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Scott Ryan

Scott Ryan was elected as a Senator for Victoria at the 2007 federal election and re-elected in 2013 and 2016. He served in the Abbott ministry as parliamentary secretary for education, and in the Turnbull ministries as minister for vocational education, special minister of state, and minister assisting the prime minister for Cabinet. In 2017 he was elected the twenty-fifth President of the Senate, the youngest person to ever hold the position. Prior to entering parliament, Scott was a consultant in the health and insurance sectors and in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as working as a speechwriter and political adviser, a tutor in politics, and serving as a research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne. Scott was born in Brisbane in 1973 and raised and educated in Melbourne, where he lives with his wife Helen and two sons.

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Events

Rewilding (Willy Lit Fest)

Williamstown Town Hall: CHAMBER 104 Ferguson St, Williamstown, VIC, Australia

  Dominique Hes (The Stories of Newport Lakes) and Lesley Head (Beyond Green) discuss the importance of nature for our urban environments and souls with Dave Witty (What the Trees...

From Yirrkala Bark Petitions to Treaty (Willy Lit Fest)

Williamstown Town Hall: CHAMBER 104 Ferguson St, Williamstown, VIC, Australia

  Clare Wright (Naku Dharuk) and Inala Cooper (Marrul) discuss the impact of First Nations activism. ---- CLARE WRIGHT OAM is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster and public commentator who has worked...

Meet the author: Graeme Turner (ANU, Canberra)

ANU Cinema 153 Tangney Rd, Kambri Cinema (Lowitja O'Donoghue Cultural Centre), Acton, ACT

Graeme Turner will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on his new book Broken: Universities, Politics and the Public Good. A strong higher education system is fundamental to civil society. The...

Launch: Broken by Graeme Turner (Gleebooks, Sydney)

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, New South Wales

A strong higher education system is fundamental to civil society. The building of knowledge and the dissemination of information is vital to the proper functioning of our democracy. At the...