Early Career and Background
Raised as one of five children by his mother in a single parent household, Macdonald graduated from La Trobe University with a Bachelor of Arts (honours) in history and worked for the Australian Council of Overseas Aid, and a range of Commonwealth and State government agencies before his election to parliament in 1988.
At the time of entering Parliament, he was a farmer near Carcoar in the Central West of New South Wales.
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