Kep Enderby
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The Honourable Kep Enderby QC |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Australian Capital Territory |
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In office 30 May 1970 – 18 May 1974 |
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| Preceded by | Jim Fraser |
| Succeeded by | Division abolished |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Canberra |
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In office 18 May 1974 – 13 December 1975 |
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| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | John Haslem |
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25 June 1926 Dubbo, New South Wales |
| Died | 8 January 2015 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Occupation | Barrister |
Keppel Earl "Kep" Enderby QC (25 June 1926 – 8 January 2015) was an Australian politician and judge. Enderby was a member of the House of Representatives, representing the Australian Labor Party between 1970 and 1975 and became a senior cabinet minister in the Gough Whitlam government. After politics, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Enderby was born in Dubbo, New South Wales and educated at Dubbo High School. His parents were milk-bar proprietors. He was a trainee pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1944 and 1945. He studied law at the University of Sydney from 1946 to 1950 and was admitted to the New South Wales bar in 1950. From 1950 to 1954, he worked as a barrister in London and studied at the University of London. He also played golf in the British Amateur and Open championships in 1951 and 1952.
He returned to New South Wales in 1955 and practiced law and lectured at Sydney Technical College. Enderby was active with Ken Buckley in the foundation of the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1962, he became a lecturer in law at the Australian National University in Canberra. In 1966, he began practicing law in Canberra while continuing to teach part-time. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1973.
In 1970, Enderby gained Australian Labor Party (ALP) pre-selection for the Division of Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and was subsequently elected to the House of Representatives at a by-election following Jim Fraser's death in April 1970. As the Federal member for the ACT, Kep Enderby was involved in Parliamentary debate over the 1971 Canberra flood. Following Whitlam's victory at the 1972 election, Enderby was appointed as the first Minister for the Capital Territory and the first Minister for the Northern Territory in the December 1972 ministry, replacing the former portfolio of the Interior. In October 1973, he lost these posts, partly because his ACT portfolio made him responsible for implementing policies that were unpopular in his electorate. Instead, he became Minister for Secondary Industry and Minister for Supply. Enderby became the last Minister for Supply—a portfolio which had been established at the beginning of World War II and included responsibility for government munitions factories—when Supply and Secondary Industry were merged into the Manufacturing Industry portfolio in the June 1974 ministry. It was during this time that he made what has become his most famous utterance: "Traditionally, Australia obtains its imports from overseas."
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