Kim Carr

Kim Carr

Kim John Carr (born 2 July 1955) is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Victoria since 1993, representing the Labor Party. He was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard Governments.Carr is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, and before entering politics worked as a schoolteacher and political staffer. He was appointed to the Senate in 1993, filling a casual vacancy, and was made a member of the shadow ministry after Labor's defeat at the 1996 election. Carr held a variety of portfolios in the Labor governments between 2007 and 2013. He was considered a leader of the Labor Left faction in Victoria until the Industrial Left formed in 2017 comprising nearly all of Carr's union allies. He is currently the most senior senator and thus father of the senate, assuming the title in 2019.

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