The Honourable Stephen Jones | |
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Member of the Australian Parliament for Whitlam | |
Assumed office 2 July 2016 | |
Preceded by | New seat |
Member of the Australian Parliament for Throsby | |
In office 21 August 2010 –2 July 2016 | |
Preceded by | Jennie George |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services | |
Assumed office 1 June 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Anthony Albanese |
Preceded by | Michael Sukkar (Assistant Treasurer) Jane Hume (Minister for Financial Services) |
Personal details | |
Born | Wollongong,New South Wales,Australia | 29 June 1965
Political party | Australian Labor Party |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | University of Wollongong (BA),Macquarie University (LLB) |
Profession | Lawyer and union official |
Website | www |
Stephen Patrick Jones (born 29 June 1965) is an Australian politician who represents the Division of Whitlam (formerly Throsby) for the Australian Labor Party. He was elected at the 2010 Australian federal election and is the current Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services. [1]
Stephen Jones is one of five children (Maree,Luke,Adam and Amanda) who grew up in Wollongong,New South Wales. His father Mark,was a teacher at TAFE and his mother Margaret,worked as a School Assistant. [2] Stephen is the father to two children.
Jones attended St Brigid's Primary School in Gwynneville,New South Wales and Edmund Rice College in Wollongong,where he was School Captain and Dux. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (History and Politics) from the University of Wollongong and a Bachelor of Laws from Macquarie University.
His early career was spent as a youth advocate in Campbelltown,New South Wales. Working primarily with children who had developmental disabilities and later,with adults suffering spinal cord injury. [3]
Stephen Jones joined the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) in 1993. He worked in various roles,including NSW branch secretary and secretary of the Communications Division. He was seconded to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) in 2004,where he worked to secure compensation for victims of James Hardie asbestos-related disease. Stephen Jones was elected as national secretary of the CPSU [4] in 2005 and led the union's campaign against the Howard government's WorkChoices industrial laws in the lead up to the 2007 Australian federal election.
Stephen Jones gained preselection for the seat of Throsby in late 2009,following the resignation of former Member Jennie George. He was endorsed as the Labor candidate after the intervention of the Labor Party national executive [5] [6] and he gained the seat at the 2010 federal election. [7]
Jones made his First Speech in the House of Representatives on 19 October 2010. [8]
In the 43rd Parliament,Jones served as a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, [9] the Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications. [10] and the Joint Select Committee on Gambling Reform. [11]
Jones faced a contested pre-selection battle to retain Throsby in 2013. In the long lead up to the pre-selection,a number of potential candidates from the opposing right wing faction of the ALP were floated including Mark Hay,the son of State MP for Wollongong,Noreen Hay [12] and former State Member for Kiama,Matt Brown. [13] When nominations were called in May 2013,after months of delay, [14] the only challenger to contest the pre-selection was local nurse John Rumble,son of former State MP,Terry Rumble. [15] [16] Jones decisively won the rank and file pre-selection ballot held on 15 June 2013 by 90 votes to 47. [17]
Stephen Jones was re-elected for a second term at the 2013 Australian federal election. On 18 October 2013,he was appointed shadow parliamentary secretary for Infrastructure and Regional Development. On 4 March 2014,Jones was promoted to Shadow Assistant Minister for Health after Melissa Parke MP stepped down due to personal and family reasons.
Jones was re-elected for a third term at the 2016 Australian federal election,after the Division of Throsby had been renamed the Division of Whitlam. [18] He was re-elected at the 2022 election,becoming the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services for the incoming Albanese Government. [19]
As a co-convenor of Labor's left faction in the federal parliamentary Labor Party,Jones has spoken in the House of Representatives on a number of issues of importance to the progressive political agenda including same-sex marriage,asylum seekers,introducing a carbon price and other environmental issues.
On 15 November 2010,in response to a motion concerning same-sex marriage moved by Adam Bandt,Federal Member for Melbourne (Australian Greens) in the House of Representative,Jones moved,as an amendment:
He articulated the political challenge:
The amended motion was supported by Labor and passed in the House of Representatives, [22] the first such motion adopted in the lower house on same-sex marriage.
Following changes to the ALP National Platform in November 2011 to allow for marriage equality and a conscience vote for Labor MPs, [23] Stephen Jones agreed to put forward a Private Member's Bill to give effect to ALP policy in the Australian Parliament. [24] He introduced his bill to legalize same-sex marriage on 13 February 2012. [25] The Bill was defeated in the House of Representatives on 19 September 2012. [26]
Jones has campaigned on a number of other issues as an MP,including restrictions on gambling ads during TV sports broadcasts,for local job seekers in the mining industry,the early rollout of the National Broadband Network to the region,Labor party reform and renewal and Prime Minister Rudd's asylum seeker agreement with Papua New Guinea.
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