Dr Andrew Southcott MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Boothby, South Australia, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010.

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Environment, Recreation and the Arts from 30.5.96 to 31.8.98; Legal and Constitutional Affairs from 30.5.96 to 31.8.98; Financial Institutions and Public Administration from 12.12.96 to 31.8.98; Economics, Finance and Public Administration from 8.12.98 to 31.8.04; Privileges (nominee of the Leader of the House) from 9.12.98 to 6.2.01; Ageing from 20.3.02 (Chair from 21.3.02) to 4.11.03; Health and Ageing from 3.2.10 to 19.7.10; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from 1.12.04 to 17.10.07; Education and Training from 11.3.08 to 3.2.10; Employment and Workplace Relations from 11.3.08 to 10.2.10.
• Joint Statutory: National Crime Authority from 14.5.98 to 31.8.98; Corporations and Securities from 8.12.98 to 11.2.02.
• Joint Standing: National Capital and External Territories from 26.6.96 to 31.8.98; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 4.9.97 to 11.2.02 and from 9.2.06 to 17.10.07; Treaties from 4.11.03 (Chair from 4.11.03) to 17.10.07; Migration from 1.12.04 to 17.10.07.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade visit to Papua New Guinea, March 1999.
• Member, Official Australian Observer Mission to the Indonesian Elections, June 1999.
• Leader, Parliamentary Delegation to India and Bangladesh, November-December 2000.
• Leader, Parliamentary Delegation to Indonesia and the Republic of Korea, July 2001.
• Parliamentary Adviser, United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), New York, September-December 2005.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to China and Hong Kong, November 2009.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Malaysia and Sri Lanka, December 2011.

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Parliamentary party positions

• Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Health Services, Health and Wellbeing from 8.12.09 to 14.9.10; Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Primary Healthcare from 14.9.10.
• Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 6.12.07 to 8.12.09. Shadow Minister for Employment Participation and Apprenticeships and Training from 6.12.07 to 22.9.08; Shadow Minister for Employment Participation, Training and Sport from 22.9.08 to 8.12.09.

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Party positions

• President, Young Liberals Brighton-Glenelg Branch 1989.
• President, Liberal Party Mitchell Branch 1994-95.
• President, Boothby Federal Electorate Committee 1994.
• Member, Liberal Party State Council (SA) 1994 and from 1996.

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Personal

• Born 15.10.1967 at Adelaide, SA.
• Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• MBBS, MBA (Adel), BEc (Flinders).
• Medical practitioner 1991-95: Intern 1991; Resident medical officer 1992-93; Surgical registrar 1994-95.

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Electorate

• Description: outer metropolitan.
  Location: southern Adelaide; it includes the suburbs of Belair, Blackwood, Brighton, Daw Park, Eden Hills, Marion, Mitcham, Panorama, St Marys and Seacliff.
  Area: 123 sq km (approx.).
  Electors enrolled: 97 898 (at 21.8.10).
  Industries: car manufacturing, army camp and military barracks, several hospitals, a number of nursing homes, various small industries.
  State electorates: Boothby includes the South Australian House of Assembly electorate of Waite, and parts of Bright, Davenport, Elder, Fisher, Mitchell, Morphett and Unley.

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