Senator Kim Carr

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Minister for Innovation Industry Science and Research

March 19, 2008

"Science Serving Society"

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Kim Carr has been a Labor Senator for Victoria since 1993.

He was appointed as Shadow Minister for Industry, Innovation, Science and Research in December 2006, a position he previously held in 2003/4. The combination of these policy areas under a single portfolio reflects the Labor Party’s commitment to growing vibrant, R&D intensive, Australian enterprises.

Kim has previously served as Shadow Minister for Housing, Urban Development, Local Government and Territories; Shadow Minister for Open Government and Public Administration, Indigenous Affairs and Reconciliation, and the Arts; as Labor’s Parliamentary Secretary and Senate Spokesperson for Education; as well as Labor Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate.

His policy interests include innovation, industry, science, research, education, and cultural heritage.

Kim graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BA (Hons), MA, and Dip Ed, and taught in secondary schools in Melbourne's northern suburbs for over ten years before becoming a policy advisor to the Victorian State Government on conservation, education, and Commonwealth/State relations.

He is married, and has three daughters and one son.