Joe Ludwig

Senator The Honourable Joe Ludwig

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 September 2010
Preceded by	Tony Burke
Personal details
Born	21 July 1959 (1959-07-21) (age 52) Longreach, Queensland, Australia
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Website	[1]

Senator the Hon Joseph William Ludwig (born 21 July 1959), Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland since July 1999, representing the Australian Labor Party.

Biography

Ludwig was born in Longreach. He is married and lives in Brisbane with his wife and two daughters. His father, Bill Ludwig, is National President of the Australian Workers Union, one of Australia's largest trade unions, and is a powerful figure in the Queensland branch of the Labor Party. Ludwig was educated at the University of Queensland, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, the Queensland University of Technology, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws, and the Australian National University, where he completed a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.

Senator Ludwig began his career as an Industrial Inspector and Training Consultant, before moving to the Queensland Branch of the Australian Workers’ Union.

Prior to entering the Australian Senate, Senator Ludwig was a barrister and served with the Australian Army Reserve.

Senator Ludwig was a Deputy Opposition Whip in the Senate 2000–01, and was elected to the Opposition Shadow Ministry in October 2004 as Shadow Minister for Justice and Customs and Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate. He was promoted to Shadow Attorney-General and Manager of Opposition Business in March 2007 following the resignation of Kelvin Thomson.^[1]

Senator Ludwig was appointed Minister for Human Services following the election of a Labor government in the November 2007 election.^[2]

Senator Ludwig was promoted to Cabinet Secretary and Special Minister of State in June 2009.

Following the ALP forming government after the 2010 election, Senator Ludwig was appointed as Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.^[3]

He is also Manager of Government Business in the Senate, a position he has held in both the Rudd and Gillard Governments.

On 5 January 2011 he was given the added responsibility of Minister Assisting the Attorney-General on Queensland Floods Recovery.^[4]

References

^ Grattan, Michelle; et al. "Labor shadow minister is latest Mokbel victim", The Age, 10 March 2007.
^ "Rudd hands out portfolios". http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/29/2105169.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-29.
^ "Second Gillard Ministry". http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/minlist.pdf. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
^ http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/ludwig-appointed-to-oversee-flood-response-20110105-19fpx.html

Parliament of Australia
Preceded by Chris Ellison	Minister for Human Services	Succeeded by Chris Bowen
Preceded by John Faulkner	Special Minister of State 2009–2010	Succeeded by Gary Gray
Preceded by John Faulkner	Cabinet Secretary 2009–2010	Succeeded by Mark Dreyfus
Preceded by Tony Burke	Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 2010–	Succeeded by Incumbent

Current members of the Cabinet of Australia

Gillard · Swan · Rudd · Evans · Faulkner · Crean · Smith · Roxon · Macklin · Albanese · Conroy · Carr · Wong · Garrett · McClelland · Ludwig · Burke · Ferguson · Bowen · Emerson · Combet

Rudd Cabinet (2007–10)

Prime Minister: Kevin Rudd

Anthony Albanese • Chris Bowen • Tony Burke • Kim Carr • Stephen Conroy • Simon Crean • Chris Evans • John Faulkner • Martin Ferguson • Joel Fitzgibbon • Peter Garrett • Julia Gillard • Joe Ludwig • Jenny Macklin • Robert McClelland • Nicola Roxon • Stephen Smith • Wayne Swan • Lindsay Tanner • Penny Wong

Current members of the Australian Senate

NSW

Mark Arbib (ALP) • Doug Cameron (ALP) • John Faulkner (ALP) • Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (Lib) • Bill Heffernan (Lib) • Fiona Nash (Nat) • Marise Payne (Lib) • Lee Rhiannon (Grn) • Arthur Sinodinos (Lib) • Ursula Stephens (ALP) • Matt Thistlethwaite (ALP) • John Williams (Nat)

Vic

Kim Carr (ALP) • Jacinta Collins (ALP) • Stephen Conroy (ALP) • Richard Di Natale (Grn) • David Feeney (ALP) • Mitch Fifield (Lib) • Helen Kroger (Lib) • Bridget McKenzie (Nat) • John Madigan (DLP) • Gavin Marshall (ALP) • Michael Ronaldson (Lib) • Scott Ryan (Lib)

Qld

Ron Boswell (Nat) • Sue Boyce (Lib) • George Brandis (Lib) • Mark Furner (ALP) • John Hogg (ALP) • Barnaby Joyce (Nat) • Joe Ludwig (ALP) • Ian Macdonald (Lib) • Jan McLucas (ALP) • Brett Mason (Lib) • Claire Moore (ALP) • Larissa Waters (Grn)

Judith Adams (Lib) • Chris Back (Lib) • Mark Bishop (ALP) • Michaelia Cash (Lib) • Mathias Cormann (Lib) • Alan Eggleston (Lib) • Chris Evans (ALP) • David Johnston (Lib) • Scott Ludlam (Grn) • Louise Pratt (ALP) • Rachel Siewert (Grn) • Glenn Sterle (ALP)

Cory Bernardi (Lib) • Simon Birmingham (Lib) • Sean Edwards (Lib) • Don Farrell (ALP) • David Fawcett (Lib) • Mary Jo Fisher (Lib) • Alex Gallacher (ALP) • Sarah Hanson-Young (Grn) • Anne McEwen (ALP) • Penny Wong (ALP) • Penny Wright (Grn) • Nick Xenophon (Ind)

Tas

Eric Abetz (Lib) • Catryna Bilyk (ALP) • Bob Brown (Grn) • Carol Brown (ALP) • David Bushby (Lib) • Richard Colbeck (Lib) • Christine Milne (Grn) • Stephen Parry (Lib) • Helen Polley (ALP) • Nick Sherry (ALP) • Lisa Singh (ALP) • Anne Urquhart (ALP)

Territories

ACT	Gary Humphries (Lib) • Kate Lundy (ALP)

NT	Trish Crossin (ALP) • Nigel Scullion (CLP)

Labor (ALP) • Democratic Labor (DLP) • Greens (Grn) • Liberal (Lib) • Country Liberal (CLP) • National (Nat)

Persondata
Name	Ludwig, Joe
Alternative names	Ludwig, Joseph William
Short description	Australian politician
Date of birth	21 July 1959
Place of birth	Longreach, Queensland
Date of death	Living person
Place of death

Joe Ludwig

Biography

References

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