Andrew Wilkie
Politician
1961 –
Who is Andrew Wilkie?
Andrew Damien Wilkie is an Australian politician and independent federal member for Denison. He was formerly an army officer and then intelligence analyst.
In 2003 Wilkie resigned from his position in the Office of National Assessments, an Australian intelligence agency, over concerns that intelligence was being exaggerated for political purposes in making the case for Australia's contribution to the 2003 invasion of Iraq under the Howard government.
Since then he has been active in Australian politics. He was a Greens candidate for both the federal Division of Bennelong in the 2004 federal election and for the Senate in Tasmania at the 2007 federal election. In 2010 he stood as an independent candidate for the state seat of Denison at the Tasmanian state election, narrowly missing out on the final vacancy. Later in the year, again as an independent candidate, he ran for the federal seat of Denison at the federal election and won. He finished third on first preferences but was able to win the seat after the distribution of preferences
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- Born
- Nov 8, 1961
Tamworth - Nationality
- Australia
- Education
- Royal Military College, Duntroon
- Employment
- Australian Office of National Assessments
( - 2003)
- Australian Office of National Assessments
- Lived in
- Tamworth
- Tasmania
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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