Name Matt Conlan Occupation Radio announcer | Nationality Australian | |
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Full Name Matthew Escott Conlan Role Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly | ||
Matthew Escott "Matt" Conlan (born 22 August 1968) is an Australian politician. He was a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2007 to 2016, having won his seat of Greatorex in a 2007 by-election. He held several ministerial portfolios in the Mills and Giles Ministries, including Minister for Tourism, Minister for Sport, Minister for Arts and Minister for Housing. He was also the Minister for Transport and Minister for Infrastructure from December 2014. On 10 February 2015, Conlan resigned from all his cabinet positions, citing family reasons.
Prior to running for parliament, Conlan spent 16 years in commercial radio. In 2006 he won the Australian Commercial Radio Award (ACRA) for best talk presenter while working on radio 8HA in Alice Springs.