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Lee is the Australian Greens spokesperson on women. As a Greens MP in the NSW Parliament for over a decade Lee held the women’s portfolio and campaigned on funding for an Office of Women, women's health, the working rights of women, better services and laws for women subject to domestic violence and abortion law reform. 

In the federal sphere Lee is continuing to champion women’s rights, including work/life balance and women’s representation in politics. She is also working on reproductive health as part of her work in the foreign aid portfolio. Lee founded the annual Juanita Nielsen Memorial lecture in 2001. Juanita was a community activist who disappeared feared murdered for her stance against overdevelopment in Kings Cross.

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Are Abbott’s careful words a smokescreen on RU486?

02 May 2013
After the announcement that the abortion drugs RU486 and Misoprostol could be approved for tax subsidy by the government, Green...
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Abbott must speak definitively on where he stands on women’s reproductive rights

26 Apr 2013
Greens spokesperson on women Senator Lee Rhiannon has questioned whether women can trust opposition leader Tony Abbott’s ...
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Health Minister should move fast on abortion pill PBS listing

26 Apr 2013
With the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee expected to recommend today that RU486 and Misoprostol be listed on the Pha...
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Background paper - Abortion Pill PBS listing

26 Apr 2013
 In the lead up to the independent Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee’s recommendation that RU486 and Misopr...
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Federal funding needed to help with abortion costs

02 Apr 2013
The Australian Greens are deeply concerned that Children by Choice, a not-for-profit organisation, will no longer be able to he...
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Speech: United Nations, Violence Against Women

18 Mar 2013
Senator Rhiannon spoke in response to the United Nations communique on violence against women and work in Australia and around ...
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Adjournment speech - Immigrant Women's Speakout Association

13 Mar 2013
Lee gave an adjourment speech on last year's 30 year anniversary of the community group the Immigrant Women's Speakout Association.
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Women's spokesperson Lee Rhiannon reflects on International Women's Day

08 Mar 2013
Australian Greens spokesperson for women Senator Lee Rhiannon outlines the Greens ten priorities for helping achieve women's e...
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International Women's Day - Greens announce top 10 priorities for action

08 Mar 2013
On International Women's Day the Australian Greens have called on the Gillard government to get behind ten priority areas to he...
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Labor and the Opposition should pledge to resist Madigan's pro-life move

27 Feb 2013
The Australian Greens are calling on both Labor and the Opposition to voice their support for women's right to choose and pledg...
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