Senator Glenn Sterle

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Biography

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Parliamentary service

• Elected to the Senate for Western Australia 2004 (term began 1.7.2005) and 2010.

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Committee service

• Senate Standing: Publications from 1.7.05; Regulations and Ordinances from 1.7.05 to 13.9.05; House from 26.10.10; Privileges from 26.10.10 to 7.2.12.
• Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: Legislation and References Committees from 1.7.05 to 11.9.06 and from 14.5.09; Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport from 11.9.06 (Chair from 13.2.08) to 14.5.09; Education, Employment and Workplace Relations from 12.2.08 to 30.6.08.
• Senate Select: Agricultural and Related Industries from 14.2.08 to 23.9.10; National Broadband Network from 1.7.08 to 17.6.10; Men's Health from 27.11.08 to 29.5.09; Australia's Food Processing Sector from 1.7.11.
• Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit from 26.10.10 to 7.2.12.
• Joint Standing: Treaties from 1.7.05 to 30.6.08; Electoral Matters from 6.12.06 to 14.2.08.
• Joint Select: Australia's Immigration Detention Network from 1.7.11; Constitutional Recognition of Local Government from 1.11.12.

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Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum, Jakarta, Indonesia and bilateral visit to Papua New Guinea, January 2006.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Taiwan, September 2006.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Israel, March 2007.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to the European Institutions, April
• 2008.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Egypt and Israel, October-November 2008.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Cambodia, Malaysia and the Philippines, April-May 2009.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Singapore, January 2010.
• Study tour, USA, March 2011.
• Study tour attending International Brotherhood of Teamsters National Convention, USA, June 2011.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to New Zealand, June 2011.

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Party positions

• Member, ALP from 1991.
• Delegate, ALP State Conference (WA) from 1999.
• ALP Transport Policy Convener 2000.
• Delegate, ALP National Conference 2002 and 2004.

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Personal

• Born 3.1.1960, Melbourne, Victoria.
• Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• Furniture removalist, truck driver, owner operator 1977-91.
• Organiser, Transport Workers' Union 1991-2005.
• Branch Committee of Management, Transport Workers' Union 1991-2005.
• Federal Councillor, Transport Workers' Union 1998-2005.

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Honours

• Awarded Centenary Medal 2003.

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