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Party

AustraLian Labor Party (ALP)

Date of Election : 13 June 1998

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Parliamentary Service

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 21 April 2009. Chair (ex officio), Standing Orders Committee from 23 April 2009. Minister for Transport, Trade, Employment and Industrial Relations 13 September 2007 - 25 March 2009. Minister for State Development, Employment and Industrial Relations 13 September 2006 - 13 September 2007. Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy 3 March 2005 - 13 September 2006. Minister for Energy 25 August 2004 - 13 September 2006. Minister for Environment 12 February 2004 - 25 August 2004. Chair, Select Committee on the Consequences of Changing Political Status 14 October 2003 - 13 January 2004. Member, Panel of Temporary Chairmen for the 50th Parliament 22 March 2001 - 13 January 2004. Chairman, Members' Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee 30 July 1998 - 23 January 2001. Member, Estimates Committee C, 2000. Chairman, Estimates Committee A, 1998 and 1999. Member, Panel of Temporary Chairmen for the 49th Parliament from 4 August 1998, 49th Parliament Acting Chair, Food Council Queensland for Minister.

Current Parliamentary service is highlighted in green.

Party Activity

Member of the Australian Labor Party since 1979.

Personal

Born Murgon, August 1953. Married, three children. M.Lit..St.; B.A.; B.Ed.St. University of Queensland; DipTchg. Mt Gravatt C.A.E. Prior to election, Senior Advisor to then Minister for Health, Hon. Peter Beattie, Senior Advisor to then State Opposition Leader Peter Beattie, 1996-98, and Senior Advisor to Premier Wayne Goss. Previous advisor to Federal Member for Rankin, Hon. D.P. Beddall.