Jim Molan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jim Molan

Australian general and Senator

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1950

Place of Birth: East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Profession: politician, military officer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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About Jim Molan

  • Andrew James "Jim" Molan, (born 11 April 1950), is an Australian politician and former major general in the Australian Army.
  • He has been a Senator for New South Wales since November 2019, representing the Liberal Party.
  • He was previously a Senator for New South Wales from December 2017 to June 2019. During his military career, Molan was commanding officer of the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, commander of the 1st Brigade, commander of the 1st Division and its Deployable Joint Force Headquarters, and commander of the Australian Defence College.
  • In April 2004, he deployed for a year to Iraq to serve as Chief of Operations for the new Headquarters Multinational Force in Iraq.
  • He has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, as well as the Legion of Merit by the U.S.
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  • He retired from the Australian Army in 2008, and later that year released his first book, Running the War in Iraq. Following his retirement from the Australian Army, Molan was appointed by the Abbott Government as a special envoy for Operation Sovereign Borders and was subsequently credited with being an architect of the coalition's Stop the Boats Australian border protection and asylum-seeker policies.
  • In 2016, Molan unsuccessfully stood as a Liberal Party candidate for the Senate in New South Wales at the 2016 federal election.
  • In December 2017, during the parliamentary eligibility crisis, the High Court declared him elected in place of Fiona Nash, who was ineligible to stand.
  • He was not re-elected to the Senate in the 2019 federal election. On 10 November 2019, Molan was selected by the NSW Liberal Party to fill the casual vacancy left by the resignation of Senator Arthur Sinodinos.
  • He was appointed by a joint sitting of the NSW Parliament on 14 November 2019.
  • He will serve the remainder of Sinodinos's six-year term which expires in June 2022.

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