Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Brand, Western Australia, 2007. Re-elected 2010 and 2013. Retired prior to general elections 2016.

Ministerial appointments

• Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Northern Australia from 3.12.2007 to 9.6.2009.
• Parliamentary Secretary for Western and Northern Australia from 9.6.2009 to 14.9.2010.
• Special Minister of State from 14.9.2010 to 25.3.2013.
• Special Minister of State for the Public Service and Integrity from 14.9.2010 to 14.12.2011.
• Minister for the Public Service and Integrity from 14.12.2011 to 25.3.2013.
• Minister for Resources and Energy from 25.3.2013 to 18.9.2013.
• Minister for Tourism from 25.3.2013 to 18.9.2013.
• Minister for Small Business from 25.3.2013 to 18.9.2013.
• Cabinet Minister from 25.3.2013 to 18.9.2013.

Committee service

• Joint Select: Northern Australia served from 9.12.2013 to 9.5.2016
• Joint Standing: Electoral Matters served from 4.12.2013 to 9.5.2016

Parliamentary party positions

• Australian Labor Party. Served: 24.11.2007 to 09.05.2016
• Shadow Minister for Resources from 18.10.2013 to 4.5.2016.
• Shadow Minister for Northern Australia from 18.10.2013 to 4.5.2016.
• Shadow Special Minister of State from 18.10.2013 to 2.3.2016.
• Shadow Cabinet Minister from 18.10.2013 to 4.5.2016.

Party positions

• Member of the Australian Labor Party from 1974.
• National Organiser of the Australian Labor Party from 1986 to 1990.
• Assistant National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party, 1990.
• Director of Australian Labor Party Fundraising, 1990.
• Chair of the Australian Labor Party National Campaign Committee, 1992.
• National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party from 1993 to 2000.

Personal

• Born: 30.4.1958, Rotherham, England
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BEc (Australian National University).
• Member of the Australian Labor Party National Secretariat (ACT) from 1986 to 2000.
• Executive Director of a Medical Research Foundation from 2000 to 2001.
• Senior Executive at Woodside Energy from 2001 to 2007.

Electorate

• Name: Brand
• Location: south of Perth; it includes the centres of Kwinana and Rockingham, and parts of Mandurah.
• Area: 411 Sq km
• Electors enrolled: 99,867 (at 7.9.2013)
• Industries: heavy industry in the Kwinana industrial area, alumina refining, tourism and the naval base HMAS Stirling on Garden Island.
• Includes: Brand includes the Western Australian Legislative Assembly electorates of Kwinana, Rockingham, Warnbro and parts of Mandurah.

Honours

• Awarded the Centenary Medal, 1.1.2001.
• Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia, 26.1.2003.

Publications

• Not just for the life: Gough Whitlam remembered, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney: 2016.