Michael Carter Tate AO was born on 6 July 1945 and is a legal academic and former Australian Labor Party politician who later became an ambassador and then a Catholic priest.
20 Facts About Michael Tate
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Michael Carter Tate was born in Sydney on 6 July 1945.
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Michael Tate was educated at St Virgil's College in Hobart, and then studied law at the University of Tasmania, where he resided at St John Fisher College and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours in 1968.
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Michael Tate attributed his achievement to the long hours he spent in libraries, rather than in sporting or social activities, while recovering from a serious road accident in 1963, which hospitalised him in neck-to-knee plaster for five months and required further operations for the next eight years.
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Michael Tate later gained a Master of Arts in theology from the University of Oxford in 1971.
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Michael Tate served as legal adviser to the Tasmanian Parliamentary Delegation to the Constitutional Conventions from 1973 to 1977, and was a member of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace from 1972 to 1978.
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Michael Tate was elected to the Senate representing Tasmania, at the 1977 election, his term commencing on 1 July 1978.
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Michael Tate was President of the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship 1985 to 1988.
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Michael Tate concluded that on the civil law standard of proof, the balance of probabilities, Murphy had a case to answer on the charge of perverting the course of justice, but not if the criminal standard, beyond reasonable doubt, was applied.
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Michael Tate served as Minister for Justice from 1987 to 1993 in the Hawke and Keating governments, in addition to other portfolios.
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Michael Tate resigned from the Senate on 5 July 1993.
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John Paul was somewhat surprised when Michael Tate told him he would be studying for the priesthood.
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Michael Tate worked as parish priest of the Roman Catholic Parishes of Bridgewater, Sandy Bay, Huon Valley, and currently serves as parish priest of South Hobart.
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Michael Tate is Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Hobart.
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On 18 November 2010, Michael Tate was appointed as Tasmania's first Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.
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On top of his ministry, Michael Tate has continued his research in law, particularly in the area of international humanitarian law, and currently works in a part-time capacity as Honorary Research Professor at the University of Tasmania's Faculty of Law.
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Michael Tate was a member of Australian Red Cross's International Humanitarian Law Committee.
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In 1992 and 1996, respectively, Michael Tate was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Tasmania and Charles Sturt University.
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All of these awards honoured the role Michael Tate played as Federal Minister for Justice.
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Michael Tate was invited to give the Newman Lecture at Mannix College, Monash University.