Julian Hill

Hill made it clear in his maiden speech that he held strong views against the monarchy. In December 2019, he addressed the chamber on the issue, stating that when he was first elected it was a confronting moment for him to take an oath of allegiance to a foreigner. He spoke of feeling like a cheap traitor, going as far as stating that he crossed his fingers when taking his oath of allegiance.

In February 2019, Hill sparked controversy on social media by attacking the former Australian Foreign Minister only minutes after she delivered her resignation speech, labeling it 'pathetic' and 'a good fist of a chum bucket'. He also tweeted that the 'grandiose claim that Julie Bishop was Australia's finest Foreign Minister is nonsense'.

In 2018, as part of a redistribution altering electoral boundaries, media reports suggested Hill was the biggest beneficiary. He was subsequently reelected in 2019

In late 2018, after a change of Prime Minister, Hill recited the Muppet Show theme song on camera. Media reports considered it a bizarre attempt at comedy.

In 2017, Hill was one of a number of Members of the Australian House of Representatives to vote for same sex marriage to be legalised in Australia despite the majority of his Victorian electorate voting against the proposed law as part of a plebiscite.

Hill served as a Councillor of the City of Port Phillip from 1999 until 2004. He was elected mayor in 2000, and held the office until 2002. Hill was 26 when elected mayor, the youngest person to hold the role in the offices history. in 2001, he announced he would step down as mayor when his term finished in March 2002, saying the personal cost and financial strain associated with the low salary and long hours made the job too difficult.

Hill started his career as an electorate officer and adviser for his predecessor Alan Griffin in 1995. From 2002 until his election to parliament in 2016, he worked as a senior public servant for the Victorian Government in the Departments of Transport, Sustainability and Environment, Planning and Community Development, and Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources.

Hill grew up in the south-east Melbourne suburb of Burwood, and attended Wesley College from 1985 to 1990. He obtained Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) and Bachelor of Laws degrees from Monash University in 2000, and a Graduate Certificate of International Relations from Deakin University in 2015. He became a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia in 2012.

Julian Christopher Hill (born 4 June 1973) is an Australian politician. He is the member for Bruce in the House of Representatives. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party and succeeded the previous member, Alan Griffin, at the 2016 federal election. Hill is one of a number of LGBTI politicians currently in the Australian Parliament. He is a member of Labor's Left faction.