1. Jenny Leong served as the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association President between February 2006 and July 2007.
12 Facts About Jenny Leong
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Jenny Leong was elected to the Sydney University Senate in 2007, serving for one year.
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Jenny Leong was the Greens candidate for the division of Sydney in the 2004 and 2007 federal elections, but was unsuccessful.
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Jenny Leong managed the NSW Greens' campaign for the 2013 federal election.
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Jenny Leong won the newly created seat of Newtown against Labor's candidate, Penny Sharpe, during the 2015 New South Wales state election with a margin of more than ten points.
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Jenny Leong joined fellow Green Jamie Parker in the lower house of the New South Wales Parliament.
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In October 2023, Jenny Leong signed an open letter condemning attacks against Israeli and Palestinian civilians during the Gaza war.
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Jenny Leong was strongly criticised for use of the phrase, including by several Jewish community leaders and politicians such, as well as Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
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Jenny Leong was born in 1977 in Adelaide to a Chinese Malaysian father and an Anglo-Australian mother.
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In 1996, at the age of nineteen, Jenny Leong permanently relocated to Newtown.
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Jenny Leong worked with Amnesty International from 2008 to 2012 as a crisis coordinator and a campaign organiser before entering politics.
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Jenny Leong spent more than three years on the Human Rights Law Resource Centre advisory committee.