Duncan Kerr
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The Hon. Duncan James Colquhoun Kerr, SC (born 26 February 1952), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since July 1987, representing the Division of Denison, Tasmania. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and was educated at the University of Tasmania, where at one stage he was President of the Tasmania University Union. He was Crown Counsel in the Tasmanian Solicitor-General's Department and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Papua New Guinea before entering politics. He is the author of Annotated Constitution of Papua New Guinea (1985), Essays on the Constitution(1985) and Reinventing Socialism (1992).
He is Chairman of the Parliamentary Group for Drug Law Reform which seeks to use harm minimization towards drug use in Australia.
Kerr was Minister for Justice 1993-96 and briefly Attorney-General in 1993. He was a member of Opposition Shadow Ministry 1996-2001. After the 2001 election he intended to resign and enter state politics, but he was prevented from doing so by the party's central office and leader Simon Crean, who wanted to prevent a by-election which Labor might well have lost to the Australian Greens. He was appointed a Senior Counsel in 2003.
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| Parliament of Australia | ||
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| Preceded by Michael Hodgman |
Member for Denison 1987 – present |
Incumbent |
| Preceded by Michael Tate |
Minister for Justice 1993–1996 |
Succeeded by Daryl Williams |
| Preceded by Michael Duffy |
Attorney-General of Australia 1993 |
Succeeded by Michael Lavarch |
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| NAME | Kerr, Duncan James Colquhoun |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Australian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 26 February 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | living |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
