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Kevin James Andrews (born 10 November 1955) is an Australian politician and member of the Liberal Party of Australia, first elected to the House of Representatives seat of Menzies at the 1991 by-election. He was Minister for Social Services in the Abbott Government from 18 September 2013 until 23 December 2014, when he was appointed Minister for Defence after a cabinet reshuffle, serving until the 2015 ascension of Malcolm Turnbull. In the Howard Government, Andrews served as Minister for Ageing from 26 November 2001 to 7 October 2003, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations from 7 October 2003 to 30 January 2007 during which time he implemented the controversial WorkChoices labour market reforms, and Minister for Immigration and Citizenship from there on until the defeat of the incumbent government at the November 2007 election. He then served in the Abbott Shadow Cabinet portfolio of Families, Housing and Human Services. Andrews was dropped from the new Turnbull Ministry upon the ascension of the Turnbull Government and is on the government backbench presently. ==Early life== Andrews was born on 9 November 1955 in Sale, Victoria, and was educated at Melbourne University where he lived at Newman College. He completed a Master of Laws (LLM) at Monash University and practised as a barrister. He was co-ordinator of Continuing Legal Education for the Law Institute of Victoria from 1981 to 1983 and an associate to Sir James Gobbo, Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, from 1983 to 1985. While practising law he was involved with the St Vincent's Bioethics Centre, the Mercy Hospital for Women, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Lincoln School of Health Sciences. He was also a board member of Caritas Christi Hospice.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin Andrews (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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