Telmo Languiller

The Honourable Telmo Languiller MP
Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 December 2014
Deputy	Don Nardella
Preceded by	Christine Fyffe
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Tarneit
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 November 2014
Preceded by	Tim Pallas
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Sunshine
In office 18 September 1999 – 30 November 2002
Preceded by	Ian Baker
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Derrimut
In office 30 November 2002 – 29 November 2014
Preceded by	New seat
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Personal details
Born	(1957-07-31) 31 July 1957 Montevideo, Uruguay
Political party	Australian Labor Party

Telmo Ramon Languiller-Tornesi (born 31 July 1957) is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1999, representing the electorates of Sunshine (1999–2002), Derrimut (2002–2014) and Tarneit (2014–present).

Languiller was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, but soon migrated to Australia. He attended high school at Flemington in Victoria, and received a Bachelor of Arts majoring in sociology and politics from Footscray Institute of Technology. He had previously worked as a labourer, a Spanish interpreter, and a trade unionist. From 1993 to 1996 he was electorate officer for former Deputy Prime Minister Brian Howe, and became Chief of Staff for Andrew Theophanous in 1996.

In 1999, he was selected as the Labor candidate for the safe seat of Sunshine, succeeding Ian Baker whom he had beaten in the preselection, and was duly elected. His seat was abolished in 2002 and replaced with Derrimut, which Languiller won. In 2002 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Community Services, and he has been an Acting Speaker since 2004. In 2006 he moved to the Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs position, and then to Human Services in 2007.