As a senior Cabinet Minister holding the Federal Government’s Finance, Women and the Public Service portfolios, Katy Gallagher is passionate about making women’s equal opportunity an economic and social priority of the Government. Gallagher's career spans disability advocacy to standing up for public service rights as a Community and Public Sector Union Organiser. As a Minister in the ACT Government and later as Chief Minister, Gallagher led a progressive and future-focused government that legislated marriage equality, started Australia’s first public nurse-led walk-in medical centres and committed the Government to a 100% renewable energy target by 2020.