Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the Senate for Victoria 2010. Re-elected 2016. Resigned 26.8.2020.

Committee service

• Joint Statutory: Human Rights served from 12.12.2016 to 13.12.2016
• Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Finance and Public Administration: Legislation served from 5.7.2011 to 11.11.2013; Finance and Public Administration: References served from 5.7.2011 to 11.11.2013; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: Legislation served as Substitute member from 18.8.2011 to 19.9.2011; Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: References served as Substitute member from 16.5.2013 to 23.7.2013; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: Legislation served as Substitute member from 17.7.2014 to 10.11.2014; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: Legislation served as Substitute member from 12.2.2015 to 11.8.2015; Finance and Public Administration: References served as Substitute member from 10.8.2017 to 16.10.2017
• Senate Select: Abbott Government's Commission of Audit served from 12.12.2013 to 18.12.2013; Abbott Government's Commission of Audit served as Chair from 19.12.2013 to 19.6.2014; Health served from 7.7.2014 to 25.6.2015; Scrutiny of Government Budget Measures served from 7.7.2014 to 9.7.2014; Scrutiny of Government Budget Measures served as Chair from 10.7.2014 to 15.6.2015; Strengthening Multiculturalism served as Chair from 7.2.2017 to 17.8.2017; Political Influence of Donations served from 17.8.2017 to 6.6.2018; Obesity Epidemic in Australia served from 10.5.2018 to 17.5.2018; Obesity Epidemic in Australia served as Chair from 18.5.2018 to 5.12.2018; Jobs for the Future in Regional Areas served from 31.7.2019 to 5.8.2019; Jobs for the Future in Regional Areas served as Chair from 6.8.2019 to 4.12.2019

Parliamentary party positions

• Australian Greens. Served: 01.07.2011 to 26.08.2020
• Australian Greens Spokesperson on Health (including Preventive), Dental Health, Sport, Gambling, Multiculturalism, East Timor and West Papua from 1.7.2011 to 11.11.2013.
• Australian Greens Spokesperson on Health, Dental Health, Sport, Gambling and Multiculturalism from 11.11.2013 to 1.7.2014.
• Australian Greens Spokesperson on Health, Multiculturalism and Sport from 1.7.2014 to 25.5.2015.
• Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Australian Greens from 6.5.2015 to 3.2.2020.
• Australian Greens Spokesperson on Prime Minister and Cabinet, Health, Sport and Multiculturalism from 25.5.2015 to 25.8.2016.
• Australian Greens Spokesperson on Health, Sport and Multiculturalism from 25.8.2016 to 5.7.2019.
• Australian Greens Spokesperson on Health, Multiculturalism, Foreign Policy and Climate Change and Energy (Senate) from 5.7.2019 to 26.8.2020.

Party positions

• Founding Member of the Australian Greens Melbourne and Moreland Branches.
• National Councillor of the Australian Greens.
• State Councillor of the Australian Greens (Vic.).
• Regional Councillor of the Australian Greens.
• Policy Co-ordinator of the Australian Greens (Vic.) from 2005 to 2006.
• Co-ordinator for the Australian Greens Strategic Plan, 2007.

Personal

• Born: 6.6.1970, Melbourne, Australia
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• MBBS (Monash University).
• MHS (La Trobe University).
• MPH (La Trobe University).
• FAFPHM (Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine).
• FACRRM (Australasian College of Rural and Remote Medicine).
• General Practitioner at Aboriginal Health Service, Tennant Creek (NT), Community Health, Brunswick and Fitzroy, (Vic.) and rural locum work from 1996 to 2002.
• Public Health Registrar at the Department of Human Services from 2002 to 2005.
• International Public Health, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne from 2005 to 2007. .
• Farmer, Otway Ranges (Vic.) from 2007.
• Drug and Alcohol Clinician, Geelong (Vic.) from 2008. .