Our People

Matt is Head of Strategy and Government Relations at Luerssen Australia, a Visiting Fellow at the UWA Defence and Security Institute and a Board Member of RSLWA.

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Prior to joining Luerssen Australia, he was the inaugural Executive Director of Defence West.  He is an Australian Army Afghanistan Veteran and a Walkley Award winner.

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Matt deployed to Afghanistan as a public affairs officer in 2009 and East Timor in 2007.  He was a federal political reporter for Network Ten from 2011 to 2015. He joined Ten’s Perth newsroom in 2004 and before starting in television, was a rural reporter with the ABC in Esperance. ‍

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He left Network Ten in 2015 and joined former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s office as a media adviser.

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After the 2016 federal election, Matt joined the Minister for Defence Industry’s office as a policy adviser. He was promoted to senior adviser in 2017 and worked on Defence’s most complex and sensitive projects. In August 2018 he was appointed as a senior adviser to the Minister for Defence.

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Matt has a Bachelor of Arts from Curtin University and has started a Master of Business Administration at the University of Western Australia.

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