page_title: Steven Ciobo
section_title: Abbott Government (2013–15)
hierarchical_section_title: Steven Ciobo / Political career / Abbott Government (2013–15)
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, The Hon Steven Ciobo MP, addressing the Financial Services Council Life Insurance Conference in Sydney on 3 April 2014.
context_page_description: Steven Michele Ciobo is a retired Australian politician who represented the Division of Moncrieff in the House of Representatives from the 2001 federal election until his retirement at the 2019 election. He was a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland, and sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament. On 1 March 2019 Ciobo announced his decision to retire from politics at the 2019 federal election.
  Ciobo served as the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment in the Turnbull Government from February 2016 until his resignation on 21 August 2018 in the wake of the Liberal Party leadership spill earlier that day. He went on to serve as Minister for Defence Industry, working in conjunction with the Defence Minister, until his resignation in March 2019. He previously served as Minister for International Development and the Pacific from September 2015 to February 2016, and earlier as a parliamentary secretary in the Abbott Government from September 2013 to September 2015.
context_section_description: On 18 September 2013 Ciobo was appointed the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Joe Hockey. He was also appointed as Australia's alternate governor to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Ciobo was given responsibility for the Foreign Investment Review Board, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Royal Australian Mint, the National Housing Supply Council and the Australian Valuation Office. Since his appointment, Ciobo has abolished both the National Housing Supply Council, saying the Council's activities were "no longer needed"; and the Australian Valuation Office, saying "a compelling case for the Commonwealth providing its own valuation services no longer exists, particularly given there is a highly competitive market of private sector providers"; and announced plans to privatise the Royal Australian Mint.
  In December 2014, Ciobo was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and to the Minister for Trade and Investment.
caption: Ciobo addressing a Financial Services Council conference in Sydney in 2014.
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