Katy Gallagher , MLA

	Deputy Chief Minister
	Minister for Health
	Minister for Children and Youth
	Minister for Disability and Community Services
	Minister for Women
	Phone: (02) 6205 0840
	Fax: (02) 6205 3030
	Address: GPO Box 1020, Canberra ACT 2601
	Email: gallagher@act.gov.au
	Website: www.katygallagher.net

Katy Gallagher MLA was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a Labor Member for Molonglo in November 2001, and joined the Stanhope Ministry in December 2002. In the 2004 election, Katy was re-elected to the electorate of Molonglo.

Katy was born in 1970 and grew up in the newly settled Weston Creek area. She attended Duffy Primary, Melrose High and Stirling College before completing a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science and Sociology) at the Australian National University in 1990.

Before her election, Katy worked for five years as an organiser for the Community and Public Sector Union, representing the industrial interests of employees in the Commonwealth public sector. Prior to this, Katy worked for People First ACT, an organisation providing advocacy and support to individuals with an intellectual disability and was a project worker for Woden Community Service, in a community life skills project, working with children with disabilities.

As Minister for Children, Youth and Family Support, Katy oversaw the review and reinvigoration of child protection services for ACT's children and young people. The rigorous reforms arising from the Vardon Review into the Territories Children and Young People, has ensured that the government has the enhanced focus and capacity it requires in order to give children and young people the best opportunity in which to flourish. Katy continues to stand up tothe challenges presented by her current areas, and in particular those relatively new portfolio areas of health, disability and community services.