Overview

• Walker secured Labor’s third Senate ticket in South Australia, toppling a record previously held by Jordan Steele-John to become the youngest senator on record.
• She achieved the unlikely victory through Australia’s ranked-choice voting system despite registering the lowest initial vote among the state’s six successful candidates.
• Her campaign focused on issues facing millennials and Gen Z, including reducing HECS university debts, curbing living costs and amplifying young people’s voices.
• Walker will attend 'Senate school' in Canberra before her six-year term and will draw a base salary of over A$200,000 per year.
• As the first federal parliamentarian born this century, her election advances Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s goal of a 57% female Labor caucus when the new Parliament sits on July 22.