Mark Dreyfus is a prominent Melbourne barrister and Queen’s Counsel. Mark has frequently appeared for and advised Victorian and the Commonwealth governments. Including several landmark cases in the High Court, such as the Stolen Generation litigation.
Mark is a former Director of the Law Council of Australia, and has served on the Victorian Bar Ethics Committee and Victorian Bar Council. He also served as a Ministerial Advisor to the Victorian Attorney General (1986-1987).
Mark previously worked as Research Fellow at the National Research Institute of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Mark is married with three children. He is a member of the St Kilda Football Club.
Electorate Profile
Isaacs
State:
VIC
Name Derivation:
Named after Sir Isaac Isaacs 1855-1948, Member of the House of Representatives 1901-06, Chief Justice of the High Court 1930 and Governor-General of Australia 1931-36.
Area and Location Description:
Isaacs covers an area of approximately 171 sq km on the eastern side of Port Phillip Bay from Cheltenham to Seaford then inland to Skye and Noble Park. The main suburbs include Aspendale, Aspendale Gardens, Bonbeach, Braeside, Carrum, Carrum Downs (part), Chelsea, Chelsea Heights, Cheltenham (part), Dandenong South, Edithvale, Keysborough, Lyndhurst (part), Mentone (part), Mordialloc, Noble Park (part), Parkdale, Patterson Lakes, Skye (part), Springvale South (part) and Waterways.
Products/Industries of the Area:
Light manufacturing especially around Braeside.
First Proclaimed/Election:
1948/1949
Demographic Rating:
Outer Metropolitan
Members:
- Dreyfus, M (ALP) 2007-
- Corcoran, A (ALP) 2000-2007
- Wilton, G S (ALP) 1996-2000
- Atkinson, R A (LP) 1990-1996
- Charles, D E (ALP) 1980-1990
- Burns, W G (LP) 1977-1980
- Hamer, D J (LP) 1975-1977
- Clayton, G (ALP) 1974-1975
- Hamer, D J (LP) 1969-1974
- Haworth, W C (LP) 1949-1969