Steve Wettenhall

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Steve Wettenhall
Member of the Parliament of Queensland for Barron River
In office
9 September 2006 – 24 March 2012
Preceded by Lesley Clark
Succeeded by Michael Trout
Personal details
Political party Australian Labor Party

Stephen Peter Arthur Wettenhall (born 15 February 1963) was the Australian Labor Party Member of the Parliament of Queensland for Barron River. He was first elected in the 2006 Queensland state election, and was defeated in the 2012 state election.

Politics

Born in Melbourne, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts and Laws at Monash University where he was politically active on campus and was elected by the student body as Chair of the Monash Association of Students. He established his own legal firm in Cairns in 1993. For the next 13 years he specialised in criminal defence advocacy. His firm expanded and accepted instructions in a wide variety of matters including criminal injuries compensation and discrimination and employment cases. He also continued to represent indigenous clients in Cape York and was retained periodically by Aboriginal legal services in the Torres Strait, Gulf of Carpentaria, Mount Isa and Cairns to represent their clients. He takes a very strong and active interest in environment and conservation issues and has served two terms as President of the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre. In February 2011, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary assisting the Premier and for Economic Development in the Far North

State committee service

Wettenhall was a member of the panel of temporary Speakers, the Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee, and the Investigation into Altruistic Surrogacy Select Committee. He also sat on various the Parliamentary Caucus Committees.

He was also a member of the Regional Queensland Council reporting to the Minister for Communities. In this role he was an ex officio member of the FNQ Regional Disability Council, a ministerial advisory body, and also chairs the FNQ Ministerial Regional Community Forums.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Stephen Peter Arthur Wettenhall". Retrieved 2 February 2009. 
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