Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Rankin, Queensland, 2013. Re-elected 2016 and 2019.

Committee service

• Joint Select: Trade and Investment Growth from 2.10.2014 to 22.10.2015.
• House of Representatives Standing: Economics from 4.12.2013 to 19.10.2015; Tax and Revenue from 4.12.2013 to 22.10.2015.

Parliamentary party positions

• Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition from 18.10.2013 to 13.10.2015.
• Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Trade and Investment from 18.10.2013 to 13.10.2015.
• Shadow Assistant Minister for Trade and Investment from 13.10.2015 to 23.7.2016.
• Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation from 13.10.2015 to 23.7.2016.
• Shadow Assistant Minister for Productivity from 13.10.2015 to 23.7.2016.
• Shadow Minister for Sport from 13.10.2015 to 23.7.2016.
• Shadow Assistant Minister for Resources from 4.5.2016 to 23.7.2016.
• Shadow Minister for Finance from 23.7.2016 to 2.6.2019.
• Shadow Treasurer from 2.6.2019.

Party positions

• Officeholder of Australian Labor Party local branch positions from 1997.
• Secretary of the Australian Labor Party National Policy Committee from 2003 to 2004.
• Delegate for Rankin to the Australian Labor Party State Conference from 2011.

Personal

• Born 2.3.1978, Brisbane, Australia
• Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• PhD (Australian National University).
• BCom (Griffith University).
• BA (Griffith University).
• Research officer at the Department of Premier and Cabinet (Qld) from 1999 to 2001.
• Tutor in politics and public policy at Australian National University and the University of Canberra, 2001.
• National Research Manager for the Australian Labor Party from 2002 to 2004.
• Media Adviser to the Shadow Treasurer from 2005 to 2006.
• Deputy Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Opposition, 2006.
• Senior Adviser to the Premier (NSW) from 2006 to 2007.
• General Manager of CPR (Qld), 2007.
• Deputy Chief of Staff and Principal Adviser to the Treasurer from 2007 to 2010.
• Chief of Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer from 2010 to 2013.
• Executive Director of the Chifley Research Centre, 2013.

Electorate

• Name: Rankin
• Location: The Division of Rankin consists of: part of the Brisbane City Council, and part of the Logan City Council.
• Area: 131 Sq km
• Electors enrolled: 103,551 (at 7.6.2019)
• Industries: A diversity of land use, from residential and acreage suburbs to light industrial.

Publications

• Glory Daze: how a world-beating nation got so down on itself, MUP, Melbourne, 2013.
• Changing Jobs: the Fair Go in the New Machine Age (with M Quigley), Schwartz Publishing, Carlton, (Vic.), 2017.