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Electorates
- MLA Armadale from 2 October 2010. Elected to the Thirty-Eighth Parliament for Armadale at the by-election on 2 October 2010, held to fill the vacancy consequent upon the resignation of Ms Alannah Joan Geraldine MacTiernan. Re-elected 2013, 2017 and 2021.
Office
- Opposition Parliamentary Secretary to the Attorney General from 2 May 2012–19 April 2013
- Opposition Parliamentary Secretary for Disability Services, Child Protection, Mental Health, Education, Multicultural Interests from 19 April 2013–3 December 2013
- Opposition Parliamentary Secretary for Education and Multicultural Interests from 19 April 2013–19 December 2013
- Opposition Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, Children's Interests, Education, Multicultural Interests from 19 December 2013
- Minister for Finance; Lands; Sports and Recreation; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests from 19 March 2021 to 21 December 2021
- Minister for Finance; Aboriginal Affairs; Racing and Gaming; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests from 21 December 2021 to 14 December 2022
- Minister for Education; Aboriginal Affairs; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests from 14 December 2022 to 19 March 2025
- Attorney General; Minister for Commerce; Tertiary and International Education; Multicultural Interests from 19 March 2025
Committees
- Member, Community Development and Justice Standing Committee from 9 May 2013 to 30 January 2017 (Deputy Chairman from 12 November 2014 to 30 January 2017)
- Member, Public Accounts Committee from 23 May 2017 to 29 January 2021 (Chair from 24 May 2017 to 29 January 2021)
- Member, Joint Standing Committee on Audit from 13 June 2017 to 29 January 2021 (Deputy Chair from 16 August 2017 to 29 January 2021)
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Personal Information |
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Teacher, lawyer and university lecturer |
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Secondary school teacher, 1984, 1987 and 1988
Barrister and solicitor, 1993–2003
Articled clerk, Dwyer & Durack, 1993
Principal and partner, Chapmans barrister and solicitor, 1998–2000
Legal academic, Murdoch University, 1997–2006
Professor, University of Western Australia, 2007–2010 |
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AFL player agent, 1996–2001
Member, Australian Workers' Union
Member, Board Armadale Redevelopment Authority, 2002–2010 and Church Community Reference Group to the Animal Rights Advocates
Member, Council, Armadale Primary School, 2008–2010
Board member, South Fremantle Football Club, 1996
Founding president, Champion Lakes Boat Club
Member, Armadale Soccer Club and Kelmscott Tennis Club
Member, Roleystone Theatre
Captain, Colts Premiership team, Kelmscott Football Club, South Suburban League, 1979
Four times competitor in International Human Rights Defence Competition, Caen, France
Moderator, hypotheticals
Author:
- A Matter of Conscience. Co-authored with Ronald Wilson. Published by UWA Press, Crawley, WA, 2007. Winner 2007 Premiers’ non-fiction book award and Premier’s Award
- Drugs, Sport and the Law. Co-authored with Saul Fridman. Published by Scribbler Publishing, Mudgeeraba, Queensland, 2001
- After the Removal. Published by Aboriginal Legal Service of WA, 1996. Submission to the National Inquiry into Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families
- Brothers : justice, corruption and the Mickelbergs. Published by Fremantle Press, Fremantle, WA, 2011
- A stolen life : the Bruce Trevorrow case. Published by Fremantle Press, Fremantle, WA, 2019
- Alkira. Published by Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, Victoria), 2021
- Sports law. Co-authored with David Thorpe, Paul Jonson, Jack Anderson. Fourth edition. Published by Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Victoria, 2022
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 34-35.
Western Australian Government Gazette, Perth, Wednesday, 19 March 2025. No. 28, Special. |
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