Mr Geoff Lyons MP – Parliament of Australia

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Member for Bass, Tasmania

Party: Australian Labor Party
Chamber: House of Representatives

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Parliament Office

PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Telephone:: (02) 6277 4735
Fax:: (02) 6277 8577

Electorate Office

(Principal Office)

100 St John Street
Launceston, TAS, 7250

Postal address
PO Box 5035
Launceston, TAS, 7250

Telephone:: (03) 6334 7033
Fax:: (03) 6334 7055

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Websites: Personal website; Party website

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www.aph.gov.au/G_Lyons_MP

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Electorate details

Bass, Tasmania

Biography

Party positions
Personal
Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament
Electorate
Honours

Parliamentary service

Elected to the House of Representatives for Bass, Tasmania, 2010.

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Parliamentary positions

Member, Speaker's Panel from 27.2.12.

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Committee service

House of Representatives Standing: Agriculture, Resources, Fisheries and Forestry from 25.10.10; Health and Ageing from 25.10.10; Privileges and Members' Interests from 25.10.10; Climate Change, Environment and the Arts from 11.10.11 to 7.2.12; Procedure from 14.3.12.

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Party positions

Member, ALP from 1971.

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Personal

Born 29.4.1953, Sydney, NSW.
Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

Clerk, Attorney-General's Dept 1971-77.
Investigations officer, Consumer Affairs Council 1977-81.
Senior Clerk, Supreme Court, Launceston 1981-82.
Government casino inspector 1982-87.
Manager, Beaconsfield District Hospital 1987-91.
Project officer, Northern Regional Health, Tasmania 1991-92.
Business manager, Launceston General Hospital 1992-98 and 2001-09.
Senior Private Secretary to the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Industrial Relations (Tas.), the Hon. PJ Patmore, MHA 1998-2001.
Electorate officer to Senator HB Polley 2009-10.

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Electorate

Description: provincial.
Location: north-east Tasmania; it includes the city of Launceston and its suburbs, and the towns of Bell Bay, Bridport, George Town, Hadspen, Lilydale, Ringarooma and Scottsdale. Cape Barren Island, Clarke Island and Flinders Island are also in this division.
Area: 7378 sq km (approx.).
Industries: aluminium and ferrous metal smelting, brewery, cattle (dairy and beef) farming, manufacturing, mining, ports and shipping, ship building, timber, tourism, fishing, wineries and wool.
State electorates: Bass is co-extensive with the Tasmanian House of Assembly electorate of the same name.

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Honours

National Emergency Service Medal 1997.
Australian Sports Medal 2000.

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