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Record #5399

Name :: : Andrew James Marshall MURRAY (1947 - )
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Date of Birth: : 29 Jan 1947
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Sussex, Hove

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 1951
Country: : Rhodesia
Ship: : - Unknown -
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Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Fairbridge Homes

NotesAndrew J. M. Murray was born in Hove, England, in the United Kingdom. In 1951 he was sent as a child migrant to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where he was educated before going to university in South Africa. He continued his education at Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1971), where he gained a Master of Arts degree.

Returning to Africa, Murray worked as an executive in large corporations, then ran his own businesses. He also worked as a consultant, lecturer and industry journalist and served in the Rhodesian Air Force. He was deported from South Africa in 1968 for opposing the apartheid policies of the white minority r?gime. The deportation order was withdrawn in 1977. Murray migrated to Australia in 1989.

Murray was applauded by some as an intelligent and thoughtful debater in the Senate. Others believe that he acted against the wishes of his party's members in voting for the Goods and Services Tax bills in 1999, a stance which caused an irreparable party-room rift, leading to terminal loss of electoral support.

Murray pushed for greater transparency in government contracting activities by obtaining Senate support for a motion that required federal government ministers to indicate what clauses in contracts are confidential and to then justify the need for confidentiality. The impact of the Senate order resulted in a complex process to identify confidential information in the procurement process. The government issued guidance, updated in 2007, to provide further clarity, whereby tenderers must identify any information they consider is confidential and government procurement officers must assess such claims against four criteria. The legalistic and subjective nature of the criteria and the intrinsic complexity of the process sets the scene for inaccurate application of the test and inconsistent reporting by government agencies. The government's auditor does not report on the number of contracts requested by parliament that contain confidentiality provisions. The parliament has, and always has had, a legal right of access to government contracts.

In 2000 Senator Andrew Murray was part of a bid for a child migrant inquiry in Australia. He united with Opposition Leader, Kim Beazley, in obtaining support for a full Parliamentary inqurity in the issues of child migrants to Australia.

He said, "It is right and just that grievances and issues raised by child migrants to Australia are heard. There is much that needs to be resolved.

It is a chapter in Australian history that must be revisited. It is crucial that all Australians be given an opportunity to know that has transpired in our history -- the good and the bad."

Tim Colebatch, writer for The Age, reported about Andrew Murray on February 14, 2001: ?...one of the finest minds in Federal Parliament... few people have had such influence on legislation from the cross benches, or play such as important role as a bridge between the Democrat idealists and the hardnosed Liberal and Labor apparatchiks.?

Andrew Murray did not seek re-election at the 2007 federal election and retired at the expiration of his term on 30 June 2008.

Andrew is the Australian Democrats spokesperson for Accountability, Electoral Matters, Taxation, Finance & Corporate Affairs, and Workplace Relations. He is married with two grown children.

ContributorsCreated : 2009-03-02 09:00:27 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-03-02 10:16:51 /

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
14250	ALLEN, Alfred	1887	ENG,	1899 : - Unknown -	CAN	Catholic Emigration Society
15360	ALLEN, John	1863	ENG,	1872 : - Unknown -	CAN	Maria Rye
15359	ALLISON, James	1861	ENG,	1872 : - Unknown -	CAN	Maria Rye
2756	ALLNUTT, Francis Benjamin	1876	ENG, KEN, Bromley	Mar 1887 : - Unknown -	CAN	Liverpool Sheltering Home	14Germain
5749	ANDREWS, William		ENG,	Aug 1875 : - Unknown -	CAN	Louisa Birt
8730	BAILEY, Arthur William	1903	ENG,	1910 : - Unknown -	CAN	Barnardos
22722	BAIN, Gertrude	1922	SCT, , Aberdeen	Apr 1946 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
5724	BAKER, Charles	1870	ENG,	Aug 1875 : - Unknown -	CAN	Louisa Birt
14354	BAKER, Emma	1886	ENG,	1898 : - Unknown -	CAN	British Women\'s Emigration Association
15592	BAKER, Eva L		ENG,	- Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
15767	BAKER, Horace	1876	ENG,	1889 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
2655	BAKER, John	1915	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	1920 : - Unknown -	CAN	Middlemore
14442	BALDWIN, Walter	1881	ENG,	1895 : - Unknown -	CAN	Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)
22015	BAMSEY, Joseph Frank	1892	ENG, , Devon	- Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18472	BARNES, Alfred	1870	ENG,	1885 : - Unknown -	CAN
18497	BARNES, Clarence George	1915	ENG,	1930 : - Unknown -	CAN
18519	BARNES, F G	1915	ENG,	1930 : - Unknown -	CAN
18703	BARNES, Henry	1867	ENG,	1881 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18705	BARNES, Henry	1899	ENG,	1899 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18707	BARNES, Herbert Leonard	1882	ENG,	1897 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18726	BARNES, Joseph	1878	ENG,	1893 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18737	BARNES, Matilda	1869	ENG,	1884 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18762	BARNES, Sarah Ann	1872	ENG,	1882 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18811	BARNES, William Henry	1894	ENG,	1909 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19000	BARNETT, Agnes	1853	ENG,	1871 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19003	BARNETT, Alfred	1890	ENG,	1900 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19007	BARNETT, Archibald	1894	ENG,	1908 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19016	BARNETT, Henry	1898	ENG,	1907 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19018	BARNETT, Lilian	1896	ENG,	1907 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
19020	BARNETT, Rosina	1899	ENG,	1907 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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