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Keppel "Kep" Enderby QC (b
25 June 1926) is an
Australian Esperantist and former leading Australian politician.
Enderby was born in
Dubbo, New South Wales and educated at Dubbo High School. He was a trainee pilot in the
Royal Australian Air Force in 1944 and 1945. He studied law at
Sydney University from 1946 to 1950 and was admiited the the
New South Wales bar in 1950. From 1950 to 1954 he worked as a
barrister in London and studied at the
University of London. He also played golf in the British
Amateur and
Open Championship in 1951 and 1952. He returned to New South Wales in 1955 and practised law and lectured at
Sydney Technical College. In 1962 he became a lecturer in law at the
Australian National University in
Canberra. In 1966, he began practising law in Canberra while continuing to teach part-time. He was appointed a
Queens Counsel (QC) in 1973.
Political career
In 1970 Enderby gained
Australian Labor Party (ALP) pre-selection for the
Division of Australian Capital Territory and was subsequently elected to the
House of Representatives at
a by-election following
Jim Fraser's death in April 1970. Following
Whitlam's victory at the
1972 election, Enderby was appointed as the first minister for the
Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and the
Northern Territory in the
December 1972 ministry, replacing the former portfolio of the
Interior. In October 1973, he lost these posts, partly because his ACT porfolio made him responsible for implementing policies that were unpopular in his electorate. Instead he became
Minister for Secondary Industry and
Minister for Supply. Enderby became the last Minister for Supply—a portfolio which had been established at the beginning of
World War II and included responsibility for government munitions factories—when Supply and Secondary Industry were merged into the
Manufacturing Industry portfolio in the
June 1974 ministry.
[ It was during this time that he made what has become his most famous utterance: "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." ]
In February 1975, with Lionel Murphy's appointment to the High Court of Australia, Enderby became Attorney-General and Minister for Customs and Excise. The Customs and Excise porfolio was renamed Police and Customs in March 1975, reflecting the government's decision to establish the Australia Police—a proposal actually implemented in 1979, with the creation of the Australian Federal Police in 1979. The Police and Customs portfolio was reassigned to James Cavanagh in June 1975.[ ]
Enderby was elected to the new electorate of Canberra at the 1974 election, but was one of many Labor members to lose their seats in the landslide 1975 election defeat that followed the dismissal of the Whitlam Government.
After politics
Following the loss, Enderby moved to Sydney and returned to the bar where he practised as a Queen's Counsel. From 1982 until his retirement in 1992 he was the judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.[ ]
The one-time amateur golf champion has held a number of community positions throughout his career, including presiding over the regional society for voluntary euthanasia. Additionally, after learning Esperanto in 1987, Enderby became involved in Esperanto organisations, including serving as President of the Australian Esperanto Association from 1992 to 1997,[ as a committee member of the World Esperanto Association from 1992 to 2004, as President of the Esperanto Law Association from 1996 to 2002 and from 1998 to 2001 as President of the World Esperanto Association.]
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