Gary Humphries
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Gary John Joseph Humphries (born 6 July 1958) is a Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
He was a member of the Australian Senate representing the Australian Capital Territory for the Liberal Party of Australia from 2003 to 2013.
He was the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2000 to 2001; and was elected to the first parliament of the Australian Capital Territory, in 1989, later representing the Molonglo electorate until 2003.
Early career
Humphries was born in 1958 and was educated at St Patrick's College, Strathfield, before graduating from the Australian National University in Canberra with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws. He was elected President of the ANU Students' Association in 1977. Prior to self-government, he served as a solicitor, a civil service in the ACT Administration, and a political advisor to Senator Amanda Vanstone.
Political career
At the 1989 election, Humpries was elected to the unicameral Legislative Assembly. The first self-government of the Australian Capital Territory was established in this election. In a multi-member electorate covering the entire ACT, Humphries represented the Liberal Party. Humphries was re-elected in 1992 (again in a single vote) and in the Molongue multi-member electorate.
Humphries served in various shadow ministerial posts in the Kaine and Carnell oppositions. Humphries was appointed Minister for Health, Education, and the Arts in late 1989, when Trevor Kaine became the Chief Minister in a hung parliament. He was in this position until the Labor Party led by Rosemary Follett regained power in mid-1991. Humphries was the Opposition leader for a short period in 1991 and then in 2001-02.
Humphries was appointed to the following departments in 1995, when Carnell took over as the Prime Minister.
Humphries succeeded Carnell as Prime Minister in 2000, but the Treasuryr's portfolio was retained. The Liberal government lost control at the 2001 election. The Australian Labor Party, led by Jon Stanhope, formed the Government with the help of the ACT Greens and Democrats.
Humphries was elected by the party's membership in December 2002 to fill a upcoming casual vacancy in the Senate owing to Margaret Reid's resignation. Reid officially resigned on February 14, 2003, and Humphries was elected by the ACT Legislative Assembly on February 18 to fill the casual vacancy. He became the Senate's 500th individual to serve.
Liberals were insecure about his re-election bid for the Senate seat in 2004, but the Liberals carried the election by 97 votes to 43, with 43 people voting for 'none of the above'. Humphries was re-elected in 2004 with a 1.1361 quotas. Humphries was elected unopposed in the pre-election election held on June 26, 2007, and the 2007 federal election was re-elected to the Senate later this year, receiving 1.03 percent. The Senate seat of Humphries was targeted by an online advocacy group GetUp, as part of a movement to ban any one political group from holding a majority of the seats in the federal upper house. For the first time, a coalition senator could fail to hold their position in the ACT, raising the profile of the campaign.
When Humphries voted to reverse the Federal Government's ban on the ACT's civil unions law in the Senate, he became the first Liberal senator to vote against the Howard Government in his 11.5 years in office, saying that the Commonwealth should not be allowed to automatically reverse ACT decisions.
Humphries has served on many Australian Senate committees, including the Select Committee on Mental Health (2005-2006). He became Chairman of the Standing Committee on Community Affairs in 2006. And is currently the Vice Chair of the Senate Legislation Committee and Chair of the Privileges—Standing Committee with a long presence in several others.
Humphries was promoted to the Front Bench in 2009, following Tony Abbott's as the Opposition's Leader. He was re-elected in the 2010 federal election with a 1.0118 quotas and was retained on the Opposition frontbench as Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Materiel.
Humphries' Liberal pre-election bid to Zed Seselja, one of his successors, was defeated by him on February 23, 2013. This caused a lot of confusion, particularly because many of the party members, including several prominent ones, were refused from voting. The result was 114 (Seselja) to 84 (Humphries), or 58% to 42 percent. On the 27th of March 2013, a higher voter turnout and vote was held, but it did not succeed in reverse to reverse the outcome. The vote, 168-138 or 55%, was closer to the first one than the first one.
Humphries' term as a senator came to an end on September 6, 2013, the day before the 2013 election.
Following the Senate preselection election result, there was a lot of resentment and controversies. For example, Humphries refused to attend a dinner that the party's chief held for him because of the way it had been planned. The Margaret Reid Award for distinguished service was withheld from Humphries in May 2014, a significant party presentation by the party's leadership committee. This was for remarks dismissive of the party and some of its supporters, such as Opposition Leader Jeremy Hanson, who became Opposition leader after Seselja replaced Humphries as a Senator. One submission, particularly one regarding the Canberra Liberals' loss of contact with the ACT community, raised the committee's suspicions, and Hanson condemned him publicly.
In reaction to the preselection vote and the suggestion that the Canberra Liberals' far right was leading the party, a faction called the Menzies Group was formed. Humphries was instrumental in the formation of this group. It had been around for a long time, but now seems to have disassembled.
Humphries resigned from Canberra's Liberal Party on December 14, 2014. He told supporters that the Canberra Liberal Party in its current state was, among other things, undemocratic, still out of touch with the ACT population, unable to control its finances, and dominated by the far right. Hanson condemned Humphries for publicly condemning them.
Later career
Gary Humphries began working as a lobbyist with 1st State Government and Corporate Relations after leaving the Senate. Humphries has been a regular contributor to the Canberra-based RiotACT and Fairfax press, particularly The Canberra Times.
In March 2014, Humphries was elected Chair of the Anzac Centenary Public Fund Board.
From January 2015, he was appointed as a Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.