Oliver Yates

Oliver Yates in an Australian former renewable energy executive and political candidate.
Family
Yates is the son of William Yates, who served in both the British House of Commons and the Australian House of Representatives. His maternal grandparents were political activists Ernest and Eleonora Tennant.
Career
Yates spent 20 years working at Macquarie Group. He is the former chief executive of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
Politics
Yates ran in the federal electorate of Kooyong in 2019, as an independent, receiving 9% of the primary vote.
In August 2019, Yates was accused by Liberal Party senator Michael Sukkar via parliamentary privilege of having backed a legal challenge to on the basis of Frydenberg's citizenship status (relating to his mother being a holocaust survivor who migrated to Australia from Hungary). No evidence was produced to support Sukkar's allegations.
In response to Sukkar's allegations Yates said; "They are lying, abusing parliamentary privilege saying rubbish they would not dare say outside of Parliament, ... We need reform of (a) party politics that encourages members to abuse parliamentary privilege for party-political purposes"
Yates was a supporter of an unrelated legal action regarding misleading signage produced by the Liberal Party.

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