Andrew Hastie

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The Honourable
Andrew Hastie
MP
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Official portrait, 2021
Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives [a]
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 February 2026
Servingwith Jane Hume
Battles/wars

Andrew William Hastie (born 30 September 1982) is an Australian politician and former military officer who has served as the deputy leader of the Opposition and the deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives since 2026. He has been the member of parliament (MP) for the Western Australian division of Canning since 2015. Hastie was a troop commander in the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) prior to entering politics.

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Hastie served as the Assistant Minister for Defence from 2020 to 2022, during the Morrison government. Following the 2022 election, he served as Shadow Minister for Defence, as well as Shadow Minister for Defence Industry & Defence Personnel in the Dutton shadow ministry. He was Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security from 2017 to 2020.

Hastie was appointed Shadow Minister for Home Affairs in May 2025. He left the role in October 2025 after resigning from the party's frontbench over internal policy disputes. He returned to the frontbench in February 2026, serving as the Shadow Minister for Industry and Sovereign Capability. A prominent member of the National Right, his views have been described as right-wing populist and far-right, with strong stances against multiculturalism, immigration, abortion, LGBTQ rights, and net-zero emissions in Australia.

Early life and education

Hastie's mother, Sue, was a primary school teacher for special needs children. His maternal grandmother Rose was a nurse and cared for Hastie's maternal grandfather Reginald, a war veteran. [2] His father Peter was a church pastor in Wangaratta, Victoria, and later in the inner Sydney suburb of Ashfield, where he helped launch Australia's first Mandarin-speaking Presbyterian church. [3]

When the family moved to the inner west of Sydney, Hastie began his primary education at Ashbury Public School. [4] From year 5 he attended The Scots College [5] in Sydney, completing his Higher School Certificate in 2000. Intending to become a journalist, Hastie began a Bachelor of Arts in History, Politics and Philosophy at the Kensington Campus of University of New South Wales in 2001, and also joined the University of New South Wales Regiment as a part-time reservist. [4]

Hastie completed his second year at UNSW's Kensington Campus in 2002 before transferring to the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra in 2003. [4] [6] He finished his bachelor's degree in 2004, then his honours year in 2005, where his final thesis examined Charles Bean's official history of Australia in World War I. [7] Hastie went on to officer training at Royal Military College, Duntroon in 2006, [8] where he met his political mentor John Anderson. [9] In 2007, Hastie completed the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs U.S. Foreign Policy Summer Program in Washington, D.C. [4] Hastie has also completed a Graduate Certificate in Business Economics through Harvard Extension School. [8] [10]

Military career

Hastie serving with the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force Two in 2009 Hastie.jpg
Hastie serving with the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force Two in 2009

Hastie began his military career as an officer cadet in 2001. His officer training was completed at Duntroon in 2006, and he was commissioned as a lieutenant from December. [11] He was posted in 2007 with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (Australia) of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps, based in Palmerston, Northern Territory. Hastie commanded a cavalry troop in 2008, before it was deployed in Afghanistan the following year. [12] Hastie was deployed to Afghanistan with Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force Two where he commanded a troop of Australian Light Armoured Vehicles. [13] [14] The troop's armoured operations began at the start of the fighting season in May 2009, concluding in February 2010. [15]

Special Air Service Regiment

In 2010 Hastie moved to Perth to prepare for the SAS Selection course. He began the course in July 2010 and was one of 30 who completed it out of 130 soldiers. The selection course was followed by a 18-month Reinforcement Cycle, during which a further 15 soldiers dropped out. [6] In May 2012, he was deployed to Port Moresby to support the Papua New Guinea Defence Force during a general election. [4] [7]

From February to July 2013, Hastie served in Afghanistan as a Troop Captain with Special Operations Task Group Rotation XIX, working primarily with Afghan partner forces to target the Taliban. [16] During a battle in Zabul, some members of Hastie's SASR troop severed the hands of deceased Taliban soldiers [17] He observed a severed hand and asked what was happening. Hastie afterwards ordered his unit to cease the practice, and the incident was reported to his commanding officer. [18] During a later inquiry, a corporal gave evidence that they had severed the hands of their own accord as they didn't have time to retrieve biometric material and they needed to get back to their helicopters to leave. The inquiry found that Australian troops in Afghanistan had not been explicitly instructed whether the collection of body parts for biometric testing was acceptable. [18]

Hastie was deployed in 2014 and 2015 to the Middle East for an intelligence role, serving as an Operations Officer for Operation Gallant Phoenix. [4] [19] [20] He resigned from the Australian Defence Force in August 2015 after announcing his candidacy for the 2015 Canning by-election. [21]

Political career

Turnbull government (2015–2018)

Hastie, Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security with Deputy Chair Anthony Byrne in February 2020 Andrew Hastie MP, Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security with Deputy Chair Anthony Byrne MP in February 2020 photo taken by D Birch.jpg
Hastie, Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security with Deputy Chair Anthony Byrne in February 2020

The seat of Canning became vacant by the death in office of the Liberal member, Don Randall, triggering the 2015 Canning by-election. Having won the Liberal Party pre-selection, [22] Hastie campaigned with support from Mathias Cormann and Julie Bishop. During the campaign, he met with media criticism about his family's religious beliefs. [23]

Hastie won 55.26% of votes under the two-party-preferred system, defeating Labor candidate Matt Keogh. He joined the government of Malcolm Turnbull who had himself become Prime Minister of Australia a week before the by-election. Hastie gave his first speech on 13 October 2015. [24] Hastie stood again for the division of Canning for the 2016 Australian federal election, winning 56.79% of the votes (two-party-preferred vote count) against Labor opposition candidate Barry Winmar. This moved the seat from "marginal" to "fairly safe" according to the Australian Electoral Commission. [25] In September 2016, Hastie was appointed to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security; he then chaired this joint committee from 2017 to 2020. [8]

Morrison government (2018–2022)

During the August 2018 Liberal Party leadership spills, Hastie publicly supported a change in the party's leadership. [26] Scott Morrison was subsequently elected leader of the Liberal Party, thus becoming Prime Minister of Australia as leader of the majority party in the House of Representatives.

In 2018, Hastie stated his support for striking Alcoa Australia workers, stating that this was because "energy production in Australia is too expensive and it is hurting industry, workers, seniors and families." [27]

At the May 2019 Australian federal election, Hastie ran for re‑election and secured 61.55% of the two‑party‑preferred vote against the Australian Labor Party's Mellisa Teede. According to OpenAustralia, Hastie participated in 45 parliamentary debates in 2019—above the parliamentary average—with most contributions relating to national security matters. [28]

Hastie opposed dredging and the development of the Mandurah Estuary for a proposed 300‑berth marina, stating "We're up against a business taking direction from overseas without any long term interests in the safety, the security and the health of our local environment. The central question is whether or not local people have a say over the natural assets we are called to steward for future generations." [29] He supported a $22 million foreshore development project, which received $7 million in federal funding, to deliver a new civic square, convention centre, large‑scale adventure play area and an ecotourism hub. [30]

On 22 December 2020, Hastie became a part of Australia's executive government when he was appointed to the outer ministry as Assistant Minister for Defence. [8] [31]

Opposition (2022–present)

The Liberal Party were defeated by the Labor Party at the 2022 federal election; the Liberal-National Coalition moving to the opposition benches. Hastie managed to retain his seat of Canning, winning 43.8% of first-preference votes and 53.59% of the two-party-preferred vote against Labor's Amanda Hunt. Hastie, however, saw a 7.79% swing against him at the election, making Canning marginal. [32] [33] Hastie served under Opposition Leader Peter Dutton as Shadow Defence Minister and Shadow Minister for Defence Industry & Defence Personnel. [8]

Hastie said that prior to the 2025 Australian federal election, polling in his seat showed that Liberal party leader Peter Dutton "was leading Anthony Albanese in personal favourability, but there was a catch: only one in four voters knew who Peter Dutton was, and that he was vulnerable to Labor defining him". He further said that during the campaign, Labor used social media to make "savage personal attacks" against Dutton, despite a previous promise to be more respectful in politics. Writing for WAtoday, Hamish Hastie [d] wrote that "In the face of Dutton's issues and an increasingly bad campaign, Hastie jettisoned mentions of nuclear power, the Liberal leader – and the Liberal Party itself – from much of his campaigning". He also made the decision to remove much of the Liberal branding from his shirts and billboards. Hastie was not particularly visible during much of the national campaign, needing to focus instead on local electioneering in his seat of Canning. After the campaign, he said "I focused on what mattered in a bad national campaign: my local community". [35]

Hastie managed to avoid the worst of the large national swing against the Liberals, despite redistribution having reduced his notional lead in Canning. He won 42.52% of first-preference votes and 56.55% of two-party preferred votes, a net notional 5.35% swing against Labor's Jarrad Goold. [36] [37] The election saw heavy losses for the Liberals in metropolitan Australia; Hastie was one of the few Liberals in a metropolitan seat to record a swing in his favour, and the only Liberal from a Perth-based seat. On 9 May, Hastie gave an interview talking about the 2025 election, where he criticised the Liberal campaign and the party's reliance on ex-staffers, as well raising issues with Peter Dutton. Hastie attributed his success in Canning, in part, to avoiding discussing topics related to Dutton and nuclear energy. [35]

On 28 May 2025, Hastie was appointed by Sussan Ley to be Shadow Minister for Home Affairs in Ley's first shadow ministry. [8] However, he resigned from the opposition frontbench on 3 October 2025, after less than five months into the role. His resignation followed a letter from Ley which, he said, "made it clear that [he] would not be involved in leading or developing our policy or strategy on immigration". Hastie stated that he "could not see how I could continue as the Shadow Home Affairs Minister and remain silent on immigration policy". [38]

On 17 February 2026, after conservative MP Angus Taylor was elected party leader in the leadership spill which deposed Ley, Hastie was reappointed to the shadow ministry, this time under Taylor, becoming Shadow Minister for Industry and Sovereign Capability. Hastie also took the position of Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives, a position which had become available because newly-elected Deputy Liberal Leader Jane Hume sits in the Senate (rather than the House, as had her predecessor as deputy). [39] [40] This position and promotion was seen as a prize for Hastie as a right-faction supporter of Taylor, within the previously centre-right Liberal Party, and also marks the further movement of the party under Taylor to the right. [41]

Views

Hastie is a member of the National Right faction of the Liberal Party. [42] [43] [44] [45] His views have been described as right-wing populist and far-right, [46] [47] [48] [49] with strong stances against multiculturalism, [47] [50] immigration, [47] [51] late-term abortions, [52] [53] and the transition to net zero emissions in Australia. [54] [42] Hastie is a member of the Atlantic Council, an international foreign policy think tank connected to conservative politicians Mike Gallagher from the United States and Tom Tugendhat from the United Kingdom. [55] [56] He has cited his Christian faith as informing his views on various policies, such as individual freedoms. [57]

China

Hastie believes that "freely formed associations are the basis of Australian society and are the fullest expression of self-government". [58] Hastie has expressed concern about the freedom of Australian universities and media institutions. [59] In May 2018, under parliamentary privilege, Hastie alleged that political donor Chau Chak Wing was an unindicted co-conspirator in an FBI bribery case involving former president of the UN general assembly, John Ashe; this revelation was viewed as likely to further inflame the already strained relations between Australia and China, [60] but Hastie saw it as "his duty." [61] An ABC analyst wrote that Hastie acted "because he has become sincerely worried about the influence of China on Australian institutions and politics." [20]

Hastie was a strong supporter of the Turnbull government's decision to prevent Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei from providing 5G services in Australia. [62]

Hastie's concerns regarding Australia maintaining its sovereignty in the face of China's rising power in the region led him to form the Parliamentary Friends of Democracy with Labor senator Kimberley Kitching. [63] In August 2019, he wrote an opinion article, "We Must See China with Clear Eyes" for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers, where he stated that "Communist China", rather than Islamic terrorism, would be the real security concern of the 21st century. The piece was criticised by the Chinese Embassy in Australia, who denounced the remarks as reflecting a "Cold War mentality", [3] [64] while Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan accused Hastie of "threatening WA jobs with extreme and inflammatory language." [65] Conversely, Hastie received praise from fellow Liberal MPs Dave Sharma and Peter Dutton, and Professor Clive Hamilton. [63] [66] [67] The Chinese embassy disinvited him from a planned study trip with several colleagues to China with the China Matters think tank, stating: "We strongly deplore the Australian federal MP Andrew Hastie's rhetoric on 'China threat' which lays bare his Cold-War mentality and ideological bias. We urge certain Australian politicians to take off their 'colored lens' and view China's development path in an objective and rational way. They should make efforts to promote mutual trust between China and Australia, instead of doing the opposite." [68]

In November 2019, Wang Liqiang, who described himself as a former Chinese intelligence operative and had sought asylum in Australia, received public support from Andrew Hastie, then Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. Hastie referred to Wang as a "friend of democracy" and stated that "anyone who is willing to assist us in defending our sovereignty deserves our protection". He called on the Australian Government to provide Wang with protection, arguing that Wang’s purported revelations of Chinese interference were in Australia’s national interest. [69] [70] Subsequent investigations raised significant doubts about several of Wang’s claims. His asylum application was ultimately refused after the Administrative Appeals Tribunal found that he had committed fraud against an Australian citizen. [71]

In May 2020, Hastie was one of 20 Australian politicians to sign a letter condemning the "comprehensive assault on [Hong Kong's] autonomy, rule of law and fundamental freedoms", in response to a "new legal framework and enforcement mechanism". [72] [73] [74] He was one of a number of backbenchers who pushed for added restrictions on foreign investment in Australian companies. [75] Hastie argued that such purchases are part of wider political warfare conducted by the Chinese Communist Party. [59] [76]

On 4 June 2020, the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Hastie joined a group of nineteen other politicians from eight countries and the European Parliament to form the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

Environment and climate change

Arguing in favour of "the sovereignty of local communities to make decisions about how they conserve and develop their environment", Hastie opposed the dredging of the Point Grey Marina but supported the investment of $3 million by the Environment Restoration Fund to protect Carnaby's black cockatoo, a native bird endemic to Southwest Australia and currently listed as endangered due to loss of habitat. [29] [77]

Hastie has been a vocal critic of Australia's net-zero emissions policy. He argues that the 2050 net-zero target is being made in "the name of climate alarmism". [54] [78] Hastie has publicly opposed the Paris Agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and the National Energy Guarantee (NEG). He made it clear in August 2018 that he did not support the NEG as it existed at the time. He cited issues including unclear assurances of energy affordability and energy related risks to national security as his reasons for opposing the policies. [79] In September 2025, following the release of Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment, which highlighted severe and far-reaching social and economic consequences of climate change, Hastie threatened to resign from the Coalition frontbench if the Liberal Party commits to the net-zero emissions target. [78]

Immigration

In 2018, Hastie supported calls for white South African farmers to be resettled in Australia. [80] [81] Hastie then headlined at a rally in 2019, along with fellow Liberal MP Ian Goodenough, in support of the farmers. [82] Hastie has made frequent comments regarding migration to Australia, including some that have been interpreted as critical of former Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley [83] and her leadership. In 2025, he used the phrase "strangers in our own country", popularised by conservative British politician Enoch Powell in a controversial 1968 speech; Hastie used the phrase as part of a claim that migration has been responsible for increasing housing prices and declining quality of life in Australia. [84]

Marriage equality

Hastie campaigned against same-sex marriage, abstaining from the 2017 parliamentary vote to legalise marriage of same-sex couples (he publicly stated he would vote with his constituents and then later refused to vote on religious grounds). [85] [86] [87] [88]

Personal life

Hastie met his wife Ruth while he was undertaking a short course at George Washington University. [89] He subsequently proposed to her on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. The two were married in 2008 at Capitol Hill Baptist Church. Their children were born in Perth in June 2015, August 2017 and November 2021. Hastie lives with his family in the City of Mandurah in the Peel region of Western Australia. [90] [91]

Hastie was described by Labor MP Brian Mitchell as "a man of deep faith". [92] After rejecting religion in adolescence, he later became a part of several reformed and evangelical churches, including Capitol Hill Baptist Church (Washington DC), St Matthew's Anglican Church (Shenton Park), Crossroads Church Canberra (a congregation of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches), and Mandurah Presbyterian Church. [93]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The position of "Deputy Leader in the House of Representatives" is held by Hastie. As Hume is a member of the Senate, it was necessary to elect a House-only deputy for procedural reasons. [1]
  2. ↑ As deputy leader of the Opposition
  3. ↑ As deputy leader of the Liberal Party
  4. ↑ Hamish Hastie is not a relative of Andrew Hastie. [34]

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