She has been a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2018 state election, representing Badcoe in the inner south-western suburbs of Adelaide.
Stinson worked as a broadcast journalist for ABC News,[1] Network Ten, Channel Seven and media agencies in Cambodia, India and Rwanda[2] before her election.
[3][1] Stinson has also worked for the Law Society of South Australia and as an adviser to the Rudd and Gillard Labor governments.
[2] Stinson was appointed to the front bench upon her election in 2018, taking up the portfolios of Child Protection and Arts.
[4] She was later promoted to the Planning and Development[5] and Multicultural Affairs [6] portfolios, while retaining Arts.