Nick Xenophon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nick Xenophon
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 29, 1959(1959-01-29)
Age	65
Birthplace	Adelaide
Country	Australia
Birth City	South Australia
Horoscope	Capricorn

Nick Xenophon Biography

Nick Xenophon is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 29, 1959 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Independent politician who was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council between 1997 and 2007. He was elected to the Australian Senate in 2007.

He served as a member of an Australian legislative board, just like fellow politician Like fellow politician Jenny Gardiner, he served on an Australian legislative council..

Xenophon attended Prince Alfred College, and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Adelaide. From 1976 until 1981, he was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia and the Young Liberals. In his first year, Xenophon was elected on the Adelaide University Liberal Club ticket to On Dit student magazine. At the end of his eighteen-month term, Xenophon wrote as a whistleblower in On Dit that the Young Liberals had rigged the vote in order to secure the unlikely victory of their editing team.

In 1982 and 1983, Xenophon worked as a lawyer in the private practice of Jacob van Dissel. In 1984, van Dissel gave Xenophon the personal injury part of his practice, enabling Xenophon to become principal of his new firm, Xenophon & Co. Lawyers. The firm continues and deals primarily with workers compensation and personal injury claims on a no-win-no-fee basis.

He was born in Adelaide, South Australia.

Nick Xenophon Net Worth

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

He graduated from the University of Adelaide in law and established Xenophon & Co., a South Australian law practice.

He was a member of the “No Pokies South Australian Council ticket and campaigned against gambling.

Nicholas Xenophon (né Xenophou; 29 January 1959) is an Australian politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 2008 to 2017. He was the leader of two political parties: Nick Xenophon Team federally, and Nick Xenophon’s SA- BEST in South Australia. In October 2017, Xenophon resigned from the Australian Senate to contest a seat in the House of Assembly at the 2018 South Australian state election. From 1997 to 2007, he was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council, serving as an independent on a No Pokies policy platform. When the Nick Xenophon Team changed its name to Centre Alliance, Xenophon himself ceased to be directly involved with the party.

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Who is Nick Xenophon Dating?

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At the 1997 state election, Xenophon stood for the South Australian Legislative Council under an Independent No Pokies ticket, advocating the reduction and abolition of poker machines (colloquially known as “pokies”). He received a vote of 2.86 percent, a statewide total of 25,630 votes – much less than the 8.33 per cent needed to be elected in his own right – but by receiving a large number of preferences first from microparties and then from Grey Power, he went from a quota of 0.34 to 1.08 and was therefore elected. This made Xenophon the first independent elected to the Legislative Council in 60 years.

Facts & Trivia

Nick Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Nick Xenophon celebrates birthday on January 29 of every year.

At the 2006 state election, he ran an aggressive campaign and attracted considerable publicity through a range of imaginative stunts, including riding a model locomotive “gravy train” outside Parliament House to protest MPs’ superannuation entitlements, parading along Rundle Mall wearing a sandwich board to advertise his campaign, and bringing a small goat to Parliament urging voters not to “kid around” with their vote. Despite media speculation that he would struggle to be re-elected due to the major parties preferencing against him, he attracted sufficient funding and volunteers to staff most state booths on polling day. He received 190,958 first preferences or 20.51 per cent of the total vote, enough to not only be re-elected himself, but also to elect the second No Pokies candidate, Ann Bressington. His total was 5.46 per cent less than the Liberal Party, and he outpolled the Liberals in some booths, including the electoral district of Enfield. With the Labor government needing four non-Labor upper house members to pass legislation, No Pokies on two seats shared the balance of power with Family First on two seats, the Democrats on one seat, with the SA Greens winning their first seat.

What happened to Nick Xenophon?

On 6 October 2017, Xenophon announced that he would resign in order to stand for the Parliament of South Australia at the 2018 South Australian general election. On 31 October 2017, Xenophon resigned from the Senate, and was replaced by his party’s senior advisor Rex Patrick.

Is Nick Xenophon left or right?

Centre Alliance, formerly known as the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT), is a centrist political party in Australia based in the state of South Australia. It currently has one representative in the Parliament, namely Rebekha Sharkie in the House of Representatives.

What is the meaning of Xenophon?

a general officer of the highest rank. historian, historiographer.

How old is Nick Xenophon?

63 years (January 29, 1959)

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