Ken Wyatt Biography

Kenneth George Wyatt AM (born 4 August 1952) is a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the electoral division of Hasluck in Western Australia for the Liberal Party of Australia. Wyatt has served as the Minister for Aged Care and Australia's first Minister for Indigenous Health since January 2017. He previously served as the Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care between September 2015 and January 2017. He is of Aboriginal Australian (Noongar, Yamatji and Wongi), Indian, English and Irish descent, and in 2010 became the first Aboriginal member of the House of Representatives, as well as the first indigenous federal minister in 2017.