Dave Grills

Dave Grills (born 12 April 1959) is an Australian politician. He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council as a Nationals member for Mining and Pastoral Region at the 2013 state election.

Although scheduled to take his seat on 22 May 2013, he was elected in a recount on 5 April to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wendy Duncan to contest the Legislative Assembly seat of Kalgoorlie.

Grills was born in Birmingham, the United Kingdom and arrived in Western Australia in 1965. Prior to his election, he was a Kalgoorlie-based police officer and served for a period as the Goldfields-Esperance District Crime Prevention and Diversity Officer.^[1] He also previously served as a local government councillor on two separate occasions, first at the Shire of Leonora and then the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. He is currently based in Kalgoorlie but maintains an electorate office in Esperance.

Grills has listed youth justice and the provision of greater opportunities for youth in regional and rural Western Australia among his priorities.^[2]

As a representative of the vast Mining and Pastoral electorate, Grills has criticised the use of fly-in fly-out operational workers by mining companies on the grounds that it undermines regional development efforts.^[3]

Grills has also called for a new approach to agricultural finance in Western Australia, stating that more needs to be done to ensure the financial health of the state's agricultural sector.^[4]

References

External links

• Dave Grills parliamentary biography