Senator Kate Lundy is the Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister.

First elected to the Senate for the ACT in 1996, Kate began fulltime work at the age of sixteen as a labourer removing asbestos from building sites. Her political awareness grew on the job and she became a workplace delegate for the Building Workers Industrial Union (BWIU/ later the CFMEU). Kate began work as a full-time union organiser in 1986, working extensively in occupational health and safety, sustainable industry development, and later communications and information technology. The following year she was elected as Vice President of the ACT Branch of the BWIU and became the first woman to ever hold an executive position in the traditionally male dominated union. In 1988 she joined the executive of the ACT Trades and Labour Council and in 1993 became the youngest person and first woman elected as President of the Council.

In Opposition she held many portfolios including Information Technology, Sport and Recreation, Manufacturing, Consumer Affairs, Local Government and Health Promotion.

Kate is married and together with her husband they have a blended family of five children. She is also an active sportswoman and enjoys playing hockey, soccer and rowing when time permits.

Raven Calais joined the Department of Immigration and Citizenship in 2012 as the Accessibility Manager, working in the User Centred Design Competency Centre. Having extensive experience in a web development role (including 6 years in web accessibility), she has first-hand knowledge of the demands and pressures of a government web publishing environment.

Raven joined DIAC from the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO), where as a Senior Policy Officer she was responsible for endorsing and implementing WCAG 2.0 across the federal government. Raven is the co-author of the Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy (NTS), contributor to the PDF Accessibility Study and has developed a wealth of guidance on online accessibility published on the Web Guide. As a part of the Web Policy team, Raven advised on a number of other initiatives, including Online Advertising, Online Consultations (prelude to the Government 2.0 Taskforce), Social Media, Privacy and Archiving. Previously, Raven managed the Web Guide website and the Australian Government Style Manual.