Oliver Yates

Oliver Yates in an Australian former renewable energy executive and political candidate.

Family

Yates is the son of William Yates, who served in both the British House of Commons and the Australian House of Representatives. His maternal grandparents were politicial activists Ernest and Eleonora Tennant.

Career

Yates spent 20 years working at Macquarie Group.[1] He is the former chief executive of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.[1][2]

Politics

Yates ran in the federal electorate of Kooyong in 2019, as an independent, receiving 9% of the primary vote.[3]

In August 2019, Yates was accused by Liberal Party senator Michael Sukkar via parliamentary privilege of having backed a legal challenge to Josh Frydenberg's 2019 re-election on the basis of Frydenberg's citizenship status (relating to his mother being a holocaust survivor who migrated to Australia from Hungary). No evidence was produced to support Sukkar's allegations.

In response to Sukkar's allegations Yates said;

"They are lying, abusing parliamentary privilege saying rubbish they would not dare say outside of Parliament, ... We need reform of (a) party politics that encourages members to abuse parliamentary privilege for party-political purposes"[4]

Yates was a supporter of an unrelated legal action regarding misleading signage produced by the Liberal Party.[5]

References
  1. "Top Carbon Cutters - #4 Oliver Yates". www.theaustralian.com.au. 2013-03-18. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  2. "Clean, green and rich: Wealthy donors bankrolling politicians who support climate action". www.abc.net.au. 2019-10-28. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  3. scheme=AGLSTERMS. AglsAgent; corporateName=Australian Electoral Commission; address=50 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra. "House of Representatives division information". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2020-08-02.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. "Liberal Party doubles down with attack on Oliver Yates". Australian Financial Review. 2019-09-11. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  5. "Challenge to Chinese-language election signs fails to oust Treasurer". www.abc.net.au. 24 December 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
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