How Kim Jackson is carving her own path beyond 'Atlassian co-founder's wife'


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“I did a lot of male-dominated things through that period,” Ms Jackson says. “I worked every Christmas holidays at the aluminium smelter near Yeppoon. I was on a scholarship with Comalco Engineering and I worked … on the floor of the smelter wearing my King Gee pants and top, 1000-volt boots and hard hat and respirator. During that period, I got my crane licence and forklift licence and I was the only girl in my crew. I felt very happy there.”



I was always either the only or one of two females in a room. I just really want to change that.


Kim Jackson


After graduating, Ms Jackson moved into investment banking – “again 90 per cent-plus male dominated” – at Salomon Smith Barney, which became Citigroup, and Hastings Fund Management, before moving on to board positions, including at Transgrid and Electronet.


Along the way, Ms Jackson met Mr Farquhar “through mutual friends” and married him.


“That’s a long way of saying I was always either the only or one of two females in a room,” she says. “I just really want to change that.”


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