Agency:
Duncan Kerr
Agency Number:
Start Date:
26 Feb 1952
Description:
Duncan Kerr, son of Duncan and Gertrude Colquhoun-Kerr, was born in Hobart and attended Claremont Primary and High Schools. He graduated from the University of Tasmania with both a Law degree and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work. He began his practice as a lawyer in 1980, working nationally and internationally as a barrister and solicitor; this included time with the Tasmanian State Government in the Solicitor-General's Department, Dean at the Faculty of Law in Papua New Guinea and Principal Solicitor in the Aboriginal Legal Service in New South Wales.;;Duncan Kerr stood unsuccessfully for the Federal seat of Braddon in 1977. Ten years later, in 1987, he contested the Federal seat of Denison which he won for the Australian Labor Party. He served as Minister for Justice between 1993 and 1996 and as Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs from December 2007 to December 2009. He retired from politics in July 2010 and returned to full time legal practice. In 2004 he had been appointed Senior Counsel and in 2012 became a Federal Court Judge;;Duncan Kerr is also an author of several books on law and politics.;;
Information Sources:
NS6228/1/17
Functions Performed:
Government and politics
Series Created By Agency:
NS6228 Subject Files | 01 Jan 1960 | 31 Dec 2010 |
NS6227 General Files | 01 Jan 1969 | 31 Dec 1976 |
NS6230 Photographs | 01 Jan 1974 | 24 Nov 2007 |
NS5684 Campaign Records | 01 Jan 1977 | 31 Dec 2007 |
NS6223 Diaries | 01 Jan 1987 | 31 Dec 1992 |
NS6229 Ephemera | 01 Jan 1987 | 31 Dec 2010 |
NS6234 Videos of Electoral Advertisements | 01 Jan 1987 | 12 Oct 2001 |
NS6218 Media Releases | 01 Jun 1987 | 23 Jun 2010 |
NS6225 Speeches | 01 Jan 1989 | 16 Jul 2010 |
NS6224 Personal Journals | 29 Jan 1989 | 04 Jun 1992 |
NS5667 Records of Constituent Work | 01 Jun 1993 | 31 Dec 2007 |
NS6226 Minutes of Meetings of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, Tasmania | 13 Nov 1998 | 04 Dec 2000 |