Michael Sukkar 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.