Preceded by Ted Lindsay Succeeded by Ewen Jones Name Peter Lindsay | Occupation Journalist Nationality Australian | |
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Born 4 May 1944 (age 79)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ( 1944-05-04 ) Political party Liberal Party of Australia Role Member of the Australian House of Representatives Party Liberal Party of Australia Office Member of the Australian Parliament since 1996 | ||
UChicago Architecture: Landscape Architecture at the University of Chicago, Peter Lindsay Schaudt
Peter John Lindsay (born 4 May 1944), Australian politician, was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 to July 2010, representing the Division of Herbert, Queensland. In January 2007 he was appointed to the position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Defence in the Howard Government. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and was a television station production manager and General Manager of Townsville Television from 1972 to 1996 before entering politics. He was a member of the City of Townsville City Council from 1985 to 1996.
In January 2010, Lindsay announced he would not contest the 2010 federal election. Then in 2011, Lindsay became a strategic advisor for Origin Net, a telecommunications company headquartered in Sydney and in 2012, Lindsay was appointed as the Chairman of Guildford Coal. In 2014, Lindsay accepted the appointment of Deputy Chancellor James Cook University. In 2016, Peter was awarded the medal of the Order of Australia.