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Biography - The Hon Bob McMullan MP

Parliamentary Service

Chosen by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia on 16.2.1988, pursuant to Senate (Representation of Territories) Act 1973, to represent the Australian Capital Territory in the Senate, vice the Hon. SM Ryan (resigned). Elected 1990 and 1993 (Territory Senators serve for the same term as the House of Representatives). Resigned 6.2.1996.

Elected to the House of Representatives for Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 1996.

Re-elected following 1997 electoral redistribution for Fraser, Australian Capital Territory, 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2007.

Ministerial Appointments

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer from 4.4.90 to 24.3.93.

Minister for the Arts and Administrative Services from 24.3.93 to 30.1.94.

Minister for Administrative Services from 30.1.94 to 25.3.94.

Minister for Trade from 30.1.94 to 11.3.96.

Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance from 3.12.07.

Committee Service

Senate Standing: Regulations and Ordinances from 24.2.88 to 30.5.89; Procedure from 13.8.91 to 18.5.93.

Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 24.2.88 to 8.5.90; Transport, Communications and Infrastructure from 24.2.88 to 8.5.90.

Senate Select: Administration of Aboriginal Affairs from 2.6.88 (Chair from 3.6.88) to 28.2.89; Health Legislation and Health Insurance from 16.6.89 to 8.5.90.

Senate Estimates: A from 18.3.88 to 8.5.90.

House of Representatives Standing: Financial Institutions and Public Administration from 29.5.96 to 17.11.97. Privileges from 2.12.04

Joint Statutory: Public Accounts from 3.5.89 to 19.2.90; Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund from 6.2.01 to 11.2.02.

Joint: Australian Capital Territory from 31.5.89 to 19.2.90.

Joint Select: Corporations Legislation from 20.10.88 to 13.4.89.

Conferences, Delegations and Visits

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Singapore, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea, July-August 1988.

Official visits to India and USA, April-May 1990; New Zealand, June 1990; USA, April-May 1991 and April-May 1992; USA, UK, Belgium, Germany and Indonesia, September 1993; New Zealand, February 1994; Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia, March 1994; Morocco, Turkey, Greece and Saudi Arabia, April 1994; Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Mexico, May 1994; Singapore, June 1994; Indonesia, June 1994; Republic of Korea, Japan and Singapore, July 1994; Thailand, August 1994; China, September 1994; Indonesia, October 1994; Indonesia, November 1994; India, Jordan and Israel, February 1995; South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mauritius, March-April 1995; New Zealand, April 1995; Turkey, Middle East and Pakistan, April-May 1995; France, Belgium, Switzerland, UK, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Philippines, May-June 1995; Mexico, USA and Canada, July 1995; Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, August-September 1995; China and Hong Kong, September 1995; Korea and Japan, October 1995; Japan, Taiwan, Canada and USA, November 1995; Papua New Guinea, December 1995.

Parliamentary Party Positions

Manager of Government Business in the Senate from 4.6.91 to 24.3.93.

Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 19.3.96 to 22.10.04, and from 10.12.06.

Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations from 20.3.96 to 22.4.97;

Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations and the Arts from 22.4.97 to 7.10.97;

Assistant to the Leader of the Opposition on Public Service Matters from 20.3.96 to 27.3.97.

Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations, Finance and the Arts from 7.10.97 to 20.10.98;

Shadow Minister for Industry and Technology from 20.10.98 to 5.9.00;

Shadow Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs; Shadow Minister for Reconciliation and Shadow Minister for the Arts from 5.9.00 to 25.11.01;

Manager of Opposition Business in the House from 20.10.98 to 25.11.01.

Shadow Minister for Treasury, Finance and Small Business from 25.11.01 to 02.07.03.

Shadow Minister for Cabinet and Finance and Shadow Minister for Reconciliation and Indiginous Affairs from 02.07.03 to 08.12.03.

Shadow Minister for Finance, and Shadow Minister for Small Business from 08.12.03 to 22.10.04

Shadow Minister for Federal-State Relations from 10.12.06; and Shadow Minister for International Development Assistance from 10.12.06. Deputy Manager of Opposition Business from 9.3.07

Party Positions

ALP State Secretary (WA) 1975-81.

ALP National Secretary 1981-88.

Personal

Born 10.12.1947, Perth, WA.

Married.

Qualifications and Occupation before entering Federal Parliament

BA, BEc (UWA), GradDipPubLaw (ANU).

Party official and union official.

December 2007

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