Elected Federal Member for Barton March 1996
Appointed Shadow Attorney General October 1998 to December 2003
Appointed Shadow Minister for Workplace Relations November 2001 to July 2003
Appointed Shadow Minister for Justice & Community Security July 2003 to December 2003
Appointed Shadow Minister for Homeland Security December 2003 to July 2005
Appointed Shadow Minister for Defence October 2004 to December 2006
Appointed Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs December 2006
Sworn in as Attorney-General December 2007
Deputy Chair Joint Standing Committee on Treaties;
Deputy Chair House of Representatives Legal and Constitutional Committee;
Secretary Caucus Committee on Living Standards Employment and Economic Development;
Executive Member Parliamentary Group of Amnesty International.
Deputy Leader of the Opposition's representative on the Privileges Committee;
Deputy Chair of the Joint Select Committee examining bills to establish a Republic;
1980-82 Associate to the Hon. Justice Philip Evatt - Federal Court of Australia
1982-88 Solicitor - Turner Freeman Solicitors
1988-96 Partner - Turner Freeman Solicitors specialising in labour and sporting law.
Bachelor of Arts - University of New South Wales
Bachelor of Law - University of New South Wales
Master of Law - University of Sydney
Connells Point Primary School
Blakehurst High School (School Captain 1975)
"Sections 45D and 45E of the Trade Practices Act 1974: Re-Born or Misconceived?" - Australian Bar Review Vol 16, No. 2, 1997;
"Selective Work Bans: No Work No Pay Revisited" R.B. McClelland and Jeff Shaw QC - Australian Bar Review Vol.2 No.3 1986
"New Dimensions of Law Governing Termination of Employment", R.B.McClelland with Jeff Shaw QC and MJ Waldron, - Australian Journal of Labour Law, Vol 1 No. 1, 1988;
"Moore V Doyle A Legend Larger than Life" - Commentary on Sharpe V Goodhew, Australian Journal of Labor Law Vol 4 1989.
CCH Australian Labor Law Reporter - Commentary on Secondary Boycotts.
Butterworths Industrial Law Service - Commentary on Part IX of the Workplace Relations Act 1986.
"Does Australia Remain committed to the ILO - the Waterfront Dispute" Polemic - Sydney University - Autumn 1998
"The Democratic Control of Trade Unions - the Impact of Federal Legislation" - Masters Thesis;
"Overcoming the Obstacles to a Republic" The Australian Republic the Case for Yes (John Uhr editor) Federation Press 1999
"Productive Partnerships through Enterprise Bargaining" Partnership at Work - Labor Essays 2003 Pluto Press 2003
Born: 26 January 1958
Married: Wife Michelle
Children: Three daughters and a son
Australian history, sport generally but in particular Rugby League, surfing and sailing
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