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Leader of the Delegation
Dr Andrew Southcott MP
Member for Boothby
Liberal Party of Australia
Dr Southcott was elected to his seat of Boothby in 1996.
He is a qualified medical practitioner and has served in
party positions including Branch President and House of
Representatives State Delegate to the State Council (SA)
1996 to the present.
Dr Southcott's previous overseas conferences delegations
and visits include - Leader of the Australian Political
Exchange delegation to Japan in October 1996; Joint
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
visit to Papua New Guinea in March 1999 and Australian
Observer Mission, Indonesian elections in May - June
1999.
He has been a member of several parliamentary committees
covering a range of portfolio areas including the
environment, recreation, the arts, economics, finance,
health, defence, foreign affairs and trade.
Apart from his medical
qualifications, Dr Southcott has an economics degree and
is currently studying for a Masters In Business
Administration.
His electorate is in southern
Adelaide and includes the suburbs of Belair, Blackwood,
Brighton, Daw Park, Eden Hills, Marion, Mitcham,
Seacliff and St Marys. The Boothby electorate contains a
range of industries including car manufacturing and
retail and service industries as well as an army camp
,and military barracks.
Deputy Leader of the Delegation
Ms Kelly Hoare, MP
Member for Charlton
Australian Labor Party
Ms Hoare was elected to represent the
seat of Charlton in 1998. Prior to that time she was
employed by the Department of Defence and then by the
Department of Employment. Her academic qualifications
include a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from the
University of Canberra.
Since her election on 3 October 1998,
Ms Hoare has been appointed as a member of the Standing
Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Affairs, and the Parliamentary Committee on the Library.
She is also a member of several Caucus Committees and
has joined a number of parliamentary groups including
the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population and
Development, Amnesty International Parliamentary Group,
Parliamentarians for a Nuclear Free Future,
Parliamentarians for Drug Law Reform and a number of
friendship groups within the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
In June 1999, she was part of the
of6cial Australian delegation of Election Observers
which travelled to Indonesia.
Her electorate of Charlton is
south-west of Newcastle and extends from Wallsend in the
north, Edgeworth and Freemans Waterhole to the west,
Charlestown to the east, and includes the north and west
Lake Macquarie centres of Cardiff, Toronto and Morisset,
extending to Wyee in the south. The major commercial
activities in the electorate are coal mining, power
generation and metal smelting.
Delegation Member
Senator Ross Lightfoot KaJ, JP
Senator for Western Australia
Liberal Party of Australia
Senator Lightfoot was chosen by the
Western Australian Parliament in May 1997 to represent
that State in the Senate, to replace J.H. Panizza
(deceased). As well, he has had extensive experience as
a State Parliamentarian being both a Member of the
Western Australian Legislative Assembly and the Western
Australian Legislative Council.
He has served on numerous Senate and
Western Australian $tate parliamentary committees that
have covered a range of portfolio areas including the
environment, communications, recreation, the arts,
finance and public administration, foreign affairs
defence and trade, community issues, electoral matters,
superannuation and competition policy He also takes a
particular interest in regional and trade issues. In
1998 he was a Member of parliamentary delegations to
Malaysia and New Zealand
Apart from being an elected
parliamentary representative, Senator Lightfoot has been
a pastoralist and grazier, been actively involved in the
mining and exploration industry, a mounted policeman and
served in the Australian armed services.
He is also a Justice of the Peace, a
National Patron of the Extremely Disabled War Ueterans'
Association of Australia and a Knight of the Order of St
John of Jerusalem 1995 and a Director of the Foreign
Advisory Board to the European Foundation (London).
Delegation Member
Mr Bernie Ripoll MP
Member for Oxley
Australian Labor Party
Mr Ripoll was born in France and was
elected as the Member for Oxley (Queensland) in 1998. He
has served in a number of party positions including
Branch President (1994-96), Branch Treasurer (1996-98)
and Branch Secretary (1 196-98) prior to being elected
to the Parliament. He was a delegate to the ALP State
Conference (Qld) in 1997.
Mr Ripoll has academic qualifications
in business marketing (Queensland Institute of
Technology) and served as an official in the State
Public Services Federation of Queensland from 1995 to
1998. Since being elected to the Federal Parliament he
has taken a particular interest in regional, migration
and public works issues.
His electorate of Oxley is centred in
south-east Queensland to the south-west of Brisbane and
includes the centres of Acacia Ridge, Goodna,
Harrisville, Ipswich, Redbank Plains, Swanbank and Wacol.
Contained in the electorate are major primary industries
such as coal mining, dairying, beef cattle as well as
other industries such as steel manufacturing and railway
workshops.
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