Mr Tony Windsor MP – Parliament of Australia

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Member for New England, New South Wales

Party: Independent
Chamber: House of Representatives

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Contact details

Parliament Office

PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Telephone:: (02) 6277 4722
Fax:: (02) 6277 8545

Electorate Office 1

(Principal Office)

Shop 5, 259 Peel Street
Tamworth, NSW, 2340

Postal address
PO Box 963
Tamworth, NSW, 2340

Telephone:: (02) 6761 3080
Fax:: (02) 6761 3380
Toll Free:: 1300 301 839

Electorate Office 2

82 Otho Street
Inverell, NSW, 2360

Postal address
PO Box 299A
Inverell, NSW, 2360

Telephone:: (02) 6721 0144
Fax:: (02) 6721 0288

Connect with Tony Windsor

Email: Tony.Windsor.MP@aph.gov.au
Websites: Personal website

Alternative URL

www.aph.gov.au/T_Windsor_MP

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Electorate details

New England, New South Wales

Biography

Personal
Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament
Electorate

Parliamentary service

State: elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Tamworth 25.5.1991. Resigned 16.10.2001.
Federal: elected to the House of Representatives for New England, New South Wales, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010.

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Parliamentary positions

Member, Speaker's Panel from 16.2.12.

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Committee service

State: Member, Standing Committee on Public Works from 3.6.99 to 16.10.01.
Federal: House of Representatives Standing: Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry from 20.3.02 to 17.10.07; Primary Industries and Resources from 11.3.08 to 19.7.10; Regional Australia from 25.10.10; Privileges and Members' Interests from 25.10.10.
Joint Select: Australia's Clean Energy Future Legislation from 15.9.11 to 7.10.11; Constitutional Recognition of Local Government from 26.11.12.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Republic of Korea, February-March 2010.

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Personal

Born 2.9.1950, Quirindi, NSW.
Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

BEc (UNE).
Farmer.
Member, NSW Legislative Assembly 1991-2001 (see Parliamentary service above).

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Electorate

Description: rural.
Location: northern New South Wales highlands; it includes the centres of Armidale, Barraba, Bundarra, Deepwater, Glen Innes, Gunnedah, Guyra, Inverell, Manilla, Quirindi, Tamworth, Tenterfield, Uralla, Walcha, Werris Creek and parts of Delungra and Urbenville.
Area: 59 344 sq km (approx.).
Electors enrolled: 99 677 (at 21.8.10).
Industries: cattle, sheep, grain, forestry, dairying, oats, maize, fruit, vegetables, tin-mining, bricks, trout hatchery, tourism, concrete pipe works, leather goods, tannery, gemstones, tobacco, lucerne, honey, grain processing, rubber industry, plaster works and concrete. The electorate also includes the University of New England.
State electorates: New England includes parts of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorates of Lismore, Northern Tablelands, Oxley, Tamworth and Upper Hunter.

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