The Hon Tony Burke MP, Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Minister for Cyber Security, Minister for the Arts, will Address the National Press Club on “The Work of managing the migration program: Who arrives, who stays, who leaves”.

BIO:

Tony Burke is the Member for Watson, Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Minister for Cyber Security, Minister for the Arts and Leader of the House of Representatives.

Tony has been a member of the Labor frontbench both in Government and in Opposition since entering Federal Parliament in 2004.

When Tony took over the immigration portfolio in 2013, unauthorised boat arrivals were at an all-time high. The policy changes he oversaw delivered a 90 per cent reduction in the number of people putting their lives at risk on boats. He also ensured that all unaccompanied minors in immigration detention were released.

As Minister for the arts he established Australia’s Cultural Policy: Revive establishing Creative Australia and Australian content quotas for streamers. He has now started the work on its successor.

Previously as Employment and Workplace Relations Minister, Tony introduced 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave, passed the Secure Jobs, Better Pay laws and  the Closing Loopholes laws to improve wages, conditions and safety for workers.

Previously as Environment Minister in the Gillard Government, Tony established the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, placed Tasmania’s forests on the World Heritage list and made the second-largest conservation decision in the history of the planet by protecting our oceans.

As Manager of Opposition Business and now as Leader of the House, Tony has been running Labor’s parliamentary tactics in the House of Representatives for 13 years.