George Brandis

George Henry Brandis QC is the 36th AttorneyGeneral for Australia and has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing Queensland since May 2000. Brandis served as AttorneyGeneral in the Abbott Government from 2013 to 2015, then the Turnbull Government thereafter. He is also Leader of the Government in the Senate and has been the VicePresident of the Executive Council during that period. He also held the post of Minister for the Arts and Sport fromJanuary 2007 until the Howard Government lost the 2007 election.

Brandis was born in Sydney. He attended Christian Brothers High School, Lewisham, Villanova College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 1978 and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours in 1980. Following graduation, he served as Associate to Justice Sheahan of the Queensland Supreme Court. He was then elected a Commonwealth Scholar and obtained a Bachelor of Civil Law from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1983.

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