Mrs Jane Prentice MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Ryan, Queensland, 2010.

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Parliamentary appointments

• Parliamentary Representative on the Advisory Council on Australian Archives from 24.2.11.
• Member, Expert Panel on the Constitutional Recognition of Local Government from 8.8.11 to 1.12.11.

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Infrastructure and Communications from 25.10.10.
• Joint Standing: Treaties from 9.10.12.
• Joint Select: Constitutional Recognition of Local Government from 26.11.12.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Timor-Leste, April 2012.

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Party positions

• Vice-President, NSW Young Liberal Movement.
• Chairman, Mosman Young Liberal Branch.
• Member, Young Liberal State Executive (NSW) 1973-77.
• Member, Liberal Party State Executive (NSW) 1976-77.
• Hon. Secretary, Warringah Federal Electorate Council.
• Member, Young Liberal State Executive (Qld) 1979-80.
• Chairman, Toowong Young Liberal Branch.
• Chairman, Taringa Liberal Party Branch.
• Member, Liberal Party State Women's Council Executive (Qld).
• Member, Liberal National Party Policy Standing Committee 2009-10.
• Secretary, Coalition Policy Committee on Communications.
• Member, Coalition Policy Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs.

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Personal

• Born 22.6.1953, Melbourne, Vic.
• Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors.
• Member, Australian Institute of Management.
• Personal Assistant to State Director, Country Party (NSW).
• Staff member to the Minister for Education, Senator the Hon. Sir JL Carrick.
• Office manager, QCOM Pty Ltd.
• Director, Brisbane Visitors and Convention Bureau.
• Business Manager, Australian Telecommunications User Group (ATUG) Queensland.
• Managing Director, Conventions Queensland.
• Member, Brisbane City Council 2000-10: Leader of the Opposition, Brisbane City Council 2007-08; Chairman, Public and Active Transport and Economic Development Committee 2010.

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Electorate

• Description: outer metropolitan.
  Location: south-western Brisbane; it includes the suburbs of Anstead, Bellbowrie, Brookfield, Chapel Hill, Chuwar, Dorrington, Enoggera, Enoggera Reservoir, Ferny Grove, Fig Tree Pocket, Gaythorne, Grovely, Indooroopilly, Ironside, Karana Downs, Kenmore, Kenmore Hills, Keperra, Kholo, Mitchelton, Moggill, Mt Coot-tha, Mt Crosby, Oxford Park, Peewee Bend, Pinjarra Hills, Priors Pocket, Pullenvale, Rainworth, Rosalie, St Johns Wood, St Lucia, Taringa, The Gap, Toowong, Torwood, Upper Brookfield, Upper Kedron and parts of Ashgrove, Auchenflower, Bardon, Paddington and Lake Manchester.
  
  Area: 441 sq km (approx.).
  Electors enrolled: 98 224 (at 21.8.10).
  Industries: retail and service industries, light industry and farming. It also includes the University of Queensland and a large portion of Brisbane Forest Park.
  State electorates: Ryan includes parts of the Queensland Legislative Assembly electorates of Ashgrove, Everton, Ferny Grove, Indooroopilly, Moggill and Mount Coot-tha.

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