The Hon Greg Hunt MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Flinders, Victoria, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010.

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Ministerial appointments

• Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage from 26.10.04 to 30.1.07.
• Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 30.1.07 to 3.12.07.

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Ageing from 20.3.02 to 31.8.04; Environment and Heritage from 20.3.02 to 31.8.04; Climate, Change, Water, Environment and the Arts from 3.2.10 to 10.2.10.
• Joint Statutory: Corporations and Financial Services from 20.3.02 to 31.8.04.
• Joint Standing: Treaties from 5.6.02 to 31.8.04.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Official visits to South Africa, June 2006; China, September-October 2006; New Zealand, November 2006; Sweden, January 2007; Indonesia, October 2007 and December 2007.

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Parliamentary party positions

• Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 6.12.07. Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Urban Water from 6.12.07 to 22.9.08; Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Water from 22.9.08 to 8.12.09; Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage from 8.12.09.

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Party positions

• Member, Liberal Party from 1994.

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Personal

• Born 18.11.1965, Frankston, Vic.
• Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BA(Hons), LLB(Hons I) (Melb), MA (Yale).
• University Prize, Final Year Thesis, Melbourne University; Yale Fellowship; Schell Centre for Human Rights Fellowship, Yale Law School.
• Captain, Australian Universities Debating Team 1990.
• Articled Clerk, Malleson Stephen Jacques 1991-92.
• Associate to Chief Justice of the Australian Federal Court 1992.
• Fulbright Scholar and Teaching Assistant, Yale University 1992-94.
• Senior Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, AJG Downer, MP 1994-95.
• Senior Adviser to the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, AJG Downer, MP 1995-96.
• Senior Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. AJG Downer, MP 1996-98.
• Chief, Australian Electoral Observer Mission to Cambodia 1998.
• Senior Fellow, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Melbourne 1998-99.
• Engagement Manager, McKinsey and Co 1999-2001.
• Director of Strategy, World Economic Forum, Geneva 2000-01.

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Electorate

• Description: rural.
  Location: southern Victoria, east of Melbourne, based on Mornington Peninsula and Bass Coast region; it includes the centres of Baxter, Cowes, Dalyston, Dromana, Hastings, Koo Wee Rup, Mt Martha, Nyora, Pearcedale, Rosebud, Rye, San Remo, Somerville and French and Phillip Islands.
  Area: 1955 sq km (approx.).
  Electors enrolled: 100 875 (at 21.8.10).
  Industries: steel-rolling mill, dairy farms, fishing, poultry, wineries, orchards, light industries and tourism.
  State electorates: Flinders includes the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate of Nepean, and parts of Bass, Hastings and Mornington.
  

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