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Mark Dreyfus - Member for Isaacs

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Mark Dreyfus - Member for Isaacs

Parliament House Office

PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Tel:
(02) 6277 4305
Fax:
(02) 6277 8484
Email:
Email Mark

Isaacs

Shop No.6, Parkmore Shopping Centre
Cheltenham Road
Keysborough VIC 3173
Tel:
(03) 9769 1955
Fax:
(03) 9769 1977
Web:
http://www.markdreyfus.com

Biography

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

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State: Victoria (Outer Metropolitan)

Name: Named after Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs (1855-1948), Member of the House of Representatives (1901-1906), Chief Justice of the High Court in 1930 and Governor-General of Australia (1931-1936).

Area and Location Description:It 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, Chelsea, Chelsea Heights, Cheltenham, Dandenong South, Edithvale, Keysborough, Lyndhurst, Mentone, Mordialloc, Noble Park, Parkdale, Patterson Lakes, Skye, Springvale South and Waterways.

Products/Industries of the area: Light manufacturing especially around Braeside.

First Proclaimed/Election: 1948/1949

Past Members:

  • Mark Dreyfus (ALP) 2007-
  • Ann Corcoran (ALP) 2000-2007
  • G S Wilton (ALP) 1996-2000
  • R A Atkinson (LP) 1990-96
  • D E Charles (ALP) 1980-90
  • W G Burns (LP) 1977-80
  • D J Hamer (LP) 1975-77
  • G Clayton (ALP) 1974-75
  • D J Hamer (LP) 1969-74
  • W C Haworth (LP) 1949-69