Education
Before entering parliament, Kavanagh attained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws as well as a Diploma in Education, a Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies and a Master's degree in Asian studies at the University of Melbourne. He has worked as both a teacher and as a lawyer.
Peter Kavanagh has travelled extensively within Australia and around the world, especially in East Asia. He has spent a total of more than two years in China and formally studied in Taipei, Nanjing, Beijing, Tokyo and Rome. He lectured in a college in Malaysia between 1994 and 1996. Kavanagh has working fluency in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese and retains some abilities in Japanese, Indonesian and Malay.
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