Ken Wyatt
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The Honourable Ken Wyatt AM MP |
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Wyatt in 2014
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| Minister for Aged Care | |
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Assumed office 24 January 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Malcolm Turnbull |
| Preceded by | Sussan Ley |
| Minister for Indigenous Health | |
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Assumed office 24 January 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Malcolm Turnbull |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Assistant Minister for Health / Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care | |
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In office 30 September 2015 – 24 January 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Malcolm Turnbull |
| Preceded by | Fiona Nash |
| Succeeded by |
Himself (as Minister for Aged Care) David Gillespie (as Assistant Minister for Health) |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Hasluck |
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Assumed office 21 August 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Sharryn Jackson |
| Personal details | |
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Kenneth George Wyatt 4 August 1952 Bunbury, Western Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Liberal Party of Australia |
| Spouse(s) | Anna-Maria Palermo |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Cedric Wyatt, Ben Wyatt (cousins) |
| Occupation | Public servant |
| Profession | Teacher |
| Website | kenwyatt |
Kenneth George Wyatt AM, MP (born 4 August 1952) is a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the electoral division of Hasluck in Western Australia for the Liberal Party of Australia. Wyatt has served as the Minister for Aged Care and Australia's first Minister for Indigenous Health since January 2017. He previously served as the Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care between September 2015 and January 2017. He is of Aboriginal Australian (Noongar, Yamatji and Wongi), Indian, English and Irish descent, and in 2010 became the first Aboriginal member of the House of Representatives, as well as the first indigenous federal minister in 2017.
Wyatt was born at Roelands Mission farm, near Bunbury south of Perth in Western Australia, a former home for young Indigenous children removed from their families. His mother, Mona Abdullah, was one of the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal children removed from their parents and relocated to Roelands, where she met her husband Don. Wyatt's father's heritage is Yamatji and Irish ancestry. His mother's family heritage is Wongi and Noongar ancestry, while her surname, Abdullah, is from an ancestor who migrated from India to be a cameleer, helping lay the trans-Australia telegraph line.
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