Jess Moore is a well-known community activist and part-time worker and a leading climate and renewable energy campaigner in Wollongong.[1] She is a member of the Socialist Alliance and is active in the struggle for marriage equality and helped found the Illawarra Aboriginal Rights Group, set up in response to the Northern Territory intervention.
Moore was President of the Wollongong Undergraduate Students' Association in 2006 and was the national co-ordinator of Resistance, a socialist youth organisation, in 2010.
While President of WUSA, Moore received a phonecall from the police informing her that she was under investigation for her activism on campus, around anti-war/Palestinian self-determination campaigns. The investigation made national[2] and international[3] news.
In 2011, Moore won the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales “Rising Star” award for being the “most outstanding campaigner under the age of 30”[4] for her involvement in groups such as Stop CSG Illawarra. Moore is widely recognised as a public face and spokesperson of the campaign.[5]
Moore has run as a Socialist Alliance candidate in the Division of Cunningham for the Australian federal election, 2007 and Australian federal election, 2010 and as a candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Council in the New South Wales state election, 2011.