Charles Christian Porter is an Australian Liberal Party politician and lawyer serving as Attorney-General of Australia since 2017. He has served as Member of Parliament for Pearce since 2013. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister in the Abbott Government from December 2014 to September 2015, and then Minister for Social Services in the Turnbull Government from September 2015 to December 2017. Porter is the son of the 1956 Olympic silver medallist, Charles \”Chilla\” Porter, and the grandson of Queensland Liberal politician, Charles Porter.
About Christian Porter in brief
Charles Christian Porter is an Australian Liberal Party politician and lawyer serving as Attorney-General of Australia since 2017. He has served as Member of Parliament for Pearce since 2013. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister in the Abbott Government from December 2014 to September 2015, and then Minister for Social Services in the Turnbull Government from September 2015 to December 2017. Porter is the son of the 1956 Olympic silver medallist, Charles \”Chilla\” Porter, and the grandson of Queensland Liberal politician, Charles Porter. His grandfather, Charles Robert Porter, was a Queensland Liberal state MP between 1966 and 1980. Porter was educated at Hale School, the University of Western Australia and later the London School of Economics, and practised law at Clayton Utz and taught law at the University. He is a graduate of the London school of Economics with first-class honours in politics, before completing a Bachelor of Laws degree. Before entering Parliament, Porter worked predominantly as a lawyer, starting as a commercial litigator before moving to public practice.
He spent a year as an advisor to the Federal Minister for Justice and then began working for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions as a senior state prosecutor. In December 2010, Porter was sworn in as Treasurer, and held both portfolios until June 2012, when he resigned from the ministry to contest the 2013 federal election. In 2016, Centrelink, operating under Porter’s senior oversight as Social Services Minister, became involved in a debt recovery controversy. During his time in this ministry, he was instrumental in the formation of the coalition policy of performing drug tests on welfare recipients, which was considered by experts to be bad policy. This section of the legislation was eventually dropped to allow people to get off welfare. Porter also skipped the final sittings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in order to attend the cricket match with John Howard. He will be appointed Minister for Industrial Relations and Leader of the House in 2019.
You want to know more about Christian Porter?
This page is based on the article Christian Porter published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 07, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
