Andrew Murray (Australian politician)
| Andrew Murray | |
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| Senator for Western Australia | |
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In office 1 July 1996 – 30 June 2008 |
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| Royal Commissioner for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse | |
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Assumed office 11 January 2013 Serving with Peter McClellan, Bob Atkinson, Jennifer Coate, Robert Fitzgerald, Helen Milroy |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Andrew James Marshall Murray 29 January 1947 Hove, England |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Democrats |
| Alma mater |
Rhodes University; Oxford University |
| Occupation | Businessman, consultant |
Andrew James Marshall Murray (born 29 January 1947) is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Democrats member of the Australian Senate from 1996 to 2008, representing Western Australia. In 2013, Murray was appointed a Royal Commissioner on the Australian Government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Murray was born in Hove, in the United Kingdom. In 1951 he was sent as a child migrant to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where he was educated before graduating from Rhodes University in South Africa with degrees in English and History. He continued his education at Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1971), where he graduated with degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Returning to Africa, Murray worked as an executive in large corporations, then ran his own businesses. He also worked as a consultant, lecturer and industry journalist and served in the Rhodesian Air Force. He was deported from South Africa in 1968 for opposing the apartheid policies of the white minority régime in his role as Deputy Vice President of the National Union of South African Students. The deportation order was withdrawn in 1977. Murray migrated to Australia in 1989.
Murray was applauded by some as an intelligent and thoughtful debater in the Senate. Others believe that he acted against the wishes of his party's members in voting for the Goods and Services Tax bills in 1999, a stance which caused an irreparable party-room rift, leading to terminal loss of electoral support.
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