Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Durack, Western Australia, 2013 and 2016.

Parliamentary positions

• Member, Speaker's Panel from 12.10.15 to 9.5.16.

Ministerial appointments

• Assistant Minister for the Environment from 20.12.17.

Committee service

• House of Representatives Standing: Agriculture and Industry from 4.12.13 to 9.5.16; Indigenous Affairs from 4.12.13 to 11.11.15 and from 14.9.16 to 19.12.17 (Chair from 14.9.16 to 19.12.17); Infrastructure and Communications from 4.12.13 to 9.9.15; Social Policy and Legal Affairs from 25.9.14 to 22.2.16; Communications and the Arts from 11.11.15 to 9.5.16.
• Joint Select: Northern Australia from 9.12.13 to 9.5.16.
• Joint Standing: Treaties from 22.2.16 to 9.5.16; Public Works from 14.9.16 to 15.9.16; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 14.9.16; Northern Australia from 14.9.16.
• House Select Committee on Regional Development and Decentralisation from 13.6.17.

Personal

• Born 12.12.1963, Kalgoorlie, WA.
• Partner.

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• LLB(Hons)(South Bank University, London).
• GradDipLaw (UWA).
• Solicitor in private practice 1997-2002.
• General Counsel and Business Development Manager, CBH Group 2002-08.
• Vice-President, Legal and Business Development, Crosslands Resources Ltd 2008-12.
• Non-Executive Director, Cancer Council (WA), until 2016.
• Non-Executive Director, BrightSpark Foundation, until 2016.

Electorate

Description: rural.
Location: northern Western Australia; it includes the Cities of Greater Geraldton and Karratha and the Shires of Broome, Carnarvon, Cunderdin, Dandaragan, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Goomalling, Narembeen, Quairading, Sandstone, Shark Bay, Victoria Plains, Wiluna and Yilgarn.
Area: 1 629 858 sq km, the largest electorate in Australia.
Electors enrolled: 97 294 (at 2.7.16).
Industries: fishing, agriculture, mining and tourism.