Children of high-achieving parents sometimes struggle to make their own mark on the world. Not so 39-year-old Rose Jackson, the state’s youngest minister, and daughter of the late, storiedWhen Labor regained office just over a year ago she found herself put in charge of no less than six portfolios – housing, homelessness, mental health, youth, the North Coast and water – most of which come regularly attached to the word “crisis” in headlines.
“You are never going to click your fingers and deliver 10,000 homes. It’s always going to be 30 here, 100 there, 50 here, 15 there, project by project, day by day; that’s just going to be the nature of the work.”She’s also taking the fight to the Commonwealth for more funds to tackle the state’s wider housing crisis, which has become a political firestorm across the country.
Liz died in 2018, aged 67, after a drawn-out battle with cruelly disabling Parkinson’s disease, a battle Jackson’s father, Butler, documented in a moving program for“It was extremely hard to watch her decline,” Jackson says, briefly blinking back tears. “But she didn’t want judgment, she didn’t want pity. So I won’t do that either … she fought so valiantly.”
At the end of primary school, Jackson announced she was going to get herself into the Newtown High School of the Performing Arts even if that meant two trains and a bus, each way, every school day. She succeeded, became captain, and gained early notoriety leading a school strike against Pauline Hanson.
“You don’t want the party to be entirely people like me,” she concedes. “But, in my defence I realised at uni that I was passionate about politics. I realised that was my vocation.” And, she maintains, there is still a “healthy mix” inside the Labor caucus of MPs from other backgrounds., Jackson promised “no bullshit or spin”, and spoke of the fear of losing touch with herself in the “fog” of politics. She’s described her leadership style as “unique”.
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