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Title

Biography for MOORE, Claire Mary

Database

Biographies

Date

27-02-2013

Source

Parliamentary Library

Current member

Yes

State

QLD

Electorate

 

System Id

handbook/allmps/00AOQ


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MOORE, Claire MaryBiography for MOORE, Claire Mary

Senator for Queensland

Australian Labor Party


Parliamentary Service

Elected to the Senate for Queensland 2001 (term began 1.7.2002) and 2007.


Parliamentary Positions

Temporary Chair of Committees from 17.11.04.


Committee Service

Senate Standing: Publications from 1.7.02 to 1.7.05; Regulations and Ordinances from 1.7.02 to 1.7.05 and from 14.2.08.

Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Community Affairs: References Committee from 1.7.02 (Chair from 1.7.05) to 11.9.06 and from 14.5.09 and Legislation Committee from 1.12.04 to 11.9.06 and from 14.5.09 (Chair from 14.5.09); Community Affairs from 11.9.06 (Chair from 13.2.08) to 14.5.09; Finance and Public Administration: References Committee from 25.6.03 to 11.9.06; Finance and Public Administration from 11.9.06 to 14.5.09.

Senate Select: Lindeberg Grievance from 1.4.04 to 16.11.04; Administration of Indigenous Affairs from 18.11.04 to 8.3.05; Mental Health from 10.3.05 to 28.4.06; Housing Affordability in Australia from 14.2.08 to 16.6.08; Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities from 19.3.08 to 24.9.10; Reform of the Australian Federation from 30.9.10 to 30.6.11.

Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit from 1.7.02 to 19.11.02 and from 1.4.04 to 10.5.06.

Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 1.7.05.


Conferences, Delegations and Visits

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to East Timor, April 2007.

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to New Zealand, April 2008.

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Austria, Serbia and Switzerland, October 2008.

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Vietnam and Laos, January 2009.

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Tonga and Vanuatu, July-August 2009.

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Rwanda and Tanzania, September-October 2009.

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Ethiopia, April 2011.

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to the Solomon Islands and Samoa, July-August 2011.

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Timor-Leste, April 2012.

Member, Parliamentary Delegation to the Philippines, Laos and Burma, June 2012.


Party Positions

Member, ALP from 1996.


Personal

Born 19.2.1956, Toowoomba, Qld.

Single.


Qualifications and Occupation before entering Federal Parliament

Public servant 1980-94.

State Secretary, Community and Public Sector Union (Qld) 1994-2001.