Biography
Dr David Solomon AM
Dr David Solomon AM was appointed for a five-year term as Integrity Commissioner from 1 July 2009.
He was Chair of the Independent Panel appointed by the Bligh Government to review Queensland’s Freedom of Information laws in 2007-8.
He retired from full-time journalism at the end of 2005. He spent most of his career in Canberra, writing about politics and the law, for such newspapers as The Australian, the Financial Review and The Canberra Times. He moved to Brisbane in 1992 to Chair the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, and, when that Commission was wound up, stayed and worked for the Courier-Mail as a Contributing Editor.
He has degrees from the Australian National University in Arts and Law, and a Doctorate of Letters. He has written almost a dozen books on parliament, politics, constitutional law and the High Court.
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