The Hon Kevin Andrews MP, Member for Menzies (Vic)
Parliamentary Service
Elected to the House of Representatives for Menzies, Victoria, at by-election 11.5.1991, vice the Hon. NA Brown, QC (resigned).
Re-elected 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2004.
Parliamentary Positions
Member, Speaker's Panel from 4.3.98 to 8.10.01.
Ministerial Appointments
Minister for Ageing from 26.11.01 to 07.10.03.
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations from 07.10.03.
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service from 7.10.03.
Committee Service
House of Representatives Standing: Long Term Strategies from 21.6.91 to 8.2.93; Legal and Constitutional Affairs from 19.12.91 to 8.2.93 and from 30.5.96 (Chair from 30.5.96) to 8.10.01; Privileges from 25.6.92 to 8.10.01; Members' Interests from 14.10.96 to 8.10.01; Family and Community Affairs from 8.12.98 to 8.10.01.
Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit from 8.12.98 to 11.2.02.
Joint Select: Certain Family Law Issues from 26.5.93 to 28.11.95; Intelligence Services from 28.6.01 to 27.8.01.
Conferences, Delegations and Visits
Deputy Leader, Parliamentary Delegation to USA and Canada, March-April 1995.Parliamentary Delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention, Canberra, February 1998.
Study tour, USA, July 1999; UK and Switzerland, November 1999.
Leader, Australian Political Exchange Council, UK, 2001.
Official visits to Spain and UK, April 2002; China, September 2002.
Parliamentary Party Positions
Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 7.8.92 to 11.3.96. Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition from 7.8.92 to 7.4.93; Shadow Minister for Schools, Vocational Education and Training from 7.4.93 to 26.5.94; Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 26.5.94 to 11.3.96.
Personal
Born 9.11.1955, Sale, Vic.
Married.
Qualifications and Occupation before entering Federal Parliament
BA, LLB (Melb), LLM (Monash).
Research solicitor, Law Institute of Victoria 1980-81.
Co-ordinator, Continuing Legal Education, Law Institute of Victoria 1981-83.
Associate to the Hon. Sir James Gobbo, Supreme Court of Victoria 1983-85.
Barrister-at-law, Victoria 1985-91.
Publications
Rights and Freedoms in Australia (co-author), Sydney: Federation Press, 1990.
Trends in Biomedical Regulation (co-author), Sydney: Butterworths, 1990.
Issues in Biomedical Ethics (co-author), Delhi: Macmillan, 1990.
The Heart of Liberalism: the Albury Papers (co-editor), Mitcham, Vic: The editors, 1994.
Changing Australia: social, cultural and economic trends shaping the nation (co-author), Sydney: Federation Press, 1998.