Kevin Andrews (Australian politician)
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Kevin James Andrews (born 9 November 1955), is an Australian politician and has been the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations in the Howard Government since 7 October 2003 [link].
Andrews has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Menzies in Victoria. He was born in Sale, Victoria, and was educated at Monash University, Melbourne. He was a barrister before entering politics. He is known for being a staunch Catholic.
Andrews was Co-ordinator of Continuing Legal Education for the Law Institute of Victoria from 1981 to 1983, and an Associate to Sir James Gobbo, Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, from 1983 to 1985.
As a backbencher, Andrews authored a bill which later overrode Northern Territory legislation that legalised euthanasia (ie. the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1996). Andrews' Euthanasia Laws Bill 1996 is one of only fifteen Private Member's Bills implemented as law in Australian Parliamentary history and the second in ten years.
Andrews was Minister for Ageing from 26 November 2001 to 7 October 2003, and as Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, was responsible for introducing the Howard Government's major changes to industrial relations law in 2005.
On June 22, 2006, the NSW leader of the Liberal Party's coalition partner, the National Party, Andrew Stoner MP, described Mr Andrews as a "D**khead". [link]
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