Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Holt, Victoria at by-election 6.11.1999 vice the Hon. GJ Evans (resigned). Re-elected 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016.

Ministerial appointments

• Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister from 3.12.07 to 14.9.10.
• Parliamentary Secretary for Trade from 25.2.09 to 14.9.10.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Environment and Heritage from 1.6.00 to 8.10.01; Industry and Resources from 20.3.02 to 21.10.02; Members Interests from 2.12.04 to 17.10.07; Science and Innovation from 2.12.04 to 10.5.05; Petitions from 25.10.10 to 9.5.16.
• Joint Statutory: Corporations and Financial Services from 20.3.02 to 31.8.04; Australian Crime Commission from 2.12.04 to 12.9.05; ASIO, ASIS and DSD from 7.3.05 to 2.12.05; Intelligence and Security from 2.12.05 to 17.10.07, from 18.11.10 to 9.5.16 (Chair from 18.11.10 to 5.8.13 and Deputy Chair from 12.12.13 to 9.5.16) and from 15.9.16.
• Joint Standing: Treaties from 16.2.00 to 11.2.02; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 24.9.02 to 31.8.04, from 25.10.10 to 14.3.12 and from 19.9.12 to 5.8.13; Parliamentary Library from 17.10.2016

Parliamentary party positions

• Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 10.12.06 to 3.12.07.

Party positions

• President, ALP Endeavour Hills Branch.
• Member, ALP Public Office Selection Committee.
• Member, ALP Caucus Committee on Security and Defence.

Personal

• Born 1.12.1962, Adelaide, SA.

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• Chief Executive Officer, Anxiety Disorders Foundation of Australia 1994-96.
• Adviser to Senator JMA Collins 1996-99.

Electorate

Description: outer metropolitan.
Location: south-eastern Melbourne; it includes the suburbs of Clyde, Clyde North, Cranbourne, Cranbourne East, Cranbourne North, Cranbourne West, Doveton, Endeavour Hills, Eumemmerring, Hallam, Hampton Park, Lynbrook, Lyndhurst, Lysterfield South, Narre Warren, Narre Warren North and Narre Warren South.
Area: 131 sq km.
Electors enrolled: 116 291 (at 2.7.16).
Industries: retail, service and light industries.
State electorates: Holt includes parts of the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorates of Cranbourne, Dandenong, Narre Warren North, Narre Warren South and Rowville.