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Senator the Hon Matt Thistlethwaite

Matthew Thistlethwaite

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Senator for New South Wales

Positions
Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs
Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs
Party
Australian Labor Party
Chamber
Senate

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Contact details

Parliament Office

PO Box 6100
Senate
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Telephone:
(02) 6277 3545
Fax:
(02) 6277 5978

Electorate Office

(Principal Office)

Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices, Suite 4, Level 12
70 Phillip Street
Sydney, NSW, 2000

Postal address
Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices, Suite 4, Level 12, 70 Phillip Street
Sydney, NSW, 2000

Telephone:
(02) 9241 7730
Fax:
(02) 9247 8387

Connect with Matt Thistlethwaite

Email
senator.thistlethwaite@aph.gov.au
Websites
Personal website
Party website

Alternative URL

www.aph.gov.au/Senator_Thistlethwaite

Speeches

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State

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

  • Elected to the Senate for New South Wales 2010 (term began 1.7.2011).

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Ministerial appointments

  • Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs from 25.3.13.
  • Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs from 25.3.13.

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Committee service

  • Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Education, Employment and Workplace Relations: Legislation Committee from 1.7.11.
  • Senate Select: Scrutiny of New Taxes from 1.7.11 to 1.11.11; Electricity Prices from 23.8.12.
  • Joint Statutory: Corporations and Financial Services from 1.7.11; Public Accounts and Audit from 1.7.11; Human Rights from 13.3.12.
  • Joint Standing: Treaties from 1.7.11; Gambling Reform from 27.6.12.
  • Joint Select: Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples from 29.11.12; Broadcasting Legislation from 14.3.13.

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Party positions

  • President, NSW Young Labor 1997-98.
  • Chair, ALP Law Reform Committee 2001-08.
  • Chair, ALP Review Tribunal 2004-08.
  • Secretary, Kingsford Smith Federal Electorate Council 2005-08.
  • General Secretary, ALP (NSW) 2008-10.

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Personal

  • Born 6.9.1972, Sydney, NSW.
  • Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

  • BEc (UNSW), DipLaw, DipLegalPrac (UTS).
  • Industrial officer, Australian Workers' Union 1995-2004.
  • Deputy Secretary, Unions NSW 2004-08.
  • Solicitor, Mallesons Stephen Jaques from 2010.

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