The Commonwealth Treasurer

Biography

The Hon Wayne Swan MP was sworn in as Treasurer on 3 December 2007, and handed down the Rudd Government's first Budget on 13 May 2008.

Wayne has been the Member for Lilley from 1993 to 1996, and from 1998 to the present.

In 2005 he published Postcode: the Splintering of a Nation, a well-received book on economic and social policy in Australia.

Before his appointment to his current role, Wayne was Shadow Treasurer for three years and Shadow Minister for Family and Community Services for six years before that.

Wayne was for twelve years a lecturer at the Queensland Institute of Technology (now QUT), then ran the Queensland Branch of the Australian Labor Party.

He was born 30 June 1954 in Nambour, and grew up on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

As a prostate cancer survivor, Wayne is a vocal and tireless advocate for the early detection of the disease. He is married and has two daughters and a son.