Andrew Bragg

Andrew James Bragg (born 11 July 1984)[1] is an Australian politician who was elected as a Senator for New South Wales at the 2019 federal election. He is a member of the Liberal Party.[2]

Senator

Andrew Bragg
Senator for New South Wales
Assumed office
1 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1984-07-11) 11 July 1984
Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Political partyLiberal
OccupationAccountant, manager

Early life

Bragg was born in Melbourne[1] and grew up in Shepparton, Victoria.[3] He played for the Congupna Football Club.[4] He attended local Catholic schools before going on to study accounting at the Australian National University.[3] Bragg's father and three of his grandparents were born in the United Kingdom, and he was a British citizen by descent until renouncing it in December 2017.[1]

Career

Bragg is a trained accountant who worked in internal audit at Ernst & Young.[5]

He then served seven years at the Financial Services Council first in superannuation and asset management policy and later as head of policy.[3]

From 2014-2016, Bragg served as Director of Policy & Global Markets at the Financial Services Council. He worked to establish two key pieces of industry self-regulation: a superannuation governance standard and the Trowbridge Review & the inaugural Life Insurance Consumer Code of Practice.[6][7]

In November 2016 he became the policy director of the Menzies Research Centre, a Liberal Party think tank.[8] He became the executive director of the Business Council of Australia in August 2017.[9]

During the period he worked for the Financial Services Council, Bragg completed a Master of Financial Regulation from Macquarie University.[10]

Politics

Prior to the 2016 federal election, Bragg was an unsuccessful Liberal preselection candidate for both the Senate ticket in New South Wales and the Division of Murray in Victoria.[3][4]

In April 2017, following the resignation of Tony Nutt, Bragg was appointed as the acting federal director of the Liberal Party. He was considered an ally of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. However, he was not chosen to fill the position permanently.[3] Later in the year, he was the national director of the Liberals & Nationals for Yes campaign during the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.[5]

Bragg was a candidate for Liberal preselection at the 2018 Wentworth by-election, caused by Turnbull's retirement from parliament. He was considered the frontrunner for a period, but withdrew from the race due to concerns that the preselection of a male candidate would be poorly received. He stated that "the Liberal Party should preselect a woman and my withdrawal can pave the way".[11]

In 2018, Bragg won preselection on the Coalition's Senate ticket.[12] He was elected to the Senate at the 2019 federal election.[2]

Author

Bragg contributes to the The Australian Financial Review, The Daily Telegraph and The Australian and appears on the ABC and Sky News.[13] He is the author of Fit for Service (2017),[14] the essay "Scrap Iron for Japan" in Paul Ritchie's Forgotten People Updated (2018),[15] and Bad Egg: How to Fix Super (2020).[16]

Personal life

In March 2020 Bragg tested positive for coronavirus as part of a cluster of cases associated with a wedding.[17]

Bragg is a Grand Commander in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia's Order of Christ-loving. He was awarded the honour by Archbishop Makarios after assisting the archbishop to obtain Australian permanent residency. He is reportedly "the first non-Greek and non-Orthodox person to receive the highest honour that the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia can bestow".[18]

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References
  1. "Qualification checklist" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  2. "Senate Results". ABC News. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  3. Knott, Matthew (28 April 2017). "Andrew Bragg: Can an inexperienced 32-year-old save the Liberal Party?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  4. "Andrew Bragg seeks preselection in Murray". The Weekly Times. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  5. "Meet Andrew". NSW Liberals. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  6. "How the unions bullied the FSC and NXT against independent super fund directors". Australian Financial Review. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  7. "Bragg to depart FSC | Money Management". www.moneymanagement.com.au. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  8. "Andrew Bragg firms as Liberals' federal director". The Australian Financial Review. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  9. "Andrew Bragg". Connor Court Publishing. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  10. "Andrew Bragg". BenchTV. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  11. "Wentworth frontrunner Andrew Bragg pulls out, says Liberal Party must preselect woman". ABC News. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  12. "Surprise Liberal preselection result spells end of Jim Molan's Senate career". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 November 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  13. "Andrew Bragg". Q+A. 4 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  14. "9781925501377-Fit for Service: Meeting the demand of the As". Connor Court Publishing. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  15. "9781925826012-The Forgotten People: Updated -- Edited by Pau". Connor Court Publishing. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  16. Bragg, Andrew (2 June 2020). "Book extract: Bad Egg by Andrew Bragg". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  17. IllawarrMercury: Federal senator Andrew Bragg tests positive to coronavirus after attending wedding at Stanwell Tops venue, March 2020
  18. "Greek Orthodox Church leader's $6.5 million Sydney Harbour apartment". News.com.au. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
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