The Hon Dr David Alistair Kemp, MP
Born: 14 October 1941
Australian Citizen
Married with three Children
Tertiary
- Ph.D. (Yale) (distinction) 1975 (Political Science)
- Fulbright Scholar (Australian American Education Foundation) 1968 - 1971
- LL.B. (Melbourne) 1966
- B.A. (Honours, First Class) Melbourne 1964 (Political Science/History)
Prizes
- Hearn Exhibition in Jurisprudence (1965)
- Gyles Turner Prize (Australian History essay) (1964)
Secondary
- Dux (aeq) Scotch College, Hawthorn, 1959
Public Examinations
- Exhibition (aeq) in Economics (1959)
- Exhibition (aeq) in Latin (1959)
- General Exhibition (1959)
- Senior Government Scholarship (Third on State List, 1959)
- Minister for the Environment and Heritage
- Vice President of the Executive Council
- Member of the Expenditure Review Committee
- Member of the Sustainable Environment Committee
- Member of the Energy Committee
- Member of Federal Parliament for Goldstein (1990 - present)
- 1998-01
Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service
- 1997-98
Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service, Member of the Employment Committee of the Cabinet.
- 1996-97
Minister for Schools, Vocational Education and Training, Minister assisting the Minister for Finance for Privatisation and Minister assisting the Prime Minister in Public Service Matters. Member of the Legal Committee of the Cabinet. Member of the Employment Committee of Cabinet.
- 1994-96
Shadow Minister for Employment, Training and Family Services, Deputy Chair of the Coalition Policy Review Committee, Deputy Chair of the Expenditure Review Committee, member of the Shadow Cabinet, co-ordinator The Things That Matter.
- 1993-94
Shadow Minister for Science, Technology and Export Development, Shadow Minister assisting the Leader on Party Development, Chairman of the Industry, Structural Reform and Environment Management Group, Deputy Chairman of the Policy Review Committee, member of the Republic Strategy Committee, member of the Shadow Cabinet, member of Parliamentary Political Strategy Committee.
- 1990-93
Elected as Member of the House of Representatives for Goldstein, Shadow Minister for Education, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader on Science, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader on Transition to Government, member of Shadow Cabinet
- 1990-97
Member of the Australian National Commission for UNESCO
- 1979-90
Professor of Politics, Monash University, Australia
- 1975-79
Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne
- 1978
Visiting Fellow, Centre of International Studies, Princeton University, N.J., USA
- 1972-75
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne
- 1968-71
Overbrook Fellow, Department of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- 1967 (Temporary)
Lecturer, International Relations, University of Melbourne
- 1966
Tutor, Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne
- Dec 1987 - Dec 1988 (on leave)
Consultant acting as Director Strategy and State Director, Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division)
- 1983
Member of Committee of Review, Liberal Party of Australia (Valder Committee)
- 1981 (on leave)
Director of the Private Office of the Prime Minister, Canberra
- 1979-80
Member of the Liberal Party's Federal Platform Policy Review Subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Federal Policy
- 1975-76 (on leave)
Senior Adviser, Office of the Leader of the Opposition and (from Nov. 1975) Prime Minister
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Trustee of the Sir Robert Menzies Lecture Trust
- Australian Parliamentarians for UNICEF
- Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- Australian Parliamentary Group of Amnesty International
- Australian National Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
- Parliamentary International Friendship groups: United Kingdom, United States of America, Israel
- Inter-Parliamentary Council Against Anti-Semitism
- Australian Institute of Political Science
- Australasian Political Studies Association
- Australian Committee for Cultural Freedom
- H R Nicholls Society
- Society of the Modest Members
- Lyons Forum
- Centre for Independent Studies
- Patron of the Alfred Deakin Lecture Trust
- Australian Liberal Students Graduates Association
- Associate Dean, Faculty of Economics and Politics, 1986-87
- Chairman, Department of Politics, Monash University, 1982-84, 1987-88
- Professorial Representative, Monash University Council, 1985-89
- Member, Finance Committee, Monash University 1988-89
- Chairperson, Union Board, Monash University, 1984
- Chairman, Joint Orientation Committee, Monash University, 1982-83
- Member, Faculty Committee of Review of Master of Administration 1984
- Member Advisory Board, Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University 1982-89
- Chairman, Housing Committee, Monash University Council, 1985-89
- Member, Board of Studies, Graduate School of Management, Monash University, 1986-89
- Chairman, Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research, 1984, 1986-89
- Convenor, First Australian Summer Training Program in Quantitative Social Science Techniques, ACSPRI, 1985
- Social Science Data Archive Committee, Australian National University 1984, 1986-87
- Advisory panel, National Social Science Survey
- Member, Editorial Board of Politics (Journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association)
- Director (Victorian Chairman, 1983) Australian Institute of Political Science
- Assessor, Australian Research Grants Scheme
- The Politics of the Australian Economy 1982-89
- Politics of Policy 1980-89
- Politics and Political Behaviour in Australia 1982-84
- Politics and Markets 1979-80
- Political Power in Australia 1978
- Political Authority 1977
- Introduction to Political Science 1972-77
- Theory and Research in Political Science 1973-75
- International Relations 1968
- American Politics and Government 1967
- Comparative Politics 1967
- Member of Liberal Party since 1964 (Greythorn, Kew North, Brighton branches)
- Member, Federal Platform Review Working Group, 1997
- Member of the Liberal Party's 50th Anniversary Committee, 1993-94
- Director of Strategy and State Director (Victoria) (Consultancy) 1987-88
- Consultant to Federal Leadership Strategy Group 1987
- Member, Secretariat Strategy Group (Federal) 1986-87
- Member, Liberal Party Committee of Review (Valder Committee) 1983
- Member, Federal Platform and Policy Review Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Federal Policy 1977-80
- Member, Federal Campaign Strategy Committees, 1977, 1980, 1983
- Member, Philosophy Sub-Committee of Federal Executive 1976-78
- Assistant to the Policy Review Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Federal Policy 1974
- Committee member and State Council Delegate, Kew North Branch 1973-74
- Member, Education Policy Committee (Victoria) 1974
- President, State Council Delegate, Kooyong Electorate Committee Delegate 1967-68
- President, Melbourne University Liberal Club 1963-65
- A Founder and Trustee Alfred Deakin Lecture Trust
- Organizer/Participant in Liberal Discussion Groups:
- Deakin Group 1966-67
- Checkpoint Council 1972-74
- Deakin Society 1975-78
- Grapple 1974-77
- Member, Brighton Historical Society
- Member, Sandringham Football Club
- Member, Baden-Powell Society
- Member, Melbourne Cricket Club
- Member, Frankston Golf Club
- Member, National Trust
- Golf, tennis, opera, reading, family history
- Who's Who in Australia
- Debrett's Handbook of Australia and New Zealand
- Society and Electoral Behaviour in Australia, University of Queensland Press, 1978
- with D M White (eds.) Malcolm Fraser on Australia, Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1986
- Foundations for Australian Political Analysis: Politics and Authority, Melbourne Oxford University Press, 1988
- "Problems and Prospects" in P. Weller, G. Davis (eds) New Ideas, Better Government, Australian Fulbright Papers: 4, Allen & Unwin 1996, pp. 292-304
- "A Liberal Vision for the Next Century" in B. Costar (ed.) For Better or for Worse: The Federal Coalition, Melbourne Uni Press, 1994
- "The Government's Science and Technology Strategy: Beyond the Rhetoric", Search, v.25, June 1994
- "A National Strategy for Research and Development" in K.Aldred, K.Andrews, P.Filing (eds) The Heart of Liberalism, Albury Papers, 1994, pp 283-296
- "Liberalism and the March of Democracy" Quadrant December 1993 pp. 36-43
- "Charles Denton Kemp CBE, 1911-1993", Quadrant, v.37 September 1993
- "Authority and Public Policy: Solving the Political Problem", in An Heretical Heir of the Enlightenment: Politics, Policy and Science in the Work of Charles E. Lindblom, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1993
- "Is the science system working?" with R.G. Gregory and Peter Laver in Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, no.68 March 1992
- "Fightback and education: Response to the critics", with Ross Parish and Laurie Short in Education Monitor, v.3, September 1992
- "Our Heritage of Political and Civil Liberties" in J Ramsay (ed.) Our Heritage and Australia's Future, Schwartz & Wilkinson, 1991 pp. 23-38
- "The Limits of Government" in C.Ulyatt (ed.) The Good Fight: Essays in Honour of Austin Stewart Holmes (1924-1986), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989, pp.38-47
- "Political Behaviour" in J S Western, J Najman (eds.) A Sociology of Australian Society: Introductory Readings, Melbourne, Macmillan 1988, pp. 328-376.
- "Liberalism and Conservatism in Australia 1944-1985" in B Head, J Walter (eds.) Intellectual Movements and Australian Society Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1988, pp. 322-362.
- "The Future of the Conservative Parties" Journal for Students of Year 12 Politics Vol. 16, No. 2 1988 pp. 8-16.
- "Trade Unions and Liberty" in J O Stone (ed.) Trade Union Reform, 1987 pp. 15-22.
- "Is Australia Governed Effectively?" in Future Perspectives: A Forum for Young Australians: proceedings of the Third National Forum of the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Trust for Young Australians May 24-30, 1987 pp. 23-41.
- "Partisan Polarization in the Australian Electorate 1974-75" The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1986, pp. 217-227
- "Comments on Papers by Macintyre and Bacchi" in D Rawson (ed.) Blast, Budge or Bypass: Towards a Social Democratic Australia, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1986, pp. 167-175.
- "The Recent Evolution of Central Policy Control Mechanisms in Parliamentary Systems", International Political Science Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1986, pp. 56-66.
- "Education and Values" The End of Centralised Schooling?" Institute of Public Affairs Review, Vol. 40, No. 2, Winter 1986, pp. 52-55.
- "The Liberal Party and the Middle Ground", Current Affairs Bulletin (University of Sydney), Vol. 63, No. 4, September 1986, pp. 12-19.
- "Priorities for Liberalism", The Sir Robert Menzies Lecture, 20 February, 1986, reprinted in Quadrant, Vol. 30, No. 5, May 1986, pp. 15-22.
- "Social Change and Political Cleavages in Australia" in D Woodward, A Parkin, J Summers (eds.) Government, Politics and Power in Australia: An Introductory Reader, Third Ed., Longman Cheshire: Sydney, 1985, pp. 197-207 (reprint).
- "Australian Political Science - Past and Present Directions". Politics Vol. 20, No. 2 November 1985, pp. 103-105.
- "Comment on 'The Federal Budget'" How Much Difference do Elections make?" The Australian Economic Review. 71: Spring 1985: p. 50.
- "Why Governments Do Not Plan Effectively", Institute of Public Affairs Review Vol. 38, No. 1 Autumn 1984 pp. 31-35.
- "Freedom and the Achievements of Western Civilization" Quadrant Vol. XXVIII, No. 12, Dec. 1984 pp. 54-59.
- "The Liberal Party and the Historical Moment", in G Brandis, T Harley, D Markwell (eds.) Liberals Face the Future Melbourne: Oxford Uni Press, 1984, pp. 37-48.
- "The National Economic Summit: Authority, Persuasion and Exchange; The Economic Record Vol. 59, No. 166, Sept. 1983, pp. 209-19.
- "Political Parties and Australian Culture" in P Coleman, L Shrubb, V Smith (eds.) Quadrant: Twenty Five Years, 1982 (reprint), pp. 268-300.
- "Taxation: The Politics of Change: in J Wilkes (ed.) The Politics of Taxation (Australian Institute of Political Science, Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney 1980) pp. 270-300.
- "The Liberal Party" in H Mayer, H Nelson (eds.) Australian Politics: A Fifth Reader, Longman Cheshire: Melbourne, 1980, pp. 292-305.
- "Political Parties and Australian Culture" in H Mayer, H Nelson (eds.) Australian Politics: A Fifth Reader (reprint) Longman Cheshire: Melbourne 1980, pp. 413-425.
- "Social Change and Political Cleavages in Australia" (reprint) in A Parkin, J Summers, D Woodward (eds.) Government, Politics and Power in Australia, 2nd ed. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1980, pp. 202-213.
- "The Australian Electorate, in H R Penniman (ed.) The Australian National Elections of 1977, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1979, pp. 19-63.
- "Political Parties and Australian Culture", Quadrant, 125: 3-13, 1977.
- "The Federal Parliament", in Australia (ed., Zeigler), Artarmon, Sydney, 1976.
- "Liberalism Is It Relevant?" in H Mayer, H Nelson (eds.) Australian Politics: A Fourth Reader, Cheshire, Melbourne 1976.
- "The Future of Political Parties: The Australian Case", in L Maisel, P Sacks (eds.) The Future of Political Parties, Sage Electoral Studies Yearbook, Vol. 1 1975, pp. 124-164.
- "Australians and Authority"(with D Brereton), Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol. 7, 1974-5, pp. 57-64.
- "Swingers and Stayers: The Australian Swinging Voter 1961-1972", in H Mayer (ed.) Labor to Power: Australia's 1972 Election, Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1973, pp. 281-92.
- "A Leader and a Philosophy", in H Mayer (ed.) Labor to Power, Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1973, pp.48-59.
- "The American Discontent: The Crisis of American Liberalism", I.P.A. Review, Vol. 26, 1972 pp. 18-24.
- "An Interview with H Lasswell"(with F G Little), Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol. 4, 1971, pp. 41-54.
