Everything about Petro Georgiou totally explained
Petro Georgiou (born
30 November 1947),
Australian politician, has been a
Liberal member of the
Australian House of Representatives since November 1994, representing the
Division of Kooyong,
Victoria. He was born in
Kerkyra,
Greece, and was educated at
Melbourne University.
Georgiou was a senior tutor in politics at
La Trobe University 1970-73, Senior Adviser to Prime Minister
Malcolm Fraser 1975-79, Secretary of the Ethnic Television Review Panel 1979-80, Director of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs 1980-85, Senior Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition,
Andrew Peacock, 1985, Director of the Victorian Liberal Policy Unit 1985-89 and State Director of the Victorian Liberal Party 1989-94.
In 2005, Georgiou was one of a small number of Liberal parliamentarians who expressed disagreement with the government's policy of
mandatory detention for asylum seekers. He began speaking out against the policy in June and began drafting a
private member's bill aimed at softening the policy. On
June 17, Prime Minister
John Howard announced a shift in that policy, allowing families in detention with children to enter the community and ensuring that long-term detainees would have their cases reviewed regularly. Georgiou was given a large amount of credit for the policy change.
On
11 August 2006, Georgiou joined
Russell Broadbent and
Judi Moylan in crossing the floor to vote against the
Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill, that would force all asylum seekers to be processed offshore.
Preselection Challenge
In March 2006,
Joshua Frydenberg, an
investment banker and former political adviser, made known his intention to challenge Georgiou for his seat in an internal Liberal Party preselection. This followed another prominent Liberal former Victorian President
Michael Kroger's decision not to contest the seat. Liberal Deputy Leader
Peter Costello endorsed Georgiou and Kroger is believed to have supported him.
In the days leading to the preselection convention, Queensland frontbenchers
Ian Macfarlane,
Peter Dutton and
Santo Santoro backed
Frydenburg's credentials, to the dismay of former
Premier Jeff Kennett.
The preselection was held at
Trinity Grammar School on
23 April,
2006.
Georgiou retained selection by receiving 62 of the 85 Liberal Party delegates' votes, with challenger Frydenberg receiving 22 votes and a third candidate, Alistair Armstrong, receiving one vote.
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