Daniel Mulino

Daniel Mulino (born 6 November 1969) is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the Eastern Victoria Region from 2014 to 2018. In the 2019 federal election he was elected as the inaugural Member for the Division of Fraser. Since 2025, he serves as Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services in the second Albanese ministry.

Early life and education Mulino emigrated to Australia with his parents when he was 18 months old, having been born in Brindisi, Italy. His Australian mother had begun her career a teacher and his Italian father later became a psychiatric nurse in Australia. The family were briefly in Sydney, and Mulino studied year 7 at the selective James Ruse Agricultural High School.

Having returned to Canberra, Mulino completed bachelor's degrees in law and arts. Mulino is one of ten MP’s in the 47th Parliament of Australia who possess a PhD, the others being Anne Aly, Andrew Leigh, Andrew Charlton, Jim Chalmers, Jess Walsh, Adam Bandt, Mehreen Faruqi, Anne Webster and Helen Haines. He went on to teach economics, both at Yale and at Monash University in Melbourne. He has assisted in the Expenditure Review Committee process on two State Budgets.

Mulino later became an economic adviser to financial services minister Bill Shorten in the Rudd-Gillard governments, working on reforms to flood insurance and mitigation strategies following natural disasters in Queensland. Immediately prior to the 2014 Victorian Election, he was Director of Policy at Pottinger, working on projects to advise the government.

Political career Mulino became politically active as a shop steward while working at Big W during high school and as a student at Australian National University.

He moved to state politics, being elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Eastern Victoria, 2014.

Joining government benches At the 2022 Australian federal election Mulino won 66.5% of the two-party preferred vote in his seat. With Labor now in government, he was appointed to chair the Standing Committee on Economics, which provides oversight to the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Personal life Mulino won the best speaker award at the World University Debating Championships in 1993 in Oxford.

He met his wife Sarah while volunteering for the Labor Party — "tying ALP balloons to the arms of unsuspecting small children in the Kmart car park." Together, they are raising a daughter. He describes himself as a lapsed Catholic.