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Prior to entering the Senate, Jan was a Councillor on the Cairns City Council. She trained as a Primary School teacher at the Townsville College of Advanced Education, now James Cook University and taught for 10 years in north and far north Queensland. Jan was active in the Queensland Teachers Union during this time and values her association with the Union. She was also active in the broader Union movement and was Secretary of the Cairns and District Provincial Trades and Labor Council in the late 1980s. She has been involved in a range of community-based organisations, including childcare, environment and heritage and women’s groups.
She was a member of the Regional Advisory Group of the Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy in the late 1990s. Currently Jan chairs the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Works and is a member of the Senate Privileges Committee and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services.
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Jan McLucas was elected to the Australian Senate in 1998 and began her term as a Queensland Senator in July 1999.
Jan considers herself to be fortunate to have been able to work with the indigenous peoples of north Queensland, including Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait.