Jeremy Kinross was educated at The King's School, Parramatta, before attending the University of New South Wales and Macquarie University, receiving a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce and an MBA, becoming both a Barrister and Chartered Accountant.
[1] In 1992, the Liberal member for the local state seat of Gordon, Tim Moore, resigned over the findings of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, having been linked to the Metherell affair.
[3] Both these seats were 'jewels in the Crown' for the Liberal Party - and there appears no public analysis or record whatsoever as to the reason(s) for that huge difference.
In the reshuffle of North Shore Liberal MPs, Kinross missed out on a seat, whilst Stephen O'Doherty in Ku-ring-gai was rewarded with the newly re-created seat of Hornsby (held by Liberal Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Neil Pickard until 1991).
Much writing on the Liberal Party factions (especially in NSW)[5] has attributed his downfall to them or, perhaps more accurately, to 'collateral damage' which also saw the chief factional powerbroker in NSW & deputy Liberal leader Ron Phillips, & his colleague Michael Photios both defeated in that 1999 general election.