Gordon Ramsay (politician)
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Gordon Ramsay MLA |
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Gordon Ramsay, October 2016
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| Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly for Ginninderra |
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Assumed office 15 October 2016 |
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Assumed office 31 October 2016 |
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| Leader | Andrew Barr |
| Preceded by | Simon Corbell |
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Lyndelle Ramsay |
| Occupation | Uniting Church minister |
| Profession | Solicitor |
Gordon Ramsay (born 1964) is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory, representing the Ginninderra electorate. He was elected to be a Minister in the Barr government.
Ramsay has also been a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia, and earlier a lawyer in New South Wales.
Ramsay was raised in the southern Sydney suburb of Banksia, and attended primary schools at Rockdale and Hurstville before Sydney Boys' High School. He studied law at the University of Sydney graduating with a degree of Bachelor of Arts LLB (Hons), and then was admitted as a solicitor.
Ramsay felt called to Christian ministry, and undertook the selection processes of the Uniting Church before being accepted for training at the Uniting Church Centre for Ministry in Sydney. He first served at Kingsgrove/Bardwell Park UCA.
From 1997–2016, he was the Executive Minister at Kippax Uniting Church in the north-western suburbs of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. This untypically long period of ministry in one church was characterised by his evolution as a spokesperson and organiser for social justice. The major speech at his end-of-ministry ceremony on 3 April 2016 was given by Lin Hatfield Dodds. He technically remains a Minister of the UCA, in a similar way that Hon. Brian Howe remained a UCA Minister while serving in the Parliament of Australia.
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