Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Braddon, Tasmania, 2004. Defeated at general elections, 2007.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Publications served from 1.12.2004 to 17.10.2007; Employment, Workplace Relations and Workforce Participation served from 1.12.2004 to 17.10.2007
• Joint Statutory: Corporations and Financial Services served from 11.8.2005 to 17.10.2007

Parliamentary party positions

• Liberal Party of Australia. Served: 09.10.2004 to 24.11.2007

Party positions

• Member of the Liberal Party (Tas.) from 1999.
• Vice-President of Liberal Party local branch from 2001.

Personal

• Born: 31.12.1958, Latrobe, Australia
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Single

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• Trade Certificate in Carpentry and Joinery.
• BEd (University of Tasmania).
• DipT (Tasmanian State Institute of Technology).
• Tasmanian Teachers' Certificate.
• Carpenter and joiner from 1975 to 1983.
• Secondary school teacher from 1986 to 1988.
• Business and financial consultant from 1988 to 2004.

Electorate

• Name: Braddon
• Location: north-west Tasmania; it includes the cities of Burnie and Devonport, and the towns of Currie, Latrobe, Penguin, Port Sorell, Smithton, Stanley, Ulverstone, Waratah and Wynyard. It also includes King Island.
• Area: 11,760 Sq km
• Electors enrolled: 69,988 (at 9.10.2004)
• Industries: forestry, fishing, kelp harvesting, dairying, cheese, beef cattle production, vegetable growing and processing, poppies, pyrethrum, sawmills, paper mills, weaving mills, lead, zinc, iron ore, manufacturing, wind industry, telecommunications, ports, airports and tourism.
• Includes: Braddon is co-extensive with the Tasmanian House of Assembly electorate of the same name.