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Paul Fletcher is the principal of Paul Fletcher & Associates, bringing experience from senior business leadership and more than fifteen years in the Australian Parliament.
Today Paul is a director of the Tech Council of Australia and Amalgamated Telecom Holdings Limited, and an adviser to transport technology business CompassIOT.
15+ years
Representing Bradfield in the Australian Parliament from 2009 to 2025.
Communications and infrastructure
Ministerial and Cabinet experience across communications, cities, the arts and urban infrastructure.
Eight years at Optus
Senior management experience before entering public life.
Public service
Paul was elected to the Australian Parliament as the Member for Bradfield in December 2009, the first of six elections he contested successfully. He served for more than fifteen years before retiring at the May 2025 election.
From 2013 to 2022, the Liberal Party was in government and Paul served successively as a Parliamentary Secretary, Minister and Cabinet Minister. Apart from nine months as Minister for Social Services, his frontbench service was largely in communications and infrastructure. He was Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts in the Morrison Government.
From May 2022 until January 2025, Paul was the Shadow Minister for Science, Arts, Government Services and the Digital Economy, and Manager of Opposition Business in the House.
Business and advisory
Before entering politics, Paul spent eight years on the Senior Management Team at Optus. His current advisory and board work draws on that private-sector experience and his long involvement in communications and infrastructure policy.
Education
Paul has dual first-class honours degrees in law and economics from the University of Sydney and an MBA from Columbia University in New York, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.