Grant Musgrove | |
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Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Springwood | |
In office 13 June 1998 –17 February 2001 | |
Preceded by | Luke Woolmer |
Succeeded by | Barbara Stone |
Personal details | |
Born | Grant Steven Musgrove 28 March 1968 Victoria,Australia |
Political party | Labor |
Other political affiliations | Labor |
Alma mater | Griffith University |
Occupation | Policy advisor |
Grant Steven Musgrove (born 28 March 1968) is an Australian public figure. Roles have included senior public servant in the Queensland Cabinet Office under Premier Wayne Goss,Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR),the peak industry body for the resource recovery industry,a senior university advisor,board chair and member of parliament. He is a regular media commentator and keynote speaker on resource recovery and the recycling industry internationally. [1] He was the member for Springwood in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2001,representing the Labor Party.
At Griffith University,Musgrove completed a Bachelor of Commerce,majoring in Economics,and a Bachelor of Science,(Australian Environmental Studies) majoring in Environmental Planning. He started his career as policy officer in the Department of Premier and Cabinet in 1992. In 1996,he resigned from the public service to run for a seat in parliament. [2]
In 1998,Musgrove was elected as the Labor member for Springwood. He secured the largest swing to a government member in the 1998 Queensland state election (11%) and was elected as its youngest member. His victory,on a narrow margin of 1%,enabled the formation of the first Beattie minority government. Musgrove was appointed as Chair of the Queensland Innovation Council (developing the Queensland Innovation Strategy),the Queensland Public Works Committee,Griffith University Council,member of numerous Ministerial advisory committees and as Chair and member of several Budget Estimates Committees.
Musgrove resigned from the Labor Party in December 2000,after he was scapgoated over branchstacking on the basis of his testimony to the Shepherdson Inquiry that had "probably" merely witnessed another persons electoral enrolment form. He did not contest the 2001 election while awaiting the report of a Criminal Justice Commission inquiry. The inquiry made no adverse finding of any wrongdoing,corruption or criminality by Musgrove. [3]
Musgrove went on to work as a government relations consultant then as Senior Manager and Adviser at Griffith University. He served on number of boards,councils,expert government committees and advisory boards in relation to resource recovery and resource efficiency,and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has served as a board member or advisor of the following organizations:
As a chief executive officer of ACOR,Musgrove has been a regular media commentator in The Courier-Mail ,and on ABC Television news and current affairs,discussing issues related to the recycling and the resource recovery industry.
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