Mr Graham Perrett MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

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

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Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Legal and Constitutional Affairs from 19.2.08 to 19.7.10; Primary Industries and Resources from 19.2.08 to 19.7.10; Employment and Workplace Relations from 24.6.09 to 19.7.10; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from 25.10.10; Social Policy and Legal Affairs from 25.10.10; Education and Employment from 13.2.13.
• Joint Standing: Parliamentary Library from 19.2.08 to 19.7.10; National Broadband Network from 22.3.2011; Human Rights from 6.2.13.
• Joint Select: Cyber-Safety from 18.3.10; Christmas Island Tragedy from 22.3.11 to 29.6.11.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Malaysia and Thailand, August 2008.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to New Zealand, March 2011.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to France, Belgium and Israel, April-May 2012.

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Party positions

• Secretary, Bardon-Rainworth Branch, ALP 1997-2002.
• Proxy Delegate, ALP State Conference (Qld) 2004-06.
• Delegate, ALP National Conference 2004 and 2007.
• Member, ALP Administrative Committee 2004-07.
• President, ALP Salisbury Branch 2005-07.

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Personal

• Born 5.1.1966, St George, Qld.
• Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BA(Hons) (Qld), LLB (QUT).
• DipT (Brisbane College of Advanced Education).
• Secondary school teacher 1986-97.
• Solicitor 1997-2000.
• Organiser, Queensland Independent Education Union (QIEU) 2000-04.
• Senior policy adviser, Queensland State Government 2005-07.
• Policy adviser 2007.

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Electorate

• Description: inner metropolitan.
  Location: southern Brisbane; it includes the suburbs of Acacia Ridge, Archerfield, Chelmer, Coopers Plains, Corinda, Fairfield, Graceville, Kuraby, Macgregor, Moorooka, Nathan, Oxley, Robertson, Rocklea, Runcorn, Salisbury, Sherwood, Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills, Tennyson, Willawong, Yeerongpilly and Yeronga and parts of Algester, Annerley, Eight Mile Plains and Tarragindi.
  
  Area: 111 sq km (approx.).
  
  Electors enrolled: 92 733 (at 21.8.10).
  
  Industries: light industrial and commercial activities.
  
  State electorates: Moreton includes parts of the Queensland Legislative Assembly electorates of Inala, Indooroopilly, Mount Ommaney, South Brisbane, Stretton, Sunnybank and Yeerongpilly.

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