Martin Francis Dixon is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician

Politician

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. He is a Liberal Party of Australia

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Victorian Legislative Assembly

The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria in Australia. Together with the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house, it sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Melbourne.-History:...

. He currently serves as Minister for Education and as a member of the Commonwealth Election Observers Panel.

Dixon was elected as the Member for the Electoral district of Dromana

Electoral district of Dromana

Electoral district of Dromana was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Dromana:...

 at the 1996 and 1999 Victorian state elections. At the 2002 Victorian state election, after the electoral boundaries were redistributed in 2001, Dixon was elected as the first Member of the newly created Electoral district of Nepean

Electoral district of Nepean

The Electoral district of Nepean is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly covering the southern most part of the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. It is named after Point Nepean which is contained within the electorate....

. He was reelected for this seat at the 2006 Victorian state election.

Dixon has been a member of a number of Joint Parliamentary Committees, as well as holding various portfolio positions in Shadow Cabinet including Education and Training, Education Services, Skills and Employment,Innovation, Victorian Communities and Veterans Affairs.

Education

Dixon was educated at Marcellin College

Marcellin College

Marcellin College is a Marist Catholic secondary boys' school situated in Bulleen, Victoria, Australia.The school was founded in 1950 by the Marist Brothers originally in Camberwell...

, the Australian Catholic University

Australian Catholic University

Australian Catholic University is a national public university. It has six campuses and offers programs in five faculties throughout Australia.-History:...

 and La Trobe University

La Trobe University

La Trobe University is a multi-campus university in Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament to become the third oldest university in the state of Victoria. The main campus of La Trobe is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora; two other major campuses are...

. He holds a Diploma of Teaching and a Bachelor of Education

Bachelor of Education

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 degree. Prior to entering Parliament, he worked as a teacher, a school principal and as Deputy Chairman of Primary Education at the Catholic Education Office in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

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External links

• Hon Martin Dixon. Parliament of Victoria
• www.martindixon.org