Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Werriwa, New South Wales at by-election 1994, vice the Hon. J Kerin (resigned). Re-elected 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2004. Resigned 21.1.2005.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Legal and Constitutional Affairs served from 9.2.1994 to 29.1.1996; Banking, Finance and Public Administration served from 9.2.1994 to 29.1.1996; Financial Institutions and Public Administration served from 29.5.1996 to 31.8.1998; Employment, Education and Training served from 19.6.1997 to 31.8.1998; Economics, Finance and Public Administration served from 8.12.1998 to 11.12.2002
• Joint Statutory: Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund served from 10.5.1994 to 29.1.1996; Corporations and Securities served from 18.6.1996 to 19.6.1997

Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to the European Institutions and bilateral visit to Spain, September-October 1995.
• Commonwealth Parliamentary Visit, UK, May 1999.
• Study tour, India, Europe and the Middle East, January 2001.
• Study tour, UK, September 2002.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Vietnam and Indonesia, September 2002.
• Study tour, UK, February-March 2003.
• Official visits to Papua New Guinea, February 2004.
• Official visits to New Zealand, April 2004.

Parliamentary party positions

• Australian Labor Party. Served: 29.01.1994 to 21.01.2005
• Shadow Minister for Competition Policy and Local Government from 20.3.1996 to 27.3.1997.
• Assistant to the Shadow Treasurer from 20.3.1996 to 27.3.1997.
• Shadow Cabinet Minister from 20.3.1996 to 20.10.1998.
• Shadow Minister for Education and Youth Affairs from 27.3.1997 to 20.10.1998.
• Shadow Assistant Treasurer from 25.11.2001 to 23.8.2002.
• Shadow Minister for Urban Development and Housing from 25.11.2001 to 23.8.2002.
• Shadow Minister for Economic Ownership from 25.11.2001 to 23.8.2002.
• Shadow Minister for Economic Ownership, Housing and Urban Development and Community Security from 23.8.2002 to 2.7.2003.
• Shadow Cabinet Minister from 23.8.2002 to 18.1.2005.
• Manager of Opposition Business in the House from 16.6.2003 to 8.12.2003.
• Shadow Treasurer from 2.7.2003 to 8.12.2003.
• Leader of the Opposition from 2.12.2003 to 18.1.2005.
• Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party from 2.12.2003 to 18.1.2005.

Party positions

• Member of the Australian Labor Party from 1979.

Personal

• Born: 28.2.1961, Sydney, Australia
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BEc(Hons) (University of Sydney).
• Barman.
• Research assistant and consultant.

Local Government service

• Councillor, Liverpool City Council from 1987 to 1994.
• Mayor, Liverpool City Council from 1991 to 1994.

Electorate

• Name: Werriwa
• Location: south-western outskirts of Sydney; it includes the suburbs of Austral, Cartwright, Casula, Cecil Hills, Denham Court, Edmondson Park, Glenfield, Green Valley, Hinchinbrook, Hoxton Park, Ingleburn, Kemps Creek, Lurnea, Macquarie Fields, Miller, Minto, Prestons, Raby, St Andrews and Varroville, and parts of Leumeah.
• Area: 148 Sq km
• Electors enrolled: 89,764 (at 9.10.2004)
• Industries: light industries.
• Includes: Werriwa includes the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Macquarie Fields, and parts of Camden, Campbelltown and Liverpool.

Publications

• Reviving Labor's Agenda: a program for local reform, Pluto Press, Leichhardt, NSW: 1990.
• Social capital: the individual, civil society and the state (co-author), Centre for Independent Studies, St Leonards, NSW: 1997.
• Making welfare work: the Latham challenge, University of Queensland, Brisbane: 1997.
• Civilising global capital: new thinking for Australian Labor, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1998.
• What did you learn today?: creating an education revolution, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2001.
• The enabling state: putting people before democracy, Pluto Press, Sydney, NSW: 2001.
• From the suburbs: building a nation from our neighbourhoods, Pluto Press, Annandale, NSW: 2003.
• The Latham diaries, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic.: 2005.
• A conga line of suckholes: Mark Latham's book of quotations, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic.: 2006.
• Not dead yet: what future for Labor?. Black Inc., Collingwood, Vic.: 2013.
• The political bubble: why Australians don't trust politics, Macmillan, Sydney: 2014.
• Latham at large, Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, Victoria: 2015.
• Outsiders, Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne: 2017.
• Take back Australia: saving our country, our culture, our civilisation, Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne: 2018.