Senator Richard Dowling

Senator Richard Dowling

Senator for TAS

Party
Australian Labor Party
Chamber
Senate

Seating Plan

Seating map

Electorate Office

(Principal Office)

Shop 3, Kingston Plaza, 20 Channel Highway
Kingston, TAS, 7050

Postal address

PO Box 320
Kingston, TAS, 7050

Telephone:
(03) 6229 4444

Parliament Office

PO Box 6100
Senate
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Telephone:
(02) 6277 3671

Speeches

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Biography

Parliamentary service
  • Elected to the Senate for Tasmania, 2025.
Parliamentary party positions
  • Australian Labor Party. Served: 01.07.2025 to present
Party positions
  • Delegate to the Australian Labor Party National Conference.
  • Delegate to the Australian Labor Party State (Tas.) Conference.
  • International Secretary of Australian Young Labor from 2006 to 2007.
Personal
  • Born: 18.9.1983, Fitzroy, Australia
  • Gender: Male
Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament
  • (BEc) (University of Tasmania).
  • (MBA) (University of Warwick).
  • Cook at KFC from 1999 to 2002.
  • Policy Analyst at the Department of Treasury & Finance (Tas.) from 2002 to 2007.
  • Chief Economist at the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 2007 to 2010.
  • Senior Economic Adviser to the Premier, the Hon. L Giddings, MHA (Tas.) from 2010 to 2014.
  • Government Affairs at Baxter Healthcare from 2014 to 2017.
  • Chief Economist and Head of Global Affairs at The Faraday Grid from 2017 to 2019.
  • Senior Director and Head of Asia Pacific at VMware from 2020 to 2024.

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