Senator Kerrynne Liddle & Senator Matt Canavan on The Vikki Campion Show - 10 July 2024

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Kerrynne Liddle (born 7 October 1967) is an Australian politician and the first Indigenous federal member of parliament from South Australia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australia). She is an Arrernte (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrernte_people) woman and member of the Liberal Party (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia). She was elected to the Senate (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Senate)
 on the party's ticket in South Australia at the
2022 federal election (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Australian_federal_election)
, to a term beginning on 1 July 2022. She was a journalist and corporate manager before entering politics

 

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW : Matthew grew up in Logan just south of Brisbane. After achieving a First Class Honours Degree in Economics at the University of Queensland, Matthew worked at the Productivity Commission where he eventually rose to the level of Director. During that time Matthew worked on projects ranging from competition laws, housing affordability to counting the number of policies that Australian governments have introduced to tackle climate change (the answer was 244).
At the 2013 election Matthew was elected to the Senate. He took up his position as a Senator in the Nationals party room in July 2014 as a Senator based in Rockhampton, the first Senator to be based in Rockhampton for more than 20 years.