Mr Andrew Laming MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Bowman, Queensland, 2004, 2007 and 2010.

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Parliamentary appointments

• Government Representative, Australian National Commission for UNESCO from 2005.

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Communications, Information Technology and the Arts from 1.12.04 to 17.10.07; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from 28.2.06 to 19.7.10; Employment and Workplace Relations from 11.3.08 to 10.11.08.
• Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit from 1.12.04 to 17.10.07.
• Joint Standing: Treaties from 14.2.07 to 17.10.07.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Official visit to Papua New Guinea, May 2005.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to France, Belgium and Germany, April-May 2010.

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Parliamentary party positions

• Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Health Services and Indigenous Health from 14.9.10.

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Party positions

• Member, Liberal Party Kawana Branch 1993-2001.
• Member, Liberal Party Wynnum Manly Branch 2001-03.
• Member, Liberal Party Cleveland Branch from 2003.

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Personal

• Born 30.9.1966, Hobart, Tas.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• MBBS (Qld), DRCOG (London), MPubPol (NTU), MPA (Harvard), MPhil (Syd.), FRANZCO.
• Medical practitioner 1990-91 and 1993.
• Landmine clearer, rigger and gymnasium manager 1992.
• Aboriginal health researcher 1995.
• Ophthalmology registrar 1996-98.
• Senior ophthalmology registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Friends In Deed Organisation (FIDO) 1999.
• World Bank consultant and travel writer 2000.
• Health planning specialist 2001.
• Ministerial adviser 2002.
• Management consultant 2003.

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Electorate

• Description: outer metropolitan.
  Location: south-east Brisbane; it includes the suburbs of Alexandra Hills, Birkdale, Capalaba, Cleveland, Mount Cotton, Ormiston, Redland Bay, Sheldon, Thorneside, Thornlands, Victoria Point and Wellington Point. It also includes North Stradbroke Island.
  
  Area: 537 sq km (approx.).
  
  Electors enrolled: 91 892 (at 21.8.10).
  
  Industries: farming, retail, light industry and tourism.
  
  State electorates: Bowman includes the Queensland Legislative Assembly electorates of Capalaba and Cleveland, and parts of Mansfield and Redlands.

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Publications

• Lets go - Turkey (contribution, ed. ES Daniel and SK Quinlan), New York: St Martins Press, 2000.
• Founding editor, Kennedy School Review, Harvard University, 2000.

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