1. Jennie George was born on Eugenie Sinicky; 28 August 1947 and is an Australian politician, and former Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 2001 to July 2010, representing the Division of Throsby, New South Wales.
Jennie George was educated at the Burwood Girls High School, Sydney University and the Sydney Teachers College.
In February 1968 she married Paddy Jennie George, a full-time activist for the Communist Party and NSW State Secretary of the Eureka Youth League, of which she was a member.
Jennie George was a secondary school teacher and an active member of the teachers' union.
Jennie George was the first woman to hold this position.
When Victorian Senator Olive Zakharov, a member of the Left, was killed in a road accident in March 1995, it was assumed that Jennie George would be nominated to fill the casual vacancy.
Jennie George then withdrew her candidacy and did not reconsider a political career until returning to Sydney after leaving the ACTU.
Jennie George sought support for a seat in either of the houses of the NSW Parliament, but this came to nothing.
Jennie George was then offered a chance to stand for the federal seat of Throsby in New South Wales in 2001.
Jennie George was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001.
Jennie George served on the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage from 20 March 2002, on the Standing Committee on Family and Community Services from 20 March 2002 to 31 August 2004 and on the Standing Committee on Family and Human Services from 2 December 2004.
Jennie George was Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Environment and Heritage from 2004 to 2007.
Jennie George retired from Parliament at the 2010 federal election.
Unlike other ACTU Presidents who went on to be elected to Federal Parliament, Jennie George did not hold a ministerial position during her federal parliamentary career.
Jennie George was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia on 10 June 2013.