Early Career
Humphries was born in Sydney in 1958 and went to the Australian National University in Canberra in 1977 where he was elected President of the ANU Students' Association. He worked as a solicitor, a legal office in the ACT Administration, prior to self-government, and political advisor to Senator Amanda Vanstone.
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