Hon. Michael Sukkar MP was first elected to the Australian Parliament in 2013 as the Member for Deakin.
In 2022 he was sworn in as the Shadow Minister for Social Services; Shadow Minister for the
National Disability Insurance Scheme; Shadow Minister for Housing and Shadow Minister for
Homelessness, having previously served as the Assistant Treasurer; Minister for Housing and
Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing in 2020; Minister for Housing and
Assistant Treasurer in 2019 and Assistant Minister to the Treasurer in 2017.
Michael has a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce from Deakin University and a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne.
Prior to entering the Parliament, Michael spent seven years working as a lawyer with the
firm Ashurst Australia (then known as Blake Dawson Waldron), where he was a Senior Associate.
In this role, he advised many of Australia's most successful individuals and largest corporate
groups. Before then he worked as a Senior Consultant with accounting firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers where he also specialised in tax.
Michael has previously served on a number of parliamentary committees, including as Chair of
the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence & Security, as well as Chair of Parliamentary Joint committee on Corporations and Financial Services.
Michael is married to Anna and they have two children.
Shadow Minister for Housing, Hon. Michael Sukkar MP, Closing Address.