Frank Terenzini

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office = Member of Legislative Assembly of New South Wales
term_start = 24 March 2007
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constituency = Electoral district of Maitland
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birth_date = 19 August 1961
birth_place = Newcastle, New South Wales
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party = Australian Labor Party
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Frank Terenzini is an Australian politican, lawyer and former teacher.

Terenzini was born 19 August 1961 at Newcastle to Giuseppe and Angela Terenzini. He attended public schools in the Hunter region. He left school at 16 to become an apprentice boilermaker at the BHP Steelworks. He later completed an apprenticeship as a motor mechanic and spent the next 10 years in the motor repair industry, eventually becoming motor vehicle inspector with the Roads and Traffic Authority. He went on to teach apprentices at TAFE and eventually obtained a Diploma in Teaching from the University of Technology, Sydney.

He continued his studies and became interested in law. He studied at Macquarie University externally and was awarded a Bachelor of Legal Studies (B.Leg.S) On 30 June 1994 he was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He worked in private practice as a solicitor and also in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. He was worked as a prosecutor for 10 years. [http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20070530017]

In 2007 he stood for and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales for the electorate of Maitland. He is currently a Member of the Standing Committee on Parliamentary Privilege and Ethics and is also the Chair of the Committee on the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

He is married and has two children.

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