David Fawcett | |
---|---|
Assistant Minister for Defence | |
In office 26 August 2018 –26 May 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Scott Morrison |
Preceded by | Michael McCormack (2016) |
Succeeded by | Alex Hawke |
Senator for South Australia | |
Assumed office 1 July 2011 | |
Member of the Australian Parliament for Wakefield | |
In office 9 October 2004 –24 November 2007 | |
Preceded by | Neil Andrew |
Succeeded by | Nick Champion |
Personal details | |
Born | Narrabri,New South Wales,Australia | 23 October 1963
Political party | Liberal |
Residence(s) | Adelaide,South Australia,Australia |
Alma mater | University of New South Wales |
Occupation | Pilot &army officer |
Awards | Australian Defence Medal Defence Long Service Medal (with clasp) |
Website | http://www.senatorfawcett.com.au/ |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Commonwealth of Australia |
Branch/service | Australian Army |
Years of service | 1982–2004 |
Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
Unit | Australian Army Aviation |
David Julian Fawcett (born 23 October 1963) is an Australian Liberal Party politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 2011. Fawcett served in the Morrison government as Assistant Minister for Defence from 2018 to 2019.
Fawcett was previously elected to federal parliament,serving for one term as member for the House of Representatives seat of Wakefield in South Australia,elected at the 2004 election.
Fawcett was born on 23 October 1963 in Narrabri,New South Wales. [1] His family is originally from Kapunda,South Australia. [2] He spent part of his childhood in Thailand where his father had been sent under the Colombo Plan. He returned to Australia in 1975 to attend Prince Alfred College in Adelaide. [3]
Fawcett graduated from the Royal Military College Duntroon with a Bachelor of Science in 1985. He joined the Australian Army Aviation Corps and qualified as a pilot,flying fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. He qualified as a test pilot through the Empire Test Pilots' School in 1993 and was a senior flying instructor at the Oakey Army Aviation Centre,finishing his full-time military service in 2004. [3] He was posted to Royal Australian Air Force Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU) at Edinburgh,South Australia as an Army helicopter test pilot. He held a number of positions in ARDU and the Defence Acquisition Organisation,culminating in his final appointment as Commanding Officer, [4] responsible for flight test programs for all of the Australian Defence Force aircraft. He reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before leaving the ADF to enter politics. [5]
Prior to the 2004 election,the seat of Wakefield had been dramatically altered in a redistribution. The seat had long been a safe rural Liberal seat stretching from the Yorke Peninsula through to the Riverland and the state's border,but upon the abolition of the safe metropolitan Labor seat of Bonython,Wakefield was moved to take in the outer northern Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth and part of Salisbury,spanning through to the rural mid-north town of Clare—roughly a fifth the size of its former incarnation. The Liberals held the old Wakefield with a comfortably safe two-party margin of 14.6 points,but the new Wakefield was notionally a marginal Labor seat with a two-party margin of just 1.3 points. The previous Liberal member,Neil Andrew,believed this made Wakefield unwinnable and opted not to recontest the seat in 2004. However,Fawcett narrowly defeated the Labor candidate,ex-Bonython MP Martyn Evans,on a swing of 2.2 points,taking the seat on Family First preferences. Despite an extensive campaign at the 2007 election,Fawcett was defeated by Labor's Nick Champion,suffering a large swing of 7.2 points.
Fawcett was elected as a Liberal Senator in South Australia at the 2010 election and assumed his seat on 1 July 2011. [6] [7]
He served as deputy Government whip in 2014-2016,then from 2016 to 2022. [8] [9] Fawcett has served extensively in Parliamentary committees,chairing Foreign Affairs,Defence and Trade while in government,then as Deputy Chair while in opposition.
Fawcett is a member of the National Right faction of the Liberal Party, [10] after previously being aligned with the Centre-Right faction during the Morrison government years. [11]
Fawcett is married with two children. [12] He has been involved in leadership positions at Clovercrest Baptist Church in Modbury North,Adelaide and Tyndale Christian School in Salisbury East,Adelaide. [12] He has been a contributing member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the Australian Flight Test Society. [12]
John Neil Andrew is a former Australian politician. He served in the House of Representatives for over 20 years from 1983 to 2004 representing the Division of Wakefield in South Australia for the Liberal Party. He became the 24th Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1998, a position he held until 2004.
Ross Xavier Vasta is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2010, representing the Division of Bonner for the Liberal Party. He previously held the same seat from 2004 to 2007.
The Division of Barker is an Australian electoral division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member divisions. It is named for Captain Collet Barker, a British military officer and early explorer, prior to the British Settlement of South Australia, of the southern Mount Lofty Ranges, Fleurieu Peninsula and the region at the mouth of the Murray River near the Coorong where he tragically lost his life in 1831 whilst on active duty after successfully solo swimming the channel of water and went Compass in hand over a sandhill.
The Division of Bonython was an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia between 1955 and 2004. The division was named for Hon Sir John Langdon Bonython KCMG, who was an Australian editor, newspaper proprietor, philanthropist, journalist and politician who served as a member of the inaugural federal Parliament. Bonython was abolished in 2004, after a redistribution triggered by a change in representation entitlement which saw South Australia's seats in the House of Representatives reduced to eleven.
The Division of Port Adelaide was an Australian electoral division in the state of South Australia. The 181 km2 seat extended from St Kilda in the north to Grange Road and Findon in the south with part of Salisbury to the east. Suburbs included Alberton, Beverley, Birkenhead, Cheltenham, Findon, Kilkenny, Largs Bay, Mansfield Park, North Haven, Ottoway, Parafield Gardens, Paralowie, Pennington, Port Adelaide, Queenstown, Rosewater, Salisbury Downs, Semaphore, Woodville, West Croydon, and part of Seaton. The seat also included Torrens Island and Garden Island. Port Adelaide was abolished in 2019, after a redistribution triggered by a change in representation entitlement which saw South Australia's seats in the House of Representatives reduced to ten.
The Division of Wakefield was an Australian electoral division in the state of South Australia. The seat was a hybrid rural-urban electorate that stretched from Salisbury in the outer northern suburbs of Adelaide at the south of the seat right through to the Clare Valley at the north of the seat, 135 km from Adelaide. It included the suburbs of Elizabeth, Craigmore, Munno Para, and part of Salisbury, and the towns of Balaklava, Clare, Freeling, Gawler, Kapunda, Mallala, Riverton, Tarlee, Virginia, Williamstown, and part of Port Wakefield.
Simon John Birmingham is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 2007. A member of the Liberal Party, he served in the Morrison government as Minister for Finance from 2020 to 2022 and as Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as Minister for Education and Training in the Turnbull government from 2015 to 2018, and as a parliamentary secretary and assistant minister in the Abbott government.
Nicholas David Champion is an Australian politician. He is a member of the South Australian Labor Party and has served in the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2022 South Australian state election, representing the seat of Taylor. He has served as the Minister for Trade and Investment, Minister for Housing and Urban Development and Minister for Planning in the Malinauskas ministry since March 2022.
This article provides details on candidates who stood for the 2004 Australian federal election. The election was held on 9 October 2004.
Rowan Eric Ramsey is the Liberal Party of Australia member for the House of Representatives seat of Grey since the 2007 election, succeeding previous Liberal member Barry Wakelin. Grey covers most of rural South Australia − over 92 percent of the state by area.
Anne Sowerby Ruston is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Families and Social Services in the Morrison government from 2019 to 2022. She has been a Senator for South Australia since 2012.
David Bernard Coleman is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2013 federal election, holding the New South Wales seat of Banks. Coleman served as the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention from December 2020 until May 2022. He previously served as Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs in the Morrison government from August 2018, although in December 2019 he took indefinite leave for personal reasons. He had earlier served as Assistant Minister for Finance in the Turnbull government from 2017 to 2018.
Antony "Tony" Pasin is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia for the House of Representatives seat of Barker since the 2013 election.
Andrew Lockhart McLachlan is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 6 February 2020, representing the Liberal Party of Australia. He was previously a member of the South Australian Legislative Council, having been elected at the 2014 state election, and was subsequently elected President of the South Australian Legislative Council in May 2018. He resigned as president and member of the Legislative Council in February 2020, to take up the vacant seat in the Senate caused by the resignation of Cory Bernardi.
The South Australian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division), and often shortened to SA Liberals, is the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. It was formed as the Liberal and Country League (LCL) in 1932 and became the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945. It retained its Liberal and Country League name before changing to its current name in 1974. It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Australian Labor Party (SA Branch). The party is led by Vincent Tarzia since 12 August 2024.
James William Stevens is the Liberal Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Sturt in South Australia. He was elected in the 2019 Australian federal election, replacing the retiring Liberal member, Christopher Pyne. Stevens previously served as the Chief of Staff to Steven Marshall, the former Premier of South Australia, and prior to that as the General Manager of Michell Australia.
Alexander Charles Antic is an Australian politician who has been a senator for South Australia since 2019 representing the Liberal Party.
David Allan Van is an Australian politician. He was elected as a member of the Liberal Party and was sworn in as a federal senator representing the state of Victoria on 1 July 2019.
The Albanese ministry is the 73rd ministry of the Government of Australia. It is led by the country's 31st Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. The Albanese ministry succeeded the second Morrison ministry, which resigned on 23 May 2022 following the federal election that took place on 21 May which saw Labor defeat Scott Morrison's Liberal–National Coalition.
Kerrynne Liddle is an Australian politician and the first Indigenous federal member of parliament from South Australia. She is an Arrernte woman and member of the Liberal Party. She was elected to the Senate on the party's ticket in South Australia at the 2022 federal election, to a term beginning on 1 July 2022. She was a journalist and corporate manager before entering politics.