Michael Tate
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Reverend Professor The Honourable Michael Tate AO, LLB (Hons), MA, LLD, DLitt |
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| Minister for Consumer Affairs | |
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In office 4 April 1990 – 27 May 1992 |
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| Prime Minister |
Bob Hawke (1990–1991) Paul Keating (1991–1992) |
| Preceded by | Nick Bolkus |
| Succeeded by | Jeannette McHugh |
| Minister for Justice | |
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In office 18 September 1987 – 24 March 1993 |
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| Prime Minister |
Bob Hawke (1990–1991) Paul Keating (1991–1993) |
| Succeeded by | Duncan Kerr |
| Special Minister of State | |
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In office 16 February 1987 – 24 July 1987 |
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| Prime Minister | Bob Hawke |
| Preceded by | Mick Young |
| Succeeded by | Frank Walker |
| Senator for Tasmania | |
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In office 1 July 1978 – 5 July 1993 |
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| Succeeded by | Kay Denman |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Michael Carter Tate 6 July 1945 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Alma mater |
University of Tasmania University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Priest, legal academic |
Michael Carter Tate AO (born 6 July 1945) is a legal academic and former Australian Labor Party politician who later became an ambassador and then a Catholic priest.
Tate was born in Sydney in 1945. He was educated at St Virgil's College in Hobart, and then studied law at the University of Tasmania, where he resided at St. John Fisher College and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours in 1968. He attributed his achievement to the long hours he spent in libraries, rather than in sporting or social activities, while recovering from a serious road accident in 1963, which hospitalised him in neck-to-knee plaster for five months and required further operations for the next eight years. He later gained a Master of Arts in Theology from the University of Oxford in 1971. He worked as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Tasmania Faculty of Law from 1972 to 1978, serving as Dean of the Faculty from 1977 to 1978.
He served as Legal Adviser to the Tasmanian Parliamentary Delegation to the Constitutional Conventions from 1973 to 1977, and was a member of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace from 1972 to 1978.
He was elected to the Senate representing Tasmania, at the 1977 election, his term commencing on 1 July 1978. He was re-elected in 1983, 1987 and 1993. He was President of the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship 1985 to 1988. In 1986 he chaired two Senate enquiries into the conduct of his former Labor colleague and now High Court justice Lionel Murphy. He concluded that on the civil law standard of proof, the balance of probabilities, Murphy had a case to answer, but not if the criminal standard, beyond reasonable doubt, was applied. He served as Minister for Justice from 1987 to 1993 in the Hawke and Keating governments, in addition to other portfolios. He resigned from the Senate on 5 July 1993.
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