Dr Andrew Leigh MP – Parliament of Australia

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Member for Fraser, Australian Capital Territory

Party: Australian Labor Party
Chamber: House of Representatives

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Parliament Office

PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Telephone:: (02) 6277 4140
Fax:: (02) 6277 8469

Electorate Office

(Principal Office)

Unit 8/1 Torrens St
Braddon, ACT, 2612

Postal address
Unit 8/1 Torrens St
Braddon, ACT, 2612

Telephone:: (02) 6247 4396 or 6247 4037
Fax:: (02) 6247 3457

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Email: andrew.leigh.mp@aph.gov.au
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Websites: Personal website; Party website

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www.aph.gov.au/A_Leigh_MP

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Electorate details

Fraser, Australian Capital Territory

Biography

Party positions
Personal
Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament
Electorate
Publications

Parliamentary service

Elected to the House of Representatives for Fraser, Australian Capital Territory, 2010.

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Parliamentary positions

Member, Speaker's Panel from 7.2.12.

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Committee service

House of Representatives Standing: Economics from 25.10.10; Publications from 25.10.10.
Joint Standing: National Capital and External Territories from 25.10.10.

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Party positions

Member, ALP from 1991.

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Personal

Born 3.8.1972, Sydney, NSW.
Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

BA(Hons), LLB(Hons)(Syd.), MPA, PhD (Harvard).
Lawyer, Minter Ellison, Sydney and London 1995-1997.
High Court Associate to Justice Michael Kirby 1997-98.
Senior Trade Adviser to Senator the Hon. PFS Cook 1998-2000.
Research Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute, Washington DC, 2001.
Professor of Economics, Australian National University 2004-10.
Principal Adviser, Australian Treasury 2008-09.

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Electorate

Description: inner metropolitan.

Location: northern and central Canberra; it includes the central business district of Canberra, the suburbs of Ainslie, Braddon, Campbell, Dickson, Hackett, Lyneham, O'Connor and Watson, extending to Belconnen and Gungahlin. It also includes the southern coast district of Jervis Bay administered by the Australian Capital Territory.

Area: 513 sq km (approx.).

Electors enrolled: 123 444 (at 21.8.10).

Industries: retail and service industries, government and administration, agriculture, light industry and tourism.
Territory electorates: Fraser includes the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly electorate of Ginninderra and parts of Molonglo.

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Publications

The prince's new clothes: why do Australians dislike their politicians? (co-editor with D Burchell), University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2002.
Imagining Australia: ideas for our future (with M Duncan, D Madden and P Tynan), Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2004.
Disconnected, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2010.

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