Lisa has been a lifelong advocate for working women, equal pay, and action on gender equality and eradicating family violence. 

Lisa began her involvement with the Australian Services Union while serving as a workplace delegate in the community sector. She holds a Bachelor of Business and a Diploma of Community Development.  

At the ASU, she led the landmark Equal Pay Campaign across Victoria and Tasmania, which won pay rises of 23-45 per cent for the predominantly female social and community services workforce.  

Lisa’s career has focused on fighting for fairness, dignity, and progress. 

She represented Local Government workers at the Surf Coast Shire, where the ASU won the world’s first family and domestic violence leave entitlements, now part of the National Employment Standards. In 2006, she coordinated the Your Rights At Work campaign from Victorian Trades Hall Council. For this work, she was the inaugural winner of the Zelda D’Aprano Award for feminist activism in 2015 and was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll for Women in 2016. 

In 2017, Lisa became Branch Secretary of the Victorian and Tasmanian Services Branch of the ASU. She served as Board Chair of Vision Super from 2021 until her appointment as Senator for Victoria in May 2024. 

Lisa is passionate about improving the rights of workers in Australia, fighting for women’s economic security and protecting Australia’s unique biodiversity.  

Lisa lives in Melbourne with her husband Luke and two young sons.