George Newhouse
| George Newhouse | |
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| Councillor of Waverley Council | |
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In office 1995–2008 |
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| Constituency | Hunter Ward |
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| Born | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Occupation | Human rights and social justice lawyer |
| Website | justice |
George Newhouse is an Australian human rights lawyer and a former local councillor. In addition to his private practice, Newhouse is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Macquarie University. He was the Mayor of Waverley in the eastern suburbs of Sydney from 2006 to 2007, and the Labor candidate for the seat of Wentworth at the 2007 Australian federal election. Newhouse is the principal solicitor of the National Justice Project, a human rights and social justice legal service. He is also a certified practicing accountant (CPA). In 2017, George was the recipient of the Ron Castan Humanitarian Award.
Newhouse attended Sydney Grammar School and then studied Law and Commerce at the University of New South Wales.
After leaving university, Newhouse joined JPMorgan in Sydney as a corporate finance executive and was later transferred to JPMorgan's New York office. From New York. He moved to London where he worked for two years as a capital markets lawyer for Clifford Chance. In 1990 he returned to Sydney and continued working as a lawyer with Swaab & Associates. He became an accredited mediator and was a member of the Consumer Trader Tenancy Tribunal from 1999 to 2007 and a mediator for the Workers Compensation Commission from 2001 to 2010.
In addition to his expertise in social justice law, Newhouse specialises in defamation, privacy, negligence, property, finance and planning law. He is an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University where he teaches law and is also the chapter editor of Thomson Reuters The Laws of Australia: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders – Civil Justice Issues.
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