Arch Bevis

Arch Bevis

Infobox MP
honorific-prefix = The Hon
name = Arch Bevis
honorific-suffix = MP


constituency_MP = Brisbane
parliament = Australian
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predecessor = Manfred Cross
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term_start = 1990
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nationality = Australian
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party = Australian Labor Party
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Archibald Ronald "Arch" Bevis (born 10 April 1955), Australian politician, has been a Labor member of the
Australian House of Representatives since 1990, representing the Division of Brisbane, Queensland. He was born in Brisbane, and educated at Ithaca Creek State Primary School and The Gap State High School and graduated as a teacher from the then Brisbane CAE (now QUT).

Bevis worked as a teacher between 1975 and 1977. He became the National President of Young Labor in 1978, after becoming State President three years earlier. Between 1978 and 1980, Bevis worked as an organiser for the Queensland Teachers Union. In 1980, he was promoted to Deputy General Secretary, a position he held until 1990. From 1988-90, he was also a member of the Labor Party's national executive. He was elected Vice-President of the Australian Labor Party from 2000-02.

After being elected to the House of Representatives at the 1990 election, Bevis served on a number of committees. He chaired the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology from 1992-93 and the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters from 1992-94. From 1994 to 1996, he was also the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Defence.

After Labor lost the 1996 election, Bevis was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet. From 1996 to 1998, he was Shadow Minister for Defence, and from 1998 to 2001 Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations. He left the Shadow Ministry in 2001, but was reinstated in 2004. He was Shadow Minister for Defence Planning, Procurement and Personnel and Shadow Minister Assisting the Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations 2004-05 and was Shadow Minister for Homeland Security; Aviation and Transport Security in 2005-06. He was appointed Shadow Minister for Homeland Security and Territories in December 2006. In 2007 the Justice and Custom portfolios was added to Homeland Security and Territories. Following the 2007 federal election, Bevis was elected Chairperson of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, and Chairperson of the Joint Defence Sub-Committee.

References

External links

* [http://www.archbevis.com/ Personal website]
*OpenAustralia


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