Nationality Australian Genre Cooking | Name Kate Lamont Role Author | |
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Occupation Cook, political aspirant, author, businesswoman. Books Celebrating, Wine and Food, Kate Lamont, A Year in the Kitchen with Kate, We can achieve | ||
Kate lamont birds of brooklyn
Kate Lamont (born 1962) is an Australian cook, political aspirant and author.
Contents
- Kate lamont birds of brooklyn
- Career
- Empire Beer Group Limited
- Labor Party Appointments
- Liberal Party Candidate
- Books and media
- References
Career
Lamont has hospitality interest in the Swan Valley, Margaret River and a bottle shop and bar in Cottesloe, Western Australia.
Empire Beer Group Limited
In October 2006, Lamont was an inaugural Director of the Empire Beer Group Limited, which ran pubs, brewed beers. Lamont featured in its public prospectus which aimed to raise $10,000,000 AU by way of the issue of shares at an issue price of $0.35 each.
By December 2007 the stock was trading at $0.16, by July 2008 the stock was trading at $0.05 and by 9 February it was trading atP $0.03, a $9 million reduction on the original $10 million raised capital.
On 18 March 2009, Kate Lamont resigned as a non-executive director of Empire.
Labor Party Appointments
Lamont was appointed as a Board member of Tourism WA Board of Commissioners in 2004, by the Gallop Labor Government and Chairman of Tourism WA by then Labor Tourism Minister Mark McGowan and the WA Labor Government from 1 September 2006 for a 5-year term.
Lamont was appointed as a board member of Tourism Australia by the Rudd Labor Government and in July 2010 was appointed Deputy Chair of Tourism Australia by Federal Labor Minister Martin Ferguson
Liberal Party Candidate
In April 2012 WA Premier Colin Barnett confirmed that he had discussed pre-selection for the Liberal Party for the State Seat of Churchlands with Lamont and his media advisor Dixie Marshall and subsequently sought an extension of the nomination period to allow the nomination to occur. A story in the West Australian on 3 May 2012 suggested the nomination was causing a revolt in Liberal ranks with Party sources questioning how close Lamont was to Labor State and Federal Figures.