Last Updated: 1 April 2009
Electorate CAIRNS Party AustraLian Labor Party (ALP) Date of Election : 13 June 1998 View : Speeches by Desley Boyle >> View : Inaugural Speech >> Parliamentary Service Minister for Local Government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships from 26 March 2009. Minister for Tourism, Regional Development and Industry 13 September 2007 - 26 March 2009. Minister for Child Safety 13 September 2006 - 13 September 2007. Minister for Environment, Local Government, Planning and Women of Queensland 25 August 2004 - 13 September 2006. Minister for Local Government and Planning and Women of Queensland 11 March 2004 - 25 August 2004. Minister for Local Government and Planning 12 February 2004 - 11 March 2004. Member, Estimates Committee F, 2002. Member, Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee 1 January 2002 - 18 March 2004. Member, Parliamentary Criminal Justice Committee 3 May 2001 - 31 December 2001. Member, Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee 30 July 1998 - 23 January 2001. Chair, Estimates Committee E, 2000. Member, Estimates Committee A, 1998 and 1999. Member, Gaming Review Committee May 1999 - December 1999. Current Parliamentary service is highlighted in green. Party Activity Secretary, Cairns Branch ALP; Delegate, Leichhardt FDE. Local Government Service Alderman, Cairns City Council 1988 - 1991, 1991 - 1994; Deputy Mayor, Cairns 1990 - 1992. Personal Born Newcastle NSW, 29 March 1948. Three children, two grandchildren. B.Sc. (Hons); M.Psych.; M.B.A. Prior to election clinical and organisational psychologist; Director of Desley Boyle & Associates, private psychologists, Cairns. Previous positions: President, FNQ Employment; Chairperson, FNQ Family Resource Service; Spokesperson, FNQ Friends of the ABC. Board Member, Lifeline FNQ; Chairperson, Peninsula and Torres Strait Regional Health Authority; Chairperson, Northern Australia Development Council; Board Member, Cairns Port Authority. Interests - grandchildren, politics, theatre, film and contemporary music.
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