Kate Lundy

{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Kate_Lundy.jpg | caption = Lundy in 2013 | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Kate Lundy | honorific_suffix = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|12|15|df=y}} | birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | office = Minister for Multicultural Affairs | prime_minister = Julia Gillard<br/>Kevin Rudd | term_start = 5 March 2012 | term_end = 18 September 2013 | predecessor = ''Office Created'' | successor = Michaelia Cash | office2 = Minister for Sport | prime_minister2 = Julia Gillard | term_start2 = 5 March 2012 | term_end2 = 1 July 2013 | predecessor2 = Mark Arbib | successor2 = Don Farrell | office3 = Senator for the Australian Capital Territory | term_start3 = 2 March 1996 | term_end3 = 24 March 2015 | predecessor3 = Bob McMullan | successor3 = Katy Gallagher | party = Australian Labor Party | spouse = | children = | website = {{URL|http://www.katelundy.com.au}} | footnotes = }}

'''Kate Alexandra Lundy''' (born 15 December 1967) is an Australian former politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Australian Senate, representing the Australian Capital Territory. Lundy served as the Minister for Multicultural Affairs and the Minister Assisting for the Digital Economy in the Second Rudd Ministry;<ref name=dpmc>{{cite web|url=http://www.dpmc.gov.au/parliamentary/docs/ministry_list_20130701.pdf |title=Second Rudd Ministry |publisher=Commonwealth of Australia |date=5 July 2013 |access-date=2 July 2013 |work=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=sport>{{cite news|title=Kevin Rudd's new-look ministry|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-01/kevin-rudds-frontbench/4791002|publisher=ABC News|date= 1 July 2013 |access-date=1 July 2013}}</ref> having previously served as the Minister for Sport and the Minister Assisting the Minister for Industry and Innovation.

==Background and early career== Born in Sydney, Lundy left school without completing Year 11 and did not tell her parents.<ref name="QA"/> She went to work on a construction site. She became the trade union representative and began her career in the Building Workers' Industrial Union.<ref name="QA">{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/senators/lundy.htm |title=Senator Kate Lundy |work=Q&A |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=24 February 2010}}</ref>

==Political career== thumb|left|Lundy shortly after her election to Parliament. In 1996, aged 28, Lundy became the youngest woman from the Australian Labor Party to be elected to the federal parliament;<ref name="Kate Lundy to retire" /> since superseded by Kate Ellis. She replaced Bob McMullan in the Senate when he moved to a lower house seat in that year's election.

After the 1998 Australian federal election, Lundy was made Shadow Minister for Sport and Youth Affairs and Shadow Minister Assisting the Shadow Minister for Industry and Technology on Information Technology. In 2001, she became Shadow Minister for Information Technology and Sport. She added the Arts and Recreation to her responsibilities in 2003 after Mark Latham became federal Labor leader. She was Shadow Minister for Manufacturing and Consumer Affairs from October 2004 to June 2005, when she was appointed Shadow Minister for Sport and Recreation. With the election of Kevin Rudd as Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party in December 2006, the responsibilities of Health Promotion and Local Government were added to Lundy's responsibilities for Sport and Recreation.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

Following the 2007 federal election, Lundy was replaced by Kate Ellis, who was appointed as Minister for Sport and Minister for Youth.

On 11 September 2010, Lundy was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Citizenship as well as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Cabinet as part of the original Second Gillard Ministry.<ref name="ARN">{{cite web |url=http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/360335/communications_minister_stephen_conroy_gets_promoted_more_responsibilities/ |title=Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, gets promoted with more responsibilities |work=ARN |publisher=IDG Communications |access-date=11 September 2010}}</ref> In a subsequent reshuffle in March 2012, Lundy was appointed as the Minister for Sport following the retirement of Senator Mark Arbib, and she was also made Minister for Multicultural Affairs, and Minister Assisting the Minister for Industry and Innovation.<ref>{{cite news |agency=AAP |title=Lundy the perfect fit as sports minister |url=http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Lundy-the-perfect-fit-as-sports-minister-RZBLS?OpenDocument&src=hp7 |access-date=5 March 2012 |newspaper=Business Spectator |date=2 March 2012}}</ref> On 1 July 2013, as part of the Second Rudd Ministry, Lundy retained the portfolio of Multicultural Affairs and gained the portfolio of Minister Assisting for the Digital Economy. Don Farrell was appointed as Minister for Sport.<ref name=dpmc/><ref name=sport/>

Lundy is a member of the Socialist Left faction of Labor.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} She has been highly active on the issue of internet regulation, arguing against both the Howard government's and her own party's policy in that area. Lundy is also patron of the Canberra Rowing Club<ref name="QA"/><ref>{{cite web |publisher=Canberra Rowing Club |url=http://www.rowingact.org.au/CRC/ |title=About Us |access-date=28 October 2007 }}</ref> and the Pearcey Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pearcey.org.au/?title=About |title=Pearcey Foundation |publisher=Pearcey.org.au |date=20 September 2011 |access-date=27 June 2012}}</ref>

On 26 November 2014, Lundy announced that she would not stand for re-election at the 2016 federal election.<ref name="Kate Lundy to retire">{{cite news|last1=Thorpe|first1=Clarissa|title=Canberra-based senator Kate Lundy to retire at next federal election|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-26/act-senator-kate-lundy-will-not-stand-at-next-federal-election/5920718|access-date=26 November 2014|publisher=ABC News|date=26 November 2014}}</ref> She resigned from the Senate on 24 March 2015, and the next day former ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher was appointed as her replacement by the ACT Legislative Assembly.

==Awards== In 2010, Lundy won the International Top 10 People Changing the World of Internet and Politics at the 11th World eDemocracy Forum which was held in Paris, France.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.katelundy.com.au/2010/10/18/senator-lundy-wins-international-top-10-people-changing-the-world-of-internet-and-politics/ |title=Senator Lundy wins International Top 10 People Changing the World of Internet and Politics |publisher=Kate Lundy |date=18 October 2010 |access-date=27 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322021735/http://www.katelundy.com.au/2010/10/18/senator-lundy-wins-international-top-10-people-changing-the-world-of-internet-and-politics/ |archive-date=22 March 2012 }}{{self-published source|date=July 2013}}</ref>{{self-published source|date=July 2013}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category-inline}} *{{Official website|http://www.katelundy.com.au/}} *[https://archive.today/20121127191342/http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/TranslateWIPILink.aspx?Folder=BIOGS&Criteria=NAME_ID:7G6; Kate Lundy, Senate Biography] *[http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/special-features/the-big-read-act-senator-kate-lundy-talks-divorce-dismay-and-drugs-in-sport/story-fnho52jo-1226663408830 The Big Read: ACT Senator Kate Lundy talks divorce, dismay and drugs in sport Courier Mail 13 June 2013] * [https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/act/kate_lundy Summary of parliamentary voting for Senator Kate Lundy on TheyVoteForYou.org.au]

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