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Mar 12, 1943 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 81 years old
Australian politician
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About Philip Ruddock
- Philip Maxwell Ruddock (born 12 March 1943 in Canberra) is an Australian politician who is currently mayor of Hornsby Shire.
- He previously was a Liberal member of the House of Representatives from 1973 to 2016.
- First elected in a 1973 by-election, by the time of his retirement he was the last parliamentary survivor of the Whitlam and Fraser Governments.
- He was both the Father of the House and the Father of the Parliament from 1998 to his retirement.
- He is the second longest-serving parliamentarian in the history of the Australian Parliament (only Billy Hughes served longer).
- Ruddock served continuously in federal cabinet during the Howard Government, as Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs from 1996 to 2003, and then Attorney-General from 2003 to 2007.
- He is also the Vice Chair of the Global Panel Foundation Australasia—with Sir Donald Charles McKinnon as Chair.
