Contact details
Electorate Office Postal Address
PO Box 808
KENMORE QLD 4069Electorate Office Address
Suites 16 & 17 Level 1, Kenmore Village
9 Brookfield Road
KENMORE QLD 4069Phone: (07) 3737 4110Fax: n/aEmail: [email protected]
Parliamentary Service
Current:
- Shadow Minister for Education: 16 Nov 2020
- Shadow Minister for the Arts: 15 Dec 2017
Past:
- Shadow Minister for Communities and Shadow Minister for Disability Services and Seniors: 15 Dec 2017 - 15 Nov 2020
- Shadow Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships: 15 Dec 2017 - 15 Nov 2020
- Shadow Minister for the Environment and Heritage Protection and Shadow Minister for National Parks and the Great Barrier Reef: 10 May 2016 - 14 Dec 2017
- Deputy Chair, Health, Communities, Disability Services and Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Committee: 18 Feb 2016 - 10 May 2016
- Member, Health and Ambulance Services Committee: 27 Mar 2015 - 18 Feb 2016
Career
President AMA Queensland (2013-2014), President RDAQ (2006-2007), Specialist Physician (Addiction Medicine), Medical Administrator (Uniting Care Health & Queensland Health), Visiting Medical Officer (The Wesley Hospital & St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital), Adjunct Associate Professor (Griffith University School of Medicine)
Party Positions:- (LNP) State Leader's Representative to the LNP Policy Standing Committee. 2015 - 2020
- (LNP) Chair of the LNP Federal Population Sustainability & Social Policy Committee. 2010 - 2012
- (LNP) Member of the LNP Health Policy Committee. 2008 - 2013
- (LNP) Chair of the LNP Health Policy Committee. 2008 - 2009
- (NAT) Member of the National Party Health Policy Committee. 2004 - 2006
- (LIB) Member of the University of Queensland Liberal Student Club. 1990 - 1996
- (LIB) Young Liberal. 1990 - 1996
- (LIB) Member of the Australian Liberal Students Federation. 1990 - 1996
Official Awards: Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine Distinguished Service Award (2010); Lantern Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented & Partnership Policing - State Highly Commended Project Aegis (2013)
Community Activity: Anglican Overseas Aid (General Member). Upbeat Arts (Patron), Diabetes Queensland (Honorary Ambassador). Surf Lifesaving Queensland (Vice-Patron), 2020-2021.
Personal
Birth Date:
5 October 1972 (Brisbane, Queensland)
Family:
Married (4 children)
Education:
Toowong State School, Anglican Church Grammar School, University of Queensland, Monash University
Religion:
Anglican
Additional Information
Academic and professional qualifications: Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS); Master of Diplomacy and Trade (MDiplTrade); Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (FCHSM); Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP); Fellow of Advanced Rural General Practice (FARGP); Fellow of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (FACRRM); Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (FRACMA); Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians' Chapter of Addiction Medicine (FAChAM) (RACP); Queensland Mental Health Commission Advisory Council (2014-2015); Brookfield Show Society (Life Member); Australian Monarchist League (Life Member); Kenmore Rotary Club (Honorary Member); Queensland Government Rural Health Advisory Council Member (2007-2009).
Notes: Personal interests: tennis, rugby union, reading, travel