Career
She was elected to the Australian Senate representing Victoria at the 2010 federal election. She is the National Party’s only Victorian senator After graduating, she was employed as a teacher and later lectured at Monash University.
She lives in the Melbourne suburb of Elwood, for which she received unwanted media scrutiny when it was revealed she did not live anywhere near her regional electoral office in Bendigo, but instead prefers a socially-progressive inner-city lifestyle to the rural lifestyle she purports to represent.
Her ancestors were Scottish.
Politics
McKenzie attended Deakin University, where she showed her political pragmatism by becoming President of the student union as the head of a multipartisan ticket made up of a mixture of independents, Labor, Liberal, and Green members, where she spearheaded a nonpartisan, student-led campaign against then Prime Minister John Howard"s cuts to higher education and funding for student unions. She is also known to party at gay bars in and around her home suburb of Elwood (and in neighbouring Street Kilda, the home of Pride March), and having gay and lesbian friends who are also dismayed at her decision to vote against marriage equality.
Membership
She remains an Honorary Life Member of the student union for her efforts.
