Parliamentary Service |
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MLC |
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Liberal
President O’Connor Division
Member State Council and State Executive |
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22 May 2009 |
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Agricultural |
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Electorates
- MLC for Agricultural Region from 22 May 2009. Elected to the Thirty-Eighth Parliament for the Agricultural Region on 6 September 2008 for term commencing 22 May 2009. Re-elected 2013 and 2017 for term commencing 22 May. Defeated 13 March 2021.
Office
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Minister for Transport, Fisheries from 21 March 2013 to 11 December 2013
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Minister for Transport from 11 December 2013 to 10 March 2014
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Transport, State Development, Science from 10 March 2014 to 17 March 2014
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport, Finance from 17 March 2014 to 8 December 2014
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport from 8 December 2014 to 31 March 2016
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture and Food; Transport from 31 March 2016 to 23 September 2016
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for State Development; Transport; Innovation from 23 September to 17 March 2017
- Shadow Minister for Regional Development; Royalties for Regions from 25 March 2017 to 27 June 2019
- Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food; Regional Development; Royalties for Regions 27 June 2019 to 23 July 2019
- Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food; Regional Development; Royalties for Regions; Fisheries 24 July 2019 to 13 July 2020
Committees
- Member, Standing Committee on Public Administration from 4 June 2009 to 30 January 2013
- Member, Joint Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation from 4 June 2009 to 14 December 2012
- Member, Parliamentary Services Committee from 22 May 2013 to 21 May 2017
- Member, Joint Standing Committee on the Corruption and Crime Commission from 24 May 2017 to 21 May 2021
- Deputy Chair, Joint Standing Committee on the Corruption and Crime Commission from 21 June 2017 to 21 May 2021
- Substitute Member, Standing Committee on Legislation; Inquiry into the Animal Welfare Amendment Bill 2017 from 21 March 2018 to 28 June 2018
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Personal Information |
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4 October 1952 |
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Sale, Victoria, Australia |
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Arrived in Western Australia, 1959 |
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Son of Charles Edward Chown, farmer, and Jean Audrey Bell, registered nurse |
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Married 20 August 1977, Perth, WA to Susan Robyn Allen, daughter of Jack Sydney Allen and Dorothy Irene May Gardiner
Children: three daughters |
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Not stated |
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Dalwallinu Primary School and Aquinas College
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Farmer |
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Farmer in Dalwallinu where family has occupied farms since 1908 |
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Member, Dalwallinu Hospital Board
President, Dalwallinu Parents and Citizens
Member, Council Dalwallinu High School
Secretary, Aged Care Committee |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 45.
Inaugural speech Western Australian Parliamentary Debates 24 June 2009, p. 5405–5408.
Parliament of Western Australia website. Current Members. Accessed 20 May 2015. |
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