Mr Frank McGuire

Former Member Member of Victorian Parliament between 2011 and 2022
Frank McGuire

Party represented

Australian Labor Party

Electorate

Broadmeadows (18 February 2011 - 25 November 2022) By-election, Elected MLA for Broadmeadows February 2011 (by-election).

*The start date for Members elected after 1900 is the date they were elected. The start date for pre-1900 Members is the date they were sworn in.

Positions

Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Innovation (1 November 2016 - 18 December 2018)

Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Scrutiny of Government (1 February 2012 - 31 December 2014)

Parliamentary Secretary for Crime Prevention (19 December 2018 - 25 November 2022)

Parliamentary Secretary for Medical Research (22 December 2014 - 25 November 2022)

Committee Memberships

Member Legislative Assembly Privileges Committee (4 February 2019 - 1 November 2022)

Member Family and Community Development Committee (5 May 2011 - 19 February 2014)

Speech

Inaugural speech

Parliament | 2 March 2011

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Award(s)

<p>Walkley Award for Best Investigative Report, ABC's Four Corners 1993. Best Current Affairs Report, Nine Network's Sunday 2007. Australian Human Rights Media Award, ABC's 7.30 Report 1995. Melbourne's representative for the International Metropolis Award for Social Innovation 2011.</p><p>Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow, 2003; Hume City Council Award, 2010.</p>

Career

Journalist

Journalism: News- Reporter, Melbourne Herald 1976-1984; Reporter, Producer, Dep Chief-of-Staff, Ten News 1986-1990. Current Affairs- Investigative and Political Reporter, ‘7.30 Report’ 1990-91. ‘Four Corners’ 1992-93. National 7.30 Report Victorian Correspondent 1994-95. Business: Co-founder Television and Radio Production Company 1996; Managing Partner, Communications Company 2002-05; Director, Media and Business Consultancy; Director, Social Innovation Company. Politics: Media Adviser, Victorian Government 1984-85; Parliamentary Strategist, Australian Democrats 2001-2002.

Hume Social Justice and Safe City Taskforce (Chairman) since 2004; Hume Global Learning Village Board since 2004.

Education

Scholarship 1970 (Christian Brothers' College St. Kilda). Cadetship 1976 (Melbourne Herald). Fellow 1998 (Leadership Victoria). MComm(Jour) 2013 (RMIT). 2014 (AICD).

Reference(s)

References: Victorian Parliamentary Handbook. Personal information.