Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Flynn, Queensland, 2010, 2013 and 2016.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Publications from 25.10.10 to 5.8.13; Appropriations and Administration from 4.12.13 to 9.5.16; House from 4.12.13 to 9.5.16 (Chair from 25.6.14 to 9.5.16); Petitions from 14.9.16; Employment, Education and Training from 7.11.16.
• Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 25.10.10 to 5.8.13; Treaties from 11.12.13 to 9.5.16 and from 1.9.16 to 7.11.16; Trade and Investment Growth from 14.9.16 (Chair from 14.9.16).
• Joint Select: Trade and Investment Growth from 25.9.14 to 9.5.16 (Chair from 27.11.14 to 9.5.16).

Personal

• Born 30.6.1950, Gladstone, Qld.
• Single.

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• Self-employed business owner from 1978.
• Fuel distributorship 1978-98.
• Publican 1998-2004.
• Timber and hardware merchant from 1998.
• Company director from 2006.

Electorate

Description: rural.

Location: cental western and eastern Queensland; it includes the towns of Agnes Water, Banana, Biloela, Biggenden, Blackwater, Boyne Island, Calliope, Duaringa, Eidsvold, Emerald, Gayndah, Gladstone, Gracemere, Miriam Vale, Monto, Mount Morgan, Moura, Mundubbera, Perry, Sapphire, Tannum Sands, Taroom, Theodore, Wondai and Woorabinda.

Area: 133 063 sq km.
Electors enrolled: 100 677 (at 2.7.16).
Industries: coal, oil, gas, orchards, cotton, grain, cattle and sheep and the port of Gladstone.