Carlo has a longstanding interest in public transport and urban planning which is reflected in his current role as Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure. Currently the main areas of interest are buses and taxis. Follow the links to "Infrastructure"in the menu to read up on Carlo's latest research, speeches on Public Transport and issues effecting the taxi industry.
 

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Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Melbourne University
Diploma in Italian Language, University of Siena (Italy)
Masters in Urban Planning, Melbourne University

Language Skills:
Fluent in Italian, English, Spanish and Veneto.
 

Carlo and his partner Siobhan Hannan have 3 children: Annalivia (8), Gabriel (6) and Aoife (3).

Background notes

His parents came to Australia from Italy after WWII. They come from Vicenza, in the old Venetian republic.

The family followed the typical path of living first in Carlton and later in Coburg, working double shifts in factories, and pinning their hopes on a better life for their kids.

Carlo worked alongside his father at General Motors, during his student years, and developed a lifelong passion for cars - but not, like most lads, for cars and engines, so much as for the car industry and productions methods.

He is very knowledgeable about manufacturing industry, fordist and post-fordist production, and other related matters.

This makes him ideally suited to represent the northern suburbs seat of Coburg, which is a historic centre of Victoria and indeed Australia's manufacturing industry, which has ridden the highs and lows of manufacturing fortunes over the years.

After matriculating at Newlands High School, Carlo went on to study politics and languages at Melbourne University - where he found himself very much in the minority as a product of a state school, and a working class suburb and family.

As well as developing his already keen interest in politics, Carlo used his university years to convert his knowledge of Venetian dialect to standard Italian, and to learn Spanish.

His daily life has now become very polyglot, with the addition of Greek speaking relations by marriage to the already bilingual family. And of course, the Brunswick/Coburg area is one of the most multicultural in Melbourne, with large Italian, Greek, Arabic, Chinese and Turkish communities, as well as representatives of about 80 different language groups.

Carlo has more recently taken up a long standing interest in urban planning. He has completed a Masters thesis for the Melbourne Uni MUP on the medium density housing boom.

Carlo has been a very active member of the ALP for some 14 years, in the Brunswick area, and has been a community activist in many areas.

His work background includes the trade union movement, local, State and Federal government, including a stint as Ministerial Adviser in Housing in the twilight months of the Kirner government.