Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Kooyong, Victoria at by-election 1994, vice the Hon. A Peacock (resigned). Re-elected 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2007. Retired prior to general elections 2010.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Employment, Education and Training served from 29.3.1995 to 29.1.1996; Parliamentary Library served from 20.3.2002 to 31.8.2004; Parliamentary Library served from 1.12.2004 to 17.10.2007; Science and Innovation served as Chair from 1.12.2004 to 17.10.2007; Privileges and Members' Interests served from 12.2.2008 to 19.7.2010; Legal and Constitutional Affairs served from 11.3.2008 to 10.2.2010
• Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade served from 18.6.1996 to 31.8.1998; Migration served from 29.3.2001 to 8.10.2001; Electoral Matters served as Chair from 20.3.2002 to 31.8.2004; Parliamentary Library served from 28.2.2006 to 17.10.2007; Migration served from 11.3.2008 to 10.2.2010
• Joint Statutory: Public Accounts served from 29.5.1996 to 31.8.1998; Public Accounts and Audit served from 1.1.1998 to 31.8.2004; Public Accounts and Audit served from 11.3.2008 to 19.7.2010

Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Austria, April 2008.

Parliamentary party positions

• Liberal Party of Australia. Served: 19.11.1994 to 19.07.2010

Party positions

• Director of the Liberal Party Policy Unit from 1985 to 1989.
• Director of the Liberal Party (Vic.) from 1989 to 1994.

Personal

• Born: 30.11.1947, Corfu, Greece
• Gender: Male

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BA(Hons) (University of Melbourne).
• Senior Tutor in Politics at La Trobe University from 1970 to 1973.
• Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. J Fraser, CH from 1975 to 1979.
• Secretary of the Ethnic Television Review Panel from 1979 to 1980.
• Director of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs from 1980 to 1985.
• Senior Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. A Peacock, 1985.
• Party official from 1985 to 1994.
• Political Coordinator to the Leader of the Opposition, Dr J Hewson from 1993 to 1994.

Electorate

• Name: Kooyong
• Location: eastern Melbourne; it includes the inner eastern suburbs of Balwyn, Balwyn North, Canterbury, Hawthorn, Hawthorn East, Kew, Kew East and parts of Camberwell, Glen Iris and Surrey Hills.
• Area: 49 Sq km
• Electors enrolled: 88,324 (at 24.11.2007)
• Industries: retail and service industries.
• Includes: Kooyong includes the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate of Kew, and parts of Box Hill, Burwood and Hawthorn.

Honours

• Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia, 10.6.2013.

Publications

• Migrants, unionism and society, University of Melbourne, Melbourne: 1969.
• Menzies, social justice and liberalism, Sir Robert Menzies Lecture Trust, Melbourne: 2000.