Gordon Ramsay (politician)

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Gordon Ramsay, October 2016
Attorney-General
In office
31 October 2016 –17 October 2020

Ramsay was raised in the southern Sydney suburb of Banksia, and attended primary schools at Rockdale and Hurstville before Sydney Boys' High School. He studied law at the University of Sydney graduating with a degree of Bachelor of Arts LLB (Hons), and then was admitted as a solicitor.

Uniting Church

Ramsay felt called to Christian ministry, and undertook the selection processes of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) before being accepted for training at the Uniting Church Centre for Ministry in Sydney. He first served at Kingsgrove/Bardwell Park UCA.

1997–2016

From 1997–2016, he was the Executive Minister at Kippax Uniting Church in the north-western suburbs of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. This untypically long period of ministry in one church was characterised by his evolution as a spokesperson and organiser for social justice. The major speech at his end-of-ministry ceremony on 3 April 2016 was given by Lin Hatfield Dodds. [2] He remains a Minister of the UCA, [3] in a similar way that Hon. Brian Howe remained a UCA Minister while serving in the Parliament of Australia.

During this period, he worked in the ACT Anti Poverty Week, ACT Council of Social Services, and was a member of the ACT Community Inclusion Board and a Community Inclusion Advocate. He was a Community Champion for the 2020 Time To Talk movement, and a member of the ACT Better Services Taskforce. In 2012, Ramsay led the ACT Targeted Assistance Strategy.

He was a finalist in the 2015 ACT Local Hero category of the Australian of the Year awards. [4]

He served on the Board of UnitingCare NSW–ACT (later "Uniting") from 2011, and chaired the Board from 2014–2016.

Politician

2016 election

Ramsay announced his candidacy for the Labor Party in the 2016 Australian Capital Territory general election, for the Ginninderra electorate. His election material dubbed him "Our Gordon Ramsay" and used visual metaphors from the other (chef) Gordon Ramsay.

He was initially indicated to be the third Labor candidate in the five member electorate. [5] [6] Ramsay finished the count 722 votes ahead of Greens candidate Indra Esguerra, and was thus a recipient of a distribution from her in the last round. [7]

Ministry

At the first Labor Caucus meeting, on 24 October 2016, Ramsay was elected to the new seven-member Cabinet. [1]

Ramsay's ministerial responsibilities were announced on the first sitting day of the Assembly, 31 October 2016, as:

2020:

Previous:

2020 election

In the 2020 Australian Capital Territory general election, Ramsay lost the last seat decided by 167 votes to ACT Liberals candidate, Peter Cain, with the result being announced late on 23 October 2020. Ramsay increased his personal vote from 8.3 per cent in 2016 to 8.5 per cent, but did not benefit from the boost that most sitting MLAs receive. [9]

Post politics

Ramsay established a consultancy business in November 2020. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 New ACT MLAs Rachel Stephen-Smith and Gordon Ramsey leapfrog into Cabinet, ABC News Online, 24 October 2016
  2. ↑ "Gordon's Farewell". Kippax Uniting Church. 4 April 2016. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  3. ↑ Gordon Ramsay crying in the ACT Legislative Assembly. ABC News. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  4. ↑ Gallagher, Katy (4 November 2014). "2015 ACT Australians of the Year announced". Her Canberra. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  5. ↑ ACT election 2016: who has been elected to the Legislative Assembly?, Canberra Times, 16 October 2016, accessed 21 October 2016
  6. ↑ 2016 ACT Election – Elected Members by Interim Preference Distribution, Antony Green, ABC News Online, 18 October 2016, accessed 21 October 2016
  7. ↑ ACT election 2016: full list of elected MLAs released, Matthew Raggatt, Canberra Times, 22 October 2016, accessed 24 October 2016
  8. ↑ ACT new Labor ministry revealed as Andrew Barr formally re-elected as Chief Minister, ABC News Online, 31 October 2016
  9. ↑ Liberals and Greens win last two ACT election seats as Electoral Commissioner announces final results, Markus Mannheim, ABC News Online, 2020-10-24
  10. ↑ Gordon R Ramsay, LinkedIn profile, accessed 2020-11-15
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