Wayne Swan On 13 February 2007 Wayne Swan delivered a speech in Parliament in response to the Government's Tax Laws Amendment (Simplified Superannuation) Bill 2006. This is an edited version of his speech. Wayne Swan is the federal Shadow Treasurer and Labor MP for Lilley, the Brisbane seat he held from 1993 to 1996 and regained at the 1998 election. An academic and campaigner for social justice, Wayne was State Secretary of the Queensland Branch of the ALP and Campaign Director for Wayne Goss' victories in 1989 and 1992, and, before that, a lecturer for 12 years at the Queensland Institute of Technology. Between 1998 and 2004 Wayne was the Shadow Minister for Family and Community Services. He is the author of Postcode: the Splintering of a Nation published by Pluto Press in June 2005.
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