Please answer the following question: Facts: - successor: jeannette mchugh duncan kerr frank walker kay denman - party: australian labor party - primeminister: bob -lrb- 1991 -- 1992 -rrb- bob hawke -lrb- 1990 -- hawke 1991 -rrb- paul keating -lrb- 1991 -- 1993 -rrb- bob -lrb- hawke 1990 -- 1991 -rrb- paul keating - office: minister of state senator for tasmania for consumer affairs minister for justice special minister - predecessor: nick bolkus mick young - occupation: priest , legal academic - term end: 27 5 july 1993 may 1992 24 march 1993 24 july 1987 - term start: 4 1 july 1978 april 1990 18 september 1987 16 february 1987 - birth date: 6 july 1945 - name: michael tate - birthname: michael carter tate - birth place: sydney , new south wales , australia - alma mater: university of tasmania university of oxford Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of michael tate .
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rev. fr the hon. michael carter tate ao -lrb- born 6 july 1945 -rrb- is a legal academic and former australian labor party politician who later became an ambassador and then a catholic priest .