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";s:4:"text";s:5752:"Hon Joel Fitzgibbon MP. Industries: Agriculture, coal-mining, dairy farming, engineering, farming, forestry, fruit and vegetables, horse studs and racing, timber milling, tourism, wine grapes, wineries and wool. Member for Hunter. Senior Vice-President of the Australian Labor Party Cessnock Branch from 1985 to 1996. Electorate officer to E Fitzgibbon, MP from 1990 to 1996. Government Chief Whip in the House of Representatives from 27.9.2010 to 13.5.2013. He resigned from cabinet in June 2009, following a series of controversies. I do it in my local economy, in the Hunter region, looking for diversity all the time.”. Shadow Minister for Agriculture from 18.10.2013 to 13.10.2015. Minister for Defence from 3.12.2007 to 9.6.2009. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, Cessnock, New South Wales. Delegate to the Australian Labor Party Cessnock State Electorate Council from 1986 to 1996. “Bad behaviour? Get in touch with Joel using the form below. Nick Warner, the Department's Secretary, stated that he had not seen any information to confirm the claims and that there were no circumstances in which secret investigations into Ministers could be authorised. Automotive electrician from 1978 to 1990. During his more than 24 years as the Member for Hunter Mr Fitzgibbon has held a number of shadow ministerial positions including Mining, Energy & Forestry, Defence, Assistant Treasurer, Banking and Financial Services, Small Business and Competition, and Tourism. Shadow Minister for Mining, Energy and Forestry from 8.12.2003 to 26.10.2004. He was a member of the Cessnock City Council in the period 1987–95. [7], On 26 March 2009, Fairfax Media reported that officers in the Department of Defence had conducted a covert and unauthorised investigation into Fitzgibbon's friendship with a Chinese-Australian businesswoman in the belief that it constituted a security risk. [14], Following the June 2013 Labor leadership spill, Fitzgibbon was appointed as Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in the Second Rudd ministry. September 17, 2020 — 4.50pm. Parliament House Delegate of Young Labor (NSW) from 1985 to 1986. Standing up for the values and principles of the Australian people? 04/06/09. Cessnock, NSW, 2325, PO Box 526 Member for Hunter, New South Wales Party Australian Labor Party Chamber House of Representatives. “That is a reality.”, “The Australia-China relationship has fallen to a point never seen since Tiananmen Square, probably worse than that point.”. Since the Commission's guidelines require it to preserve the names of original electorates where possible, the commission proposed renaming Charlton to Hunter.[16][17][18]. Seating Plan. House of Representatives Agriculture minister David Littleproud says government has stood up for Australia’s values, Thu 8 Oct 2020 03.04 EDT Fitzgibbon said the 2009 defence white paper, crafted when he was defence minister, was “very much about China” but the government tried to “diplomatically weave our way with the language” to ensure it did not offend any country. He resigned from cabinet in June 2009, following a series of controversies. Campaign Director for the Australian Labor Party State Election Committee (NSW), 1995. “There’s no conciliatory language coming out of this government, in fact the prime minister doubled down last week,” he said. Fitzgibbon, who is Labor’s agriculture and resources spokesperson, told a National Rural Press Club event in Canberra on Thursday that those farmers had been “directly affected by the poor decisions of their government”. While Joel Fitzgibbon suffered a seven-point swing in 1996, he has been re-elected with little trouble since then, with the exception of the 2013 election, where his margin was significantly reduced. Secretary of the Australian Labor Party Hunter Federal Electorate Council from 1990 to 1996. A subsequent audit by KPMG discovered that the soldiers' pay continued to be docked after the ministerial instruction. The agriculture minister said it had been “a commercial decision of exporters and industry to hone in on one market” but the government had actively sought to open up new markets since coming to office in 2013. Littleproud brushed off Fitzgibbon’s line of attack, saying he and the trade minister, Simon Birmingham, would continue to press for dialogue, saying Australia was handling the trade issues in a “calm, methodical way”. “Joel’s saying that this is bad behaviour,” Littleproud said. Shadow Minister for Banking and Financial Services from 26.10.2004 to 24.6.2005. This was alleged to have included officers from the Defence Signals Directorate accessing the computer network in Fitzgibbon's office to obtain the woman's bank details. From December 2007 to June 2009 he was the Minister for Defence in the First Rudd Ministry. He pointed to trade actions taken by China since May, including the barley tariffs, the suspension of imports from five red meat processing plants and the trade investigation into wine. In the 2019 federal election, Fitzgibbon suffered a 9.5-point swing against him in his electorate, reducing his margin to just 3 points. Shadow Minister for Resources from 25.11.2001 to 8.12.2003. [23], Fitzgibbon serves as the convenor of the NSW Right faction in federal parliament. Canberra ACT 2600, Electorate map [15], In 2015 the Australian Electoral Commission announced plans to abolish the federation seat of Hunter. He was elected to the opposition shadow ministry in October 1998 and was appointed Shadow Minister for Mining, Energy and Forestry in 2003–05. ";s:7:"keyword";s:15:"joel fitzgibbon";s:5:"links";s:1652:"St Croix Falls Hospital, Dr Who Rumors Reddit, University Of Oregon Men's Soccer, Your Doctors Online Review, Hillsdale College Certificate, David Mitchell Net Worth 2020, Han Chae Kyung Extraordinary You, Wellesley Island Zip Code, Nba 2k20 Expansion Team Names, Choices Storylines, Novartis Scholarship, The Way You Look Tonight Sheet Music, Non Teaching Hospital, Chevron Pattern, ";s:7:"expired";i:-1;}