Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the Senate for Victoria 2019.

Committee service

• Senate Standing: Senators' Interests from 2.7.2019.
• Senate Select: Foreign Interference through Social Media from 5.12.2019.
• Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Environment and Communications: Legislation from 2.7.2019; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: Legislation from 2.7.2019 to 14.10.2019; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: Legislation from 3.2.2021.
• Joint Statutory: Human Rights from 2.7.2019 to 15.10.2019.
• Joint Standing: Trade and Investment Growth from 22.7.2019; Treaties from 21.10.2021.

Party positions

• Vice Chairman of the Macnamara/Melbourne Ports Federal Electorate Council from 2015 to 2016.
• Chairman of the Liberal Party Macnamara/Melbourne Ports Federal Electorate Council from 2016 to 2018.
• Chairman of the Liberal Party Albert Park State Electorate Council from 2016 to 2017.
• Membership and Branch Development Officer for the Liberal Party Macnamara/Melbourne Ports Federal Electorate Council from 2016 to 2017.
• Vice President of the Liberal Party Albert Park/South Melbourne Branch (Vic.) from 2017 to 2019.
• Chairman of the Liberal Party Macnamara/Melbourne Ports Federal Electorate Council from 2018 to 2019.

Personal

• Born 14.11.1964, Melbourne, Australia

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• (MA(IR)) (Monash University).
• BAppSc (University of Melbourne).
• (DipInvRel) (Australian Investor Relations Association).
• Public Affairs Consultant from 1995 to 2019.