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Donate Charles Christian Porter (born 11 July 1970) is an Australian Liberal Party politician and Contribute The Honourable lawyer serving as Attorney-General of Australia since 2017, and has served as Member of Christian Porter Help Parliament (MP) for Pearce since 2013. He was appointed Minister for Industrial Relations MP Learn to edit and Leader of the House in 2019. Community portal Recent changes From Perth, Porter attended Hale School, the University of Western Australia and later the Upload file London School of Economics, and practised law at Clayton Utz and taught law at the University of Western Australia before his election to parliament. He is the son of the 1956 Tools Olympic silver medallist, Charles "Chilla" Porter, and the grandson of Queensland Liberal What links here politician, Charles Porter, who was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from Related changes [4][5] Special pages 1966 to 1980. Permanent link Before his election to the federal House of Representatives, Porter had served in the Page information Parliament of Western Australia. He first entered the Legislative Assembly after winning the Cite this page seat of Murdoch in a 2008 by-election following the death of the sitting member, Trevor Wikidata item Sprigg, and he was subsequently elected to the new seat of Bateman at the 2008 general Print/export election. After the Liberals formed government, Porter was appointed Attorney-General in Download as PDF Create PDF in your applications with the Pdfcrowd HTML to PDF API PDFCROWD Printable version the Barnett Ministry. In December 2010, he was also appointed Treasurer, and held both portfolios until June 2012, when he resigned from the ministry to contest the 2013 federal In other projects election. Wikimedia Commons Prior to assuming his current position, Porter was Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Languages Minister in the Abbott Government from December 2014 to September 2015,[6][7] and then Minister for Social Services in the Turnbull Government from September 2015 to December اﻟﻌﺮﺑﯿﺔ .2017 ﻣﺼﺮى Polski 中 Contents [hide] Edit links 1 Background and early career 2 State politics 3 Federal politics 3.1 Minister for Social Services (2015–2017) 3.2 Attorney-General (2017–present) Porter in 2015 4 Personal life 5 References Attorney-General of Australia 6 External links Incumbent Assumed office 20 December 2017 Background and early career Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Scott Morrison Porter's father was Charles "Chilla" Porter, who during the 1970s and 1980s was director of Preceded by George Brandis Western Australia's Liberal Party.[5] His grandfather, Charles Robert Porter, was a Leader of the House Queensland Liberal state MP between 1966 and 1980 and served in the ministry of Joh Incumbent Bjelke-Petersen.[5] Assumed office Porter was educated at Hale School, then at the University of Western Australia where he 26 May 2019 graduated Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in politics, Prime Minister Scott Morrison before completing a Bachelor of Laws degree. Porter later studied at the London School of Deputy Darren Chester Economics for a Master of Science in political theory, from which he graduated at the top of Preceded by Christopher Pyne [8] his class with distinction. Minister for Industrial Relations Incumbent Create PDF in your applications with the Pdfcrowd HTML to PDF API PDFCROWD Prior to entering Parliament, Porter worked predominantly as a lawyer, starting as a Assumed office commercial litigator at Clayton Utz before moving to public practice. He spent a year as an 26 May 2019 advisor to the Federal Minister for Justice and then began working for the Office of the Prime Minister Scott Morrison Director of Public Prosecutions as a senior state prosecutor. Before his election in 2008, Preceded by Kelly O'Dwyer Porter was working as a lecturer at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia Treasurer of Western Australia as well as retaining, part-time, his position as senior prosecutor at the DPP.[9] In office 14 December 2010 – 12 June 2012 State politics Premier Colin Barnett Preceded by Colin Barnett At the 2008 election, Porter contested and won the newly created seat of Bateman Succeeded by Colin Barnett following the abolition of the seat of Murdoch in the 2007 redistribution. He was appointed Attorney-General of Western Australia [10] Attorney-General and Minister for Corrective Services after the election, having held the In office equivalent shadow portfolios prior to the election.[11] 23 September 2008 – 12 June 2012 On 14 December 2010, Porter was sworn in as Treasurer of Western Australia. He retained Premier Colin Barnett the portfolio of Attorney General, while the Corrective Services portfolio was transferred to Preceded by Jim McGinty Terry Redman. Succeeded by Michael Mischin Minister for Social Services On 12 June 2012, he announced he was stepping down from his ministerial portfolios to In office contest the seat of Pearce at the 2013 Australian federal election.[12] 21 September 2015 – 20 December 2017 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Federal politics Preceded by Scott Morrison See also: Abbott Government and Turnbull Government Succeeded by Dan Tehan At the 2013 election, Porter was elected to federal parliament with an 8% margin. He had a Member of the Australian Parliament for Pearce rapid rise through the ranks, becoming the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister in Incumbent 2014–15, and was a part of the speaker's panel from 2013 to 2015.[13] Assumed office 7 September 2013 Minister for Social Services (2015–2017) Preceded by Judi Moylan On 20 September 2015, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that Porter would Member of the [14] Western Australian Legislative Assembly replace Scott Morrison as Social Services Minister as part of a Cabinet overhaul. for Bateman In office Create PDF in your applications with the Pdfcrowd HTML to PDF API PDFCROWD In 2016, Centrelink, operating under Porter's senior oversight as Social Services Minister, 6 September 2008 – 9 March 2013 became involved in a debt recovery controversy. Despite heightened media interest and Preceded by District created complaints, after meeting with the Department of Human Services,[15] Porter stated that the Succeeded by Matt Taylor program was working "incredibly well".[16] The program was later subject to a Senate Personal details committee inquiry,[17] and the program was estimated to be responsible for over 2000 Born Charles Christian Porter deaths.[18] 11 July 1970 (age 50)[1] Perth, Western Australia, One of Porter's roles was to manage the Cashless Welfare Card, and increased its use in Australia [19] various communities. He spoke of his pride in the outcomes of the policy. The card was Nationality Australian [20] linked to increased hardship for many of its users, and there is no evidence that it Political party Liberal Party produces a positive outcome.[21][22][23] Spouse(s) Lucy Gunn (divorced) [2] During his time in this ministry, Porter was instrumental in the formation of the coalition Jennifer Porter (separated) policy of performing drug tests on welfare recipients, which was considered bad policy by Children 2 experts, since there was no evidence anywhere in the world of a similar project working,[24] Father Chilla Porter and the ABC fact checkers called the policy "wishful thinking" that it would help people get Relatives Charles Robert Porter off welfare.[25] This section of the legislation was eventually dropped to allow the passage of (grandfather) the remaining elements of the bill, which contained large budget cuts to the welfare Alma mater Hale School University of Western system.[26][27] Australia (BEc, BA (Hons), Porter was criticised for skipping the final sittings of the Royal Commission into Institutional LLB)[3] Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in order to attend the cricket with John Howard.[28] London School of Economics (MSc)[3] Attorney-General (2017–present) Profession Politician, lawyer Website christianporter.com.au In a December 2017 reshuffle of the Turnbull ministry, Porter became Attorney-General in place of George Brandis. He relinquished the social services portfolio to Dan Tehan. At the reshuffle, some of the national security powers and responsibilities previously held by the Attorney-General were transferred to the new position of Minister for Home Affairs, which was given to Peter Dutton.[29] This was seen as a positive by some, who said that the role of attorney general had become too focused on security and that the role should be realigned to its old role of defending the rule of law. It was also suggested that many areas of the law were in crisis because of the security focus, such as family law and incarceration
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