Biography for STERLE, GlennSenator for Western Australia
Australian Labor Party
Parliamentary Service
Elected to the Senate for Western Australia 2004 (term began 1.7.2005) and 2010.
Committee Service
Senate Standing: Publications from 1.7.05; Regulations and Ordinances from 1.7.05 to 13.9.05; House from 26.10.10; Privileges from 26.10.10 to 7.2.12.
Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport: Legislation and References Committees from 1.7.05 to 11.9.06 and from 14.5.09; Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport from 11.9.06 (Chair from 13.2.08) to 14.5.09; Education, Employment and Workplace Relations from 12.2.08 to 30.6.08.
Senate Select: Agricultural and Related Industries from 14.2.08 to 23.9.10; National Broadband Network from 1.7.08 to 17.6.10; Men's Health from 27.11.08 to 29.5.09; Australia's Food Processing Sector from 1.7.11.
Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit from 26.10.10 to 7.2.12.
Joint Standing: Treaties from 1.7.05 to 30.6.08; Electoral Matters from 6.12.06 to 14.2.08.
Joint Select: Australia's Immigration Detention Network from 1.7.11; Constitutional Recognition of Local Government from 1.11.12.
Conferences, Delegations and Visits
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum, Jakarta, Indonesia and bilateral visit to Papua New Guinea, January 2006.
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Taiwan, September 2006.
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Israel, March 2007.
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to the European Institutions, April 2008.
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Egypt and Israel, October-November 2008.
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Cambodia, Malaysia and the Philippines, April-May 2009.
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Singapore, January 2010.
Study tour, USA, March 2011.
Study tour attending International Brotherhood of Teamsters National Convention, USA, June 2011.
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to New Zealand, June 2011.
Party Positions
Member, ALP from 1991.
Delegate, ALP State Conference (WA) from 1999.
ALP Transport Policy Convener 2000.
Delegate, ALP National Conference 2002 and 2004.
Personal
Born 3.1.1960, Melbourne, Victoria.
Married.
Qualifications and Occupation before entering Federal Parliament
Furniture removalist, truck driver, owner operator 1977-91.
Organiser, Transport Workers' Union 1991-2005.
Branch Committee of Management, Transport Workers' Union 1991-2005.
Federal Councillor, Transport Workers' Union 1998-2005.
Honours
Awarded Centenary Medal 2003.