[1] She is an associate director of the consulting firm Government Relations Australia, and was an adviser in the Adelaide office of federal sports minister Kate Ellis.
[2] At the age of fourteen she wrote a speech on the concept of a Children's National Council, which was delivered in Federal Parliament, Canberra by Rod Sawford MP.
[6] She held the position of Vice President of the Youth Affairs Council of South Australia from 1998 until 2000 and was a member of the Management and Executive committees of YACSA from 1995 until 2002.
[1] Handshin was chosen to attend The World Summit of Children held in Taiwan in 1997 and as Australia's representative to the First International Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's Youth Parliament in Manchester at which she was elected Prime Minister.
Action 2000, Tour and Forum in Canada and was a delegate to the Young People's Conference on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Manila, Philippines.
[1] Handshin was nominated as a high-profile candidate in the 2007 election, standing for the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the traditionally fairly safe Liberal federal seat of Sturt against incumbent Christopher Pyne.