The Hon. Kevin ANDREWS, MP

Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service

AGE: 49
BORN: Sale, Victoria
LIVES: Melbourne
CAREER: Kevin Andrews is the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service in the Australian Government.

Educated at Melbourne University in Arts and Law, and with a master of laws from Monash University, he has a background in legal education, ethics and vocational training. He was elected to the House of Representatives, as the Member for Menzies in Victoria, in 1991.

Prior to entering Parliament, he worked as a research solicitor and co-ordinator of continuing legal education at the Law Institute of Victoria, served as a Judge’s Associate to Sir James Gobbo on the Victorian Supreme Court, and practised as a barrister from 1985-1991, specialising in health law and bioethics.

He also served on the Advisory Board of Caritas Christi Hospice; and the Ethics Committees of the Lincoln School of Health Sciences, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, and the Mercy Hospital for Women.

Following his election in 1991, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Minister for Schools, Vocational Education and Training. He has also chaired the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, producing a series of reports including To have and to Hold on strategies to strengthen marriage and relationships (1998), and Human Cloning (2001). He has also served as Minister for Ageing.

Kevin has authored, and co-authored, a series of books and articles, including Elderly and the Law and Changing Australia.

Kevin and his wife Margaret live in Melbourne with their three sons and two daughters.