Rose Jackson

Rose Jackson
Jackson in 2019
Minister for Water
Assumed office
5 April 2023
PremierChris Minns
Preceded byKevin Anderson
Minister for Housing
Minister for Homelessness
Assumed office
5 April 2023
PremierChris Minns
Preceded byAnthony Roberts
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
Assumed office
8 May 2019
Preceded byLynda Voltz
Councillor of Waverley Council
for Lawson Ward
In office
13 September 2008 – 8 September 2012
Personal details
Born1984 or 1985 (age 39–40)[1]
Political partyLabor Party
ResidenceRockdale[2]
Alma materUniversity of Sydney

Rose Butler Jackson is an Australian Labor Party politician serving as a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 8 May 2019. Since 5 April 2023, she has been serving in the Minns ministry as Minister for Water, Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness, Minister for Mental Health, Minister for Youth, and Minister for the North Coast. She is the former Assistant General Secretary of NSW Labor.

Jackson is a former Secretary of the New South Wales Labor Left faction and associated with the majority hard-left subfaction within Labor Left.[3][4]

As a member of the NSW Labor Parliamentary Caucus, Jackson has called on the party to implement drug law reform including the legalisation of cannabis.[5] Jackson has also called for strong industrial relations reform, like criminalising wage theft, and criminal justice reform in NSW.[6]

  1. ^ Cormack, Lucy; Rabe, Tom (11 June 2021). "Real generational change: Chris Minns reveals new Labor frontbech". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  2. ^ "Candidates - Legislative Council Group D: LABOR". Elections NSW. New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Chris Minns's Victory in New South Wales Consolidates the Labor Right's Hegemony". jacobin.com. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  4. ^ Visentin, Lisa (8 April 2019). "Rose Jackson to enter NSW Parliament after Left faction's endorsement". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
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  6. ^ Jackson, Rose (5 June 2019). "First Speech in Parliament" (PDF). NSW Parliament Legislative Council Hansard: 1–5.