Michael Danby

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Danby
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Feb 16, 1955(1955-02-16)
Age	69
Birthplace	Melbourne
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Aquarius

Michael Danby Biography

Michael Danby is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on February 16, 1955 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Michael David Danby, born 16 February 1955, is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Melbourne Ports in Victoria. From March 2013 to September 2013, Danby was briefly Parliamentary Secretary for the Arts.

From 1998 to 2007, Danby was the only Jewish member in the Australian Parliament. Mark Dreyfus was also elected from the Labor Party. In 2010, Josh Frydenberg, a Liberal, was elected to the Australian Parliament. He has spoken out in support of Israel many times. Danby is a supporter of a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine issue. He stated that he was a strong supporter for Israel in May 2011. He is also a strong advocate for peace in the region and a two-state solution. I am open to dialogue with friends from Israel whenever I can.

In 2005 Danby was critical of a book by a Sydney Jewish atheist journalist, Antony Loewenstein, about the Australian Jewish community and its attitudes to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In a letter to the Australian Jewish News, Danby called on the book’s publisher, Melbourne University Press, to “drop this whole disgusting project.” He also called on the Jewish community to boycott the book. “I urge the Australian Jewish community, and particularly the Australian Jewish News, to treat it with dignified silence,” he said.

In February 2008 he and his longtime partner, barrister Amanda Mendes da Costa, were married at Parliament House, Canberra, the first Jewish wedding held in the building.

Danby was the Labor candidate in the safe Liberal seat Goldstein in 1990 against Dr David Kemp. He won the Labor Party preselection contest for the right to contest Melbourne Ports. The sitting member, Clyde Holding was retiring. He defeated Tim Pallas who would become the Victorian State Treasurer. In 1998, he was elected with 55 percent of votes. He was reelected in 2004 with slightly smaller majorities. In 2007 he gained a 3% two- candidate-preferred (TCP) swing to Labor and in 2010 secured a further 1% TCP swing. Danby was vocal in his criticisms of Labor Party’s handling the 2010 election and attacked the focus on Sydney that is heavily Western.

Michael Danby Net Worth

Michael Danby is one of the richest Politician from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Danby 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Danby managed Halmaag Art Galleries, Malvern, from 1979 to 1983. From 1986 to 1993, he was the Assistant Private Secretary to Barry Cohen. He was also a minister in the Hawke government from 1983 to 1984. He was the senior vice- president for the International Youth Conference, Kingston, Jamaica in 1985. He served as a ministerial advisor to Alan Griffiths (the Industry Minister in the Keating government), 1993-1994. He was an industrial officer for the Shop Distributive and All Allied Employees Association 1994-1996.

Danby was born in Melbourne, and he lives in Elwood in his electorate. Danby was educated at Mount Scopus Memorial College. He then enrolled at Melbourne University for a Bachelor of Arts, but he left before completing his degree. He was the President of both the Melbourne University Student Union and the Australasian Union for Jewish Students. He was an Australian Army Reserve officer-cadet in the Officer Cadet Training Unit (3 Training Group) based at Albert Park Reserve, and Puckapunyal, from 1980 to 1983.

Danby was a member of the Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters from 1998 until 2010, and was Deputy Chair in 2006. He used this position to run a high-profile campaign against the Howard Government’s changes to Australian electoral law, which he argued restricted the ability of voters, particularly new voters, to enrol and vote. In an article in 2005, he wrote: “For 150 years Australia has been a world leader in progressive electoral reform… As a result Australia has one of the most open and accessible electoral systems in the world, and also a system with the highest reputation for integrity and transparency. Now, for the first time in living memory, an Australian government is going to wind the process back, for no good reason other than its own partisan advantage. They are going to make it more difficult for Australians to enrol and to vote.” Soon after the 2010 Federal Election Danby drew attention to the fact that for various reasons 1.4 million eligible Australians had not voted, and criticised the Government for not having acted during its previous term to ensure greater voter turn-out.

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In July 2009 in his role as Chair of the Parliamentary Group for Tibet, Danby led the first-ever delegation of Australian MPs and Senators to Dharamshala, India, the base of the Central Tibetan Administration. The group met with Dalai Lama, and other senior lamas, as well as numerous government Ministers. Danby also gave a speech at the celebrations for the Dalai Lama’s 74th birthday entitled ‘Let freedom reign in Tibet’. The Chinese Government reacted angrily to the delegation’s visit, saying the visit constituted interference in China’s internal affairs.

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In September and October 2010 Danby wrote a number of articles critical of Australian National University academic Hugh White’s Quarterly Essay entitled “Power Shift: Australia’s Future between Washington and Beijing”. In an article published in the The Wall Street Journal Asia, Danby was highly critical of White’s contention that Australia should support US military evacuation of the South China Sea, and other possible zones of conflict with China. In another article in The Australian (co-authored with foreign affairs experts Carl Ungerer and Peter Khalil), Danby warned against a ‘Munich Moment’ which would result if Australia followed White’s advice and decided that the price of China’s growing power was to cease “lecturing China about dissidents, Tibet or religious freedom”. White responded to these articles in both The Australian and the Australian Financial Review. However it seems Danby had the last word in the debate, publishing another article in the Australian Financial Review, which attacked White’s thesis as advocating “unprincipled appeasement”. Danby also accused White of holding ‘cold-blooded, Kissingerian views’, ‘treating China and the United States as if they were no more than a pair of traditional great-power rivals competing for territory or markets, like the Habsburg and Ottoman empires’. In a parliamentary speech in October 2010 Danby pointed to calls for reform from within the highest echelons of the Chinese Communist Party as reason not to follow White’s approach.