Kim Carr
Kim Carr | |
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| Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research | |
| In office 1 July 2013 – 18 September 2013 | |
| Prime Minister | Kevin Rudd |
| Preceded by | Greg Combet |
| Succeeded by | Ian Macfarlane |
| In office 3 December 2007 – 12 December 2011 | |
| Prime Minister | Kevin Rudd Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Ian Macfarlane |
| Succeeded by | Greg Combet |
| Minister for Higher Education | |
| In office 1 July 2013 – 18 September 2013 | |
| Prime Minister | Kevin Rudd |
| Preceded by | Craig Emerson |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Pyne |
| Minister for Human Services | |
| In office 2 March 2012 – 22 March 2013 | |
| Prime Minister | Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Brendan O'Connor |
| Succeeded by | Jan McLucas |
| Minister for Defence Materiel | |
| In office 14 December 2011 – 2 March 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | Jason Clare |
| Succeeded by | Jason Clare |
| Minister for Manufacturing | |
| In office 14 December 2011 – 2 March 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | Julia Gillard |
| Preceded by | New office |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Senator for Victoria | |
| Assumed office 28 April 1993 | |
| Preceded by | John Button |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kim John Carr 2 July 1955 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Teacher |
| Website | www |
Kim John Carr (born 2 July 1955) is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Victoria since 1993, representing the Labor Party. He was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard Governments.[1]
Carr is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, and before entering politics worked as a schoolteacher and political staffer. He was appointed to the Senate in 1993, filling a casual vacancy, and was made a member of the shadow ministry after Labor's defeat at the 1996 election. Carr held a variety of portfolios in the Labor governments between 2007 and 2013. He was considered a leader of the Labor Left faction in Victoria until the Industrial Left formed in 2017 comprising nearly all of Carr's union allies.[2] He is currently the most senior senator and thus father of the senate, assuming the title in 2019.
Early life[]
Carr was born on 2 July 1955 in Tumut, New South Wales.[3] His father was a boilermaker,[4] working on the Snowy Mountains Scheme.[5] The family moved regularly when he was a child, living at a caravan park in Gladstone, Queensland, for a period. He attended Moreland High School in Coburg, Victoria,[6] where "a history teacher fuelled his interest in politics by slipping him copies of socialist literature to read at home".[4]
Carr studied history at the University of Melbourne, completing a Bachelor of Arts with honours and a Master of Arts, and later a Diploma of Education.[7] He joined the Labor Party in 1975. He was a secondary school teacher for nine years before becoming a political staffer for Victorian government ministers Joan Kirner and Andrew McCutcheon.[citation needed]
Parliamentary career[]
Carr was elected to the Senate at the March 1993 election, and was due to take his seat on 1 July. When retiring Senator John Button resigned before the expiry of his term, however, Carr was appointed to the resulting casual vacancy on 28 April.[8] Following his maiden speech, in which he described the opposition as pursuing "inhumane policies", he was accused by Liberal Senate leader Robert Hill of breaking a parliamentary convention around the content of maiden speeches.[9] By 1994, he was regarded as the leader of the Victorian Left faction.[5]
Carr became a Shadow Parliamentary Secretary in March 1996 in addition to being the Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate until his election to the Opposition Shadow Ministry in November 2001. He was Shadow Minister for Science and Research from then until October 2004. He was also Shadow Minister for Industry and Innovation from July 2003 to October 2004. He has been Shadow Minister for Public Administration and Open Government, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Reconciliation and Shadow Minister for the Arts October 2004 to June 2005, when he was appointed Shadow Minister for Housing, Urban Development, Local Government and Territories. He is one of five voting Victorian members of the party's National Executive.
Carr was a leading figure in Labor's left faction in his prime.[10][11][12][13] His influential position within the party has attracted substantial criticism from factional opponents, Carr was then described by colleagues as "ruthless", "calculating" and a "headkicker".[4]
After the Labor's victory in the 2007 federal election, the new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appointed Carr as Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, and he was sworn into office by Governor-General Michael Jeffery on 3 December.[14]
Carr was re-elected in the 2010 election and retained his portfolio of Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research in the Second Gillard Ministry, which was sworn in on 14 September 2010.[15] He was dropped from the cabinet on 12 December 2011, amid speculation that it was due to his links with former prime minister Kevin Rudd.[16] He remained in the outer Ministry however, as Minister for Manufacturing and Minister for Defence Materiel.[17]
In the Ministerial reshuffle of 2 March 2012, Carr was appointed as Minister for Human Services.[18] Carr resigned his ministerial portfolio on 22 March 2013 after he supported an unsuccessful attempt to reinstall Kevin Rudd as Labor Leader.
Following a subsequent successful leadership spill in which Gillard was defeated, Rudd appointed Carr as the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, and Minister for Higher Education and member of Cabinet in the Second Rudd Ministry.[1]
See also[]
- Book Industry Strategy Group
- First Rudd Ministry
- First Gillard Ministry
- Second Gillard Ministry
- Second Rudd Ministry
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Second Rudd Ministry" (PDF). Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Commonwealth of Australia. 1 July 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Hutchinson, Samantha (20 November 2019). "Premier's faction loses to union-stacked rebel alliance in committee vote". The Age. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ "Senator the Hon Kim Carr". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Knott, Matthew (28 July 2016). "'It was everyone against Kim': Kim Carr, Labor's ultimate survivor". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Taylor, Mike (27 August 1994). "A factional heavy-weight faces his first bout". The Canberra Times.
- ^ Barber, Dylan (20 December 2013). "Labor's frontbench, too, is a mostly private-school affair". Crikey. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- ^ Australian Government. "Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research". Archived from the original on 21 July 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
- ^ Parliamentary Biography: Kim Carr; Retrieved 16 August 2013
- ^ "Maiden speech 'broke conventions'". The Canberra Times. 6 May 1993.
- ^ "ALP meeting leaves some unhappy" (transcript). PM (ABC Radio). Australia. 7 October 2002.
- ^ Factional wars at Victoria's ALP State Conference, PM, ABC, 23 May 2005
- ^ Ernest Healy (1993), 'Ethnic ALP Branches – The Balkanisation of Labor,' in People and Place, Vol.1, No.4, Page 40
- ^ Ernest Healy (1995), 'Ethnic ALP Branches – The Balkanisation of Labor Revisited,' People and Place, Vol.3, No.3, p.48-54
- ^ "Rudd hands out portfolios". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 29 November 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 21 September 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Reported on ABC Radio National news bulletins, 12 December 2011.
- ^ Gillard, Julia (12 December 2001). "Changes to the Ministry" (Press release). Prime Minister of Australia. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
- ^ Gillard, Julia (2 March 2012). "Changes to the Ministry" (Press release). Prime Minister of Australia. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
External links[]
Media related to Kim Carr at Wikimedia Commons
- 1955 births
- Living people
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- Members of the Australian Senate
- Members of the Australian Senate for Victoria
- Members of the Cabinet of Australia
- Government ministers of Australia
- University of Melbourne alumni
- Labor Left politicians
- 21st-century Australian politicians
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