Mathias Cormann

Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann (born 20 September 1970) is an Australian politician. He is a Liberal Party of Australia Senator for Western Australia, having been chosen by the Parliament of Western Australia on 19 June 2007 to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Ian Campbell. On 22 September 2008 he was appointed Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Health Administration. Born in Eupen, Belgium, Cormann migrated to Perth, Wes... more

Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann (born 20 September 1970) is an Australian politician. He is a Liberal Party of Australia Senator for Western Australia, having been chosen by the Parliament of Western Australia on 19 June 2007 to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Ian Campbell. On 22 September 2008 he was appointed Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Health Administration. Born in Eupen, Belgium, Cormann migrated to Perth, Western Australia in 1996. He earned a Belgian law degree from the Flemish Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and it was not until he was 23, when he studied Law at the University of East Anglia in England, that he actually first learnt how to speak English. His degree not recognised in Australia, took a job as a gardener at Presbyterian Ladies' College. He joined the Liberal Party in Western Australia and took on a job as ministerial chief-of-staff, then senior adviser to then-Premier of Western Australia, Richard Court. He then moved to federal... less