Mr Stuart Robert MP

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

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

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Committee service

• Joint Statutory: Corporations and Financial Services from 11.3.08 to 19.7.10; Public Accounts and Audit from 11.3.08 to 3.2.10.
• Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 11.3.08.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Timor-Leste, August 2009.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to United Arab Emirates, May 2011.
• Official visits to France, July 2011; Malaysia and Singapore, February 2012.

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Parliamentary party positions

• Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence from 8.12.09 to 14.9.10.
• Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 14.9.10. Shadow Minister for Defence, Science, Technology and Personnel from 14.9.10.

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Party positions

• Secretary, Liberal Party Fadden Federal Electorate Council 2005-08.
• Chair, Liberal Party Labrador-Parkwood Branch 2007-08.

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Personal

• Born 11.12.1970, Cranburn, Victoria.
• Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BA(Hons) (UNSW - ADFA), MBA (Central Queensland), MIT (QUT).
• Graduate Diploma in Information Analysis.
• Army officer.
• Chief Executive Officer, GMT Recruitment 1999-2007.

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Electorate

• Location: south east Queensland; it includes the suburbs of Alberton, Arundel, Biggera Waters, Coombabah, Coomera, Gaven, Gilberton, Helensvale, Hollywell, Hope Island, Jacobs Well, Labrador, Molendinar, Norwell, Paradise Point, Parkwood, Runaway Bay, Stapylton, Steiglitz, Woongoolba and parts of Ormeau, Oxenford, Pacific Pines, Pimpama and Southport. It also includes South Stradbroke Island.
  
  Area: 395 sq km (approx.).
  
  Electors enrolled: 85 236 (at 21.8.10).
  
  Industries: tourism, market gardens, sugar cane farming, and light industry including boat building.
  
  State electorates: Fadden includes the Queensland Legislative Assembly electorate of Broadwater, and parts of Albert, Coomera, Gaven and Southport.
  Description: outer metropolitan.

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Publications

• The trial of Lt Gen Tamura - a question of command responsibility: Stuart Robert, 1992.
• Hope - The Watoto Journey: Stuart Robert, 2006.

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