Jenny Goldie was on the staff of Senator John Coulter from 1988-1993 and remained friends until his death. She is a former science teacher and CSIRO science communicator. She co-founded Australians for an Ecologically Sustainable Population in 1988 which later became Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). Jenny is immediate past-president of SPA and currently its NSW president. She founded Climate Action Monaro in 2011 and was recently re-elected president. She actively engages in public discussion of population and climate issues.