Mr Michael Keenan MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Stirling, Western Australia, 2004, 2007 and 2010.

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Communications, Information Technology and the Arts from 1.12.04 to 17.10.07; Economics, Finance and Public Administration from 9.2.06 to 17.10.07; Economics from 11.3.08 to 25.9.08; Employment and Workplace Relations from 10.11.08 to 19.7.10; Legal and Constitutional Affairs from 3.2.10 to 19.7.10.
• Joint Statutory: Corporations and Financial Services from 11.3.08 to 10.11.08; Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity from 3.2.10 to 19.7.10; Australian Crime Commission from 3.2.10 to 25.11.10; Law Enforcement from 25.11.10.
• Joint Standing: Migration from 1.12.04 to 17.10.07; Treaties from 11.8.05 to 17.10.07; National Capital and External Territories from 26.5.10 to 19.7.10.
• Joint Select: Christmas Island Tragedy from 22.3.11 to 29.6.11; Australia's Immigration Detention Network from 21.6.11 to 30.3.12.

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Parliamentary party positions

• Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 6.12.07. Shadow Assistant Treasurer from 6.12.07 to 22.9.08; Shadow Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Governance from 6.12.07 to 22.9.08; Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations from 22.9.08 to 8.12.09; Shadow Minister for Justice, Customs and Border Protection from 8.12.09.

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Party positions

• Deputy Director, Liberal Party (WA) 2000-01.
• President, Liberal Party Mount Lawley Branch 2003-04.
• Member, Coalition Foreign Policy and Defence Committee.

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Personal

• Born 19.3.1972, Perth, WA.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BA (Murdoch and Charles University, Prague), BA(Hons) (ANU), MPhil (Cantab).
• Milk delivery, waiter, bar attendant and salesman 1986-94.
• Real estate salesman 1993-96.
• Ministerial adviser to the ACT Deputy Chief Minister 1996-98.
• Various positions, Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge University and the London Daily Telegraph 1998-99.
• Deputy Director, Liberal Party (WA) 2000-01.
• Ministerial adviser to the Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator the Hon. AE Vanstone 2001-03.
• Property consultant, Irving and Keenan Real Estate 2003-04.

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Electorate

• Description: inner metropolitan.
  Location: northern Perth; it includes the suburbs of Balcatta, Balga, Carine, Gwelup, Hamersley, Karrinyup, Mirrabooka, Nollamara, North Beach, Scarborough, Stirling and Westminster, and parts of Dianella, Doubleview, Innaloo, Woodlands and Yokine.
  
  Area: 77 sq km (approx.).
  
  Electors enrolled: 91 728 (at 21.8.10).
  
  Industries: light industries, market gardens, boat building, shoe factories, food processing, clothing and chemical production.
  
  State electorates: Stirling includes the Western Australian Legislative Assembly electorate of Balcatta, and parts of Carine, Girrawheen, Morley, Mount Lawley, Nollamara, Scarborough.
  

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Publications

• Liberalism and the Australian Federation (chapter, ed. JR Nethercote), Annandale, NSW: Federation Press, 2001.

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