Background
Ellis was born in Melbourne and grew up in rural South Australia in the Murray River town of Mannum where her mother worked as a teacher in the local primary school.
Ellis was born in Melbourne and grew up in rural South Australia in the Murray River town of Mannum where her mother worked as a teacher in the local primary school.
Flinders University.
She served in multiple portfolios in the outer ministry of the 2007-2013 federal Labor government and is now in shadow cabinet. Ellis moved to Adelaide for her secondary education, attending Daws Road High School. She enrolled but left without completing a Bachelor of International Studies at Flinders University.
While enrolled at Flinders she was General Secretary of the Students Association and an editor of Empire Times.
Ellis is linked with the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (Schools Development Authority). She was a ministerial adviser to South Australian state minister Rory McEwen and then for the former Deputy Premier of South Australia, Kevin Foley.
The margin was reduced to 7.7 points in 2010 and to 4.0 percent in 2013. After the 2007 election Ellis became Minister for Youth and Minister for Sport.
This made her the youngest person ever to become an Australian government minister, a record until then held by former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
In 2009 Ellis took on the portfolio of Early Childhood Education, Childcare and Youth. After the 2010 election, Ellis became the Minister for Employment Participation and Early Childhood and Childcare and the Minister for the Status of Women. Foreign a few months prior to the 2013 Labor government defeat, Ellis was the Minister for Early Childhood, Childcare and Youth.
Ellis was then elevated to shadow cabinet with the portfolios of Education and Early Childhood.
Political Positions
= Gay marriage Ellis voted in support of a gay marriage bill in 2012. = Safe Schools Coalition Australia Kate Ellis supports the Safe School Coalition Australia program
Ellis was elected to the House of Representatives for the Division of Adelaide, South Australia at the 2004 federal election, defeating Liberal Party incumbent Trish Worth on a 2 percent two-party swing to a margin of 1.3 points, increasing to 8.5 points in 2007.
A member of the Australian Labor Party, she worked as a research officer for state and federal parliamentarians.