropolitan Region | |
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Assumed office 29 November 2014 |
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Rachel Carling 2 September 1975 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Political party | Conservatives (2017–present) |
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Democratic Labour (2014–2017) |
| Alma mater | James Cook University |
| Website | http://www.rachelmp.com.au/ |
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."
Jenkins has asked why is money 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 addition she stated:
"I am no William Wilberforce, but he inspires me to value conviction over comfort, tenacity over temporary gain and devotion over indifference… Like Wilberforce, I am a non-conformist. I am not a bystander; I refuse to be a bystander. Under my watch there will not be silence... And so I stand here today and for the next four years as a voice for the vulnerable, a voice for the enslaved and a voice for the voiceless... It is human dignity and the common good which I will pursue here in this place where I will tell the stories of the people I represent — people I will fight for and people I care about."
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