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3 October 2026

Tragedy and loss helped forge Steph Hodgins-May into a steely climate campaigner. Now she’s taking on Anthony Albanese

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Tragedy and loss helped forge Steph Hodgins-May into a steely climate campaigner. Now she’s taking on Anthony Albanese

Greens party elders describe her obvious talent and determination to change things for the better, while political rivals’ verdicts vary wildly Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast It was during a visit to Samoa, soon after her mum was killed in the 2009 tsunami, that Steph Hodgins-May decided she could no longer work as a corporate lawyer. Born in Ballarat to a fifth-generation farmer and school teacher, the new deputy leader of the Greens says she had always been passionate about the climate crisis, and talking politics at the dinner table with her dad, an organic farmer, a local councillor and later, mayor. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here

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