Julian McGauran (born 5 March 1957), Australian politician, is a member of the Australian Senate, representing the state of Victoria. Elected as a member of the National Party, he resigned from the Nationals and joined the Liberal Party of Australia in February 2006. His brother, Peter McGauran, was the National member for Gippsland until 2008, and was a Minister for Agriculture under the Howard government.
McGauran attended Xavier College in Kew...
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Julian McGauran (born 5 March 1957), Australian politician, is a member of the Australian Senate, representing the state of Victoria. Elected as a member of the National Party, he resigned from the Nationals and joined the Liberal Party of Australia in February 2006. His brother, Peter McGauran, was the National member for Gippsland until 2008, and was a Minister for Agriculture under the Howard government.
McGauran attended Xavier College in Kew Melbourne and Monash University before becoming an accountant and then a company director for the McGauran Group of Companies, and a board member of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry between 1986 and 1988. He was elected to the Melbourne City Council for three years between 1985 and 1988.
McGauran won National Party preselection for a Senate seat in the 1987 double-dissolution election, and was subsequently elected. He was defeated in 1990, but was re-elected in 1993, and has held his seat ever since. In 1999, McGauran was...
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