Meet Arthur "Artie" Sinodinos, Australia's new industry, innovation and science minister.
1. The 59-year-old is a member of the left or "moderate" faction of the Liberal party. He grew up in a left-wing Greek migrant family and supports same-sex marriage.
2. Sinodinos was born in Newcastle to Greek migrants and only learned to speak English properly when he started school at five years old.
3. After graduating with a Bachelor of Communications (honours) from the University of Newcastle, Sinodinos joined the Department of Finance's graduate program before working as a public servant in the Treasury department.
4. While serving as Howard's senior adviser and chief of staff from 1996 to 2006 he was named "the most covertly powerful person in Australia".
5. After leaving Howard's office he turned down a job as the Australian ambassador to the United States.
6. Instead he worked in senior roles at merchant bank Goldman Sachs (Malcolm Turnbull's old stomping ground) and the National Australia Bank before being appointed chairman of Australian Water Holdings.
7. While at Australian Water Holdings, Sinodinos earned $200,000 for 25-40 hours of work a year. Not a week. A YEAR.
8. In 2008 Sinodinos was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to politics and the Greek community.
9. Sinodinos was treasurer of the NSW Liberal party from 2009-11 and party president from 2011-12.
Rallying the troops with @garethjward at the NSW Young Liberals dinner
10. He replaced Helen Coonan as a Liberal senator for NSW in 2011, and was re-elected in 2013 and 2016.
11. He's a big supporter of NSW. Here he is pictured with Queensland supporter and deputy PM, Barnaby Joyce.
12. After the 2013 election, when the Coalition took power back from Labor, then-prime minister Tony Abbott gave Sinodinos the job of assistant treasurer.
13. But he was forced to stand down seven months later during the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption's investigation into Australian Water Holdings, and its links to notorious NSW Labor politician Eddie Obeid.
In tribute to Arthur Sinodinos, its time to revisit this @davpope cartoon from 19 March 2014 http://t.co/e51r7eYVqE
AWH was trying to win a $1 billion government contract in Western Sydney. If it had succeeded, it's estimated Sinodinos would have received $20 million.
On the stand, Sinodinos denied knowing the Obeid family was involved in the tender. He also said he knew nothing about AWH’s $75k in donations to the Liberal party at the time he was NSW Liberal treasurer. It's alleged these donations were used to launder developer donations to the party.
Despite no corruption finding being made against Sinodinos, and all allegations being dropped, he was forced to resign from the frontbench.
He was replaced as assistant treasurer by Josh Frydenberg.
14. Sinodinos was going to announce his decision to stand down but it was leaked to the media, allegedly by Abbott's chief of staff Peta Credlin, before he had a chance!
15. Cut to 2015. Sinodinos was one of the eight masterminds behind the coup that saw Malcolm Turnbull replace Tony Abbott as prime minister.
16. His loyalty to Turnbull was rewarded with the job of cabinet secretary.
17. He's known among his colleagues as having a quriky sense of humour, and it's said he could always make John Howard laugh.
Visiting Our Big Kitchen in Bondi to see the fantastic work they do. For it is in giving that we receive.
18. Finally, here he is looking sceptically at a zebra. Classic comedy.
