Biography for BYRNE, the Hon. Anthony MichaelMember for Holt (Vic)
Australian Labor Party
Parliamentary Service
Elected to the House of Representatives for Holt, Victoria at by-election 6.11.1999 vice the Hon. GJ Evans (resigned). Re-elected 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010.
Ministerial Appointments
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister from 3.12.07 to 14.9.10.
Parliamentary Secretary for Trade from 25.2.09 to 14.9.10.
Committee Service
House of Representatives Standing: Environment and Heritage from 1.6.00 to 8.10.01; Industry and Resources from 20.3.02 to 21.10.02; Members Interests from 2.12.04 to 17.10.07; Science and Innovation from 2.12.04 to 10.5.05; Petitions from 25.10.10.
Joint Statutory: Corporations and Financial Services from 20.3.02 to 31.8.04; Australian Crime Commission from 2.12.04 to 12.9.05; ASIO, ASIS and DSD from 7.3.05 to 2.12.05; Intelligence and Security from 2.12.05 to 17.10.07 and from 18.11.10 (Chair).
Joint Standing: Treaties from 16.2.00 to 11.2.02; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 24.9.02 to 31.8.04, from 25.10.10 to 14.3.12 and from 19.9.12.
Conferences, Delegations and Visits
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum, Hawaii, January 2002.
Official visits to Singapore, September 2008; USA, January 2009; Singapore and Papua New Guinea, May 2009; Republic of Korea, August 2009; Panama, April 2011.
Parliamentary Party Positions
Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 10.12.06 to 3.12.07.
Party Positions
President, ALP Endeavour Hills Branch.
Member, ALP Public Office Selection Committee.
Member, ALP Caucus Committee on Security and Defence.
Personal
Born 1.12.1962, Adelaide, SA.
Qualifications and Occupation before entering Federal Parliament
Chief Executive Officer, Anxiety Disorders Foundation of Australia 1994-96.
Adviser to Senator JMA Collins 1996-99.
Electorate
Description: outer metropolitan.
Location: south-eastern Melbourne; it includes the suburbs of Cranbourne, Cranbourne North, Cranbourne West, Doveton, Endeavour Hills, Eumemmerring, Hallam, Hampton Park, Lynbrook, Lysterfield South, Narre Warren South and parts of Berwick, Clyde, Clyde North, Cranbourne East, Lyndhurst, Narre Warren and Narre Warren North.
Area: 145 sq km (approx.).
Electors enrolled: 108 893 (at 21.8.10).
Industries: retail, service and light industries.
State electorates: Holt includes parts of the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorates of Cranbourne, Dandenong, Lyndhurst, Narre Warren North and Narre Warren South.