Elected to the Senate for New South Wales 2019.

Temporary Chair of Committees from 26.8.2020 to 1.9.2020.

Senate Select: Tobacco Harm Reduction from 8.10.2020 to 18.12.2020; Job Security from 10.12.2020; COVID-19 from 21.10.2021.

Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: References from 2.7.2019; Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: References from 11.2.2020 to 17.6.2020; Economics: Legislation from 27.2.2020 to 24.3.2020 (Substitute member from 27.2.2020 to 24.3.2020); Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: Legislation from 9.12.2020 (Substitute member from 9.12.2020).

Joint Statutory: Public Works from 21.10.2021.

Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 22.7.2019; National Broadband Network from 22.7.2019.

Joint Select: Road Safety from 15.6.2021.

Member of the Australian Labor Party Administrative Committee (NSW).

Member of the Australian Labor Party from 1988 to current.

Senior Vice-President of the Australian Labor Party State Branch (NSW) from 2011 to 2015.

Born 26.8.1961, Caringbah, Australia

Vice-President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

Secretary of the Transport Workers' Union of Australia (NSW) from 1999 to 2008.

National Secretary of the Transport Workers' Union of Australia from 2006 to 2019.

Chair of the Road Transport Section of the International Transport Workers' Federation from 2014 to 2019.