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The Hon Stephen Jones MP, Assistant Treasurer & Minister for Financial Services will Address the National Press Club of Australia on "Fighting Scammers, Fighting for Australians ".

 The digital economy has brought enormous benefits to Australians. It has enabled faster payments, better communications and instant access to global markets for goods, services, and ideas. It has also brought with it new social, economic and democratic harms – including a pandemic of scams which must be confronted. In this address Stephen Jones will talk about the Australian Government fight against the criminal scammers, how it fits in our broader digital agenda and why we are one of the only countries that has succeeded in reducing scam losses and what comes next. 

BIO:

Stephen Jones is the Assistant Treasurer and Financial Services Minister who has represented the Illawarra-based, regional electorate of Whitlam for Labor since 2010.

Stephen grew up in the Illawarra, graduating from Wollongong University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Politics.

He then worked as a disability support worker while studying for his law degree at Macquarie University.

He went on to work as an industrial relations lawyer and became National Secretary of the CPSU, one of Australia’s biggest and most progressive unions.

Since coming to Parliament, Stephen has been a strong representative for regional communities as the Shadow Minister for Regional Services and Regional Communications between 2016 and 2019. For the past 5 years, he has served in the Treasury portfolio, being sworn in as the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services in 2022.

Stephen is a passionate advocate for consumers, leading the Albanese Government's world-leading anti-scam agenda. This advocacy guides his focus in ensuring the financial system supports better outcomes for consumers, particularly in the superannuation sector, digital economy and banking sector.