Chris Crewther
Member of Parliament
Chris Crewther MP is the Member for Mornington, Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Shadow Assistant Minister for Multicultural & Multifaith Affairs, and Opposition (Liberal Party) Whip in the Legislative Assembly, in the Victorian Parliament.
Chris is married to Grace. They live in Mount Martha with their two kids, Yasmin and Edward, who attend local primary schools.
Chris has been vice president of the Parents and Friends Association at a local public primary school, a member of the Mount Eliza Woodland Residents Association Inc committee, patron of the Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia, and more. He is also a member of the Frankston Rotary Club.
Until recently, Chris was also Head of Strategic Partnerships with the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, ran his own small business, and was a member of Australia’s Modern Slavery Expert Advisory Group.
Previously, Chris represented Mount Eliza and Mornington residents as their Federal MP, delivering many local projects, such as the new athletics track and soccer fields at Civic Reserve for Mornington Little Athletics and Mount Martha Soccer Club, and Peninsula Home Hospice’s new building.
In Federal Parliament, Chris was Chair of the Foreign Affairs and Aid Sub-Committee, and the Australian Government’s Home Affairs and Legal Affairs Policy Committee. Through these roles, Chris instigated and led Parliament’s Modern Slavery Inquiry, bringing about Australia’s Modern Slavery Act.
For this work, Chris was awarded Anti-Slavery Australia’s Freedom Award, and named in the Top 100 Global Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leaders.
Chris has also been an international lawyer through the United Nations in Kosovo, CEO of Mildura Development Corporation, lawyer, project manager, magistrates' associate, a not-for-profit Director, and more.
Chris graduated with two masters’ degrees in International Law and Diplomacy from the Australian National University, being awarded the prize for top student.
Chris and his three siblings grew up in Horsham, where his parents still live. His father Barry started off in the Army Apprentice Scheme at the old Balcombe Army Barracks in Mount Martha, before becoming a mechanic, financial planner, and community transport manager. Chris completed his schooling at Murtoa Secondary College and Horsham College, commencing work himself as a paperboy aged 11.
Chris’s spark to make a difference through politics was lit after seeing significant disadvantage growing up, and doing the YMCA’s Youth Parliament during high school at Camp Manyung in Mount Eliza and the Victorian Parliament.
