Personal: |
Born 1949 at Casino
Married to Deborah
Has three adult sons |
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Education: |
St. Mary’s Primary School Marist Brothers |
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Employment: |
1966-69 |
Rural Bank of NSW |
1969-71 |
Auctioneer with T&W McCormack |
1971-76 |
Auctioneer with Barnes & Clark |
1976-92 |
Established George & Fuhrmann Pty Ltd Stock & Station and Real Estate Agents |
1980-99 |
Director of the Northern Co-operative Meat Company Ltd |
1987-90 |
President of the Stock & Station Agents Association of NSW |
1988-90 |
Vice-President of the National Body of the Australian Council of Livestock Agents |
1992-98 |
Licensee of the Hotel Cecil Casino |
1997-99 |
Manager of The Oakes Hotel, Lismore |
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Community Service: |
1982-90 |
Inaugural Chairman of Casino Beef Week Promotion Committee |
1989 |
Casino Apex Citizen of the Year and Casino Council’s Australia Day Award |
1989-91 |
President Casino RSM Rugby League Football Club |
1994-99 |
Director of the Northern Regional Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter |
1995-97 |
Chairman of Liquor Consultative Committee Casino |
1997-98 |
President of Casino Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc. |
199-99 |
Representative on Northern Rivers Area Consultative Committee |
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National Party: |
Joined in 1969 |
Member of Legislative Assembly - Lismore Electorate 27 March 1999 |
Deputy Whip – March 2002 |
Spokesperson on Rural Crime |
Spokesperson on Energy and Ports in the Lower House |
Party Whip – March 2003 |
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Electorate Description: |
Rural. |
Located within Richmond Tweed Statistical Agricultural Subdivision. |
Area: 8,691km˛ |
Principal centres: City of Lismore and Murwillumbah and towns of, Kyogle, Nimbin, Bonalbo, Woodenbong, Urbenville. |
Villages of Dunoon, Wiangaree, Grevillia, Old Grevillia, The Channon, Rosebank, Bexhill, Clunes, Federal, Old Bonalbo, Eltham, Legume, Tyalgum, Uki. |
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Parliamentary Service: |
Appointed Temporary Speaker of the Legislative Assembly – May 2007 |
Charter Member & Current President of NSW Parliamentary Lions Club |
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Backbench Committees: |
National Party Agricultural |
National Party Small Business |
Coalition Advisory Social Development |
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Joint Parliamentary Committees: |
House Committee |
Victims Compensation Standing Committee |
STAYSAFE Committee |
Joint Select Committee on Tobacco Smoking |
Standing Committee on Natural Resource Management (Climate Change) |
