The Hon Tony Abbott MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Warringah, New South Wales at by-election 26.3.1994 vice the Hon. MJR MacKellar (resigned). Re-elected 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010.

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Ministerial appointments

• Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs from 11.3.96 to 21.10.98.
• Minister for Employment Services from 21.10.98 to 30.1.01.
• Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business from 30.1.01 to 26.11.01.
• Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations from 26.11.01 to 7.10.03.
• Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service from 26.11.01 to 7.10.03.
• Minister for Health and Ageing from 7.10.03 to 3.12.07.

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Banking, Finance and Public Administration from 5.5.94 to 29.1.96; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from 11.3.08 to 3.2.10; Family, Community, Housing and Youth from 11.3.08 to 3.2.10.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Official visits to New Zealand, April 1999; UK and Switzerland, April-May 2002; France and UK, September-October 2003; Canada, October 2005; New Zealand, April 2006; Japan, Indonesia, China and Japan, June-July 2006; Indonesia, March 2007; China, April 2007; UK and United Arab Emirates, October 2010; Japan, December 2010; New Zealand, March 2011; UK, United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan, November 2011.

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Parliamentary party positions

• Leader of the House from 26.11.01 to 3.12.07.
• Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 6.12.07. Shadow Minister for Families, Community Services, Indigenous Affairs and the Voluntary Sector from 6.12.07 to 22.9.08; Shadow Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs from 22.9.08.
• Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party from 1.12.09.
• Leader of the Opposition from 1.12.09.

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Personal

• Born 4.11.1957, London, UK.
• Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BEc, LLB (Syd), MA (Oxon).
• Rhodes Scholar.
• Journalist.
• Plant Manager, Pioneer Concrete.
• Press secretary and political adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, Dr JR Hewson 1990-93.
• Executive Director, Australians for Constitutional Monarchy 1993-94.

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Electorate

• Description: inner metropolitan.
  
  Location: northern Sydney; it includes the suburbs of Allambie, Allambie Heights, Balgowlah, Balgowlah Heights, Balmoral, Beacon Hill, Beauty Point, Brookvale, Cremorne, Curl Curl, Fairlight, Forestville, Freshwater, Killarney Heights, Manly, Manly Vale, Mosman, Queenscliff, Seaforth and parts of Beacon Hill, Dee Why, Frenchs Forest and Narraweena.
  
  Area: 73 sq km (approx.).
  
  Electors enrolled: 96 707 (at 21.8.10).
  Industries: Manufacturing, construction, retail, professional, scientific and technical services, health care and social assistance, service and leisure industries.
  
  State electorates: Warringah includes the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Manly, and parts of North Shore, Wakehurst and Willoughby.
  

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Publications

• Battlelines, Melbourne University Press, 2009.

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