John Murphy (Australian politician)

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John Paul Murphy (born 31 May 1950), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Lowe, New South Wales. He was born in Dunedoo, New South Wales, and was a public servant before entering politics.

Murphy is considered a hard-working local member, who has fought hard on the issues of aircraft noise, an MRI licence for the local hospital at Concord, health and childcare. In the 2001 Federal Election the average swing against Labor was 2.26%. Murphy, however, suffered a minor swing of only 0.9%.

He is an outspoken critic of the Federal Government's proposed cross-media ownership reforms and sale of Telstra. He is also well for his work to crack down on tax barristers who cheat the tax system.

He is the Parliamentary Secretary to Labor Leader Kim Beazley, however, supported Simon Crean and Mark Latham in the leadership ballots of 2003.

He is married to Adrianna Murphy.

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NAME	Murphy, John Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	31 May 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dunedoo, New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH	living
PLACE OF DEATH