Kate Ellis

Katherine Margaret Ellis is an Australian politician and the 26th and current National President of the Australian Labor Party. She represented the Division of Adelaide in the Australian House of Representatives for the Australian Labor Party from 2004 until 2019. She served in multiple portfolios in the outer ministry of the Rudd–Gillard federal Labor government and was in the Shorten shadow cabinet. In March 2017 Ellis announced that she would step down from shadow cabinet as of the next reshuffle and leave parliament at the 2019 federal election.