About

Lee’s bio

Lee Rhiannon has worked in the social justice and environment movement for five decades. She is a qualified zoologist and botanist.

Prior to commencing working with the Greens in 1998, Lee was the Director of AID/WATCH, the coordinator of the NSW Coalition for Gun Control and a member of the Women’s Advisory Council to the NSW Government. She has worked for a number of unions.

Lee is particularly committed to sharing the skills she has gathered over five decades of campaigning.

She was elected to the NSW parliament in 1999 and the Senate in 2010. As a Greens NSW MP and as a Senator Lee worked on a range of issues including exposing corporate political donation scandals, supporting climate action and local environmental campaigns, backing public ownership of public assets and services and promoting workers’ rights.

Lee resigned from the Senate in August 2018. She continues to work with a range of communities.

Lee’s details can be found under the “Contact” section of this website.

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In 2011 Suellen Murray wrote a chapter on Lee for the book “Founders, Firsts and Feminists”.

Abstract from the chapter “Lee Rhiannon: A Lifetime of Political Activism

“For over 40 years, Lee Rhiannon has been active in Australian politics. She was a leader of numerous social movement campaigns before becoming a Greens member of parliament in the New South Wales upper house in 1999 and then winning a seat in the Australian Senate, which she will take up in July 2011. Rhiannon has been a strong advocate for a range of environmental and social justice issues, and continues to support political processes that promote participatory democracy.