Greg Piper | |
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32nd Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office 9 May 2023 | |
Preceded by | Jonathan O'Dea |
5th Assistant Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly | |
In office 15 February 2022 –9 May 2023 | |
Preceded by | Mark Coure |
Succeeded by | Jason Yat-Sen Li |
Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Lake Macquarie | |
Assumed office 24 March 2007 | |
Preceded by | Jeff Hunter |
Personal details | |
Born | Gregory Michael Piper 31 August 1957 Coffs Harbour,New South Wales |
Nationality | Australian |
Political party | Independent |
Spouse | Lyn Piper |
Residence | Mirrabooka [1] |
Gregory Michael Piper (born 31 August 1957 in Coffs Harbour,New South Wales)[ citation needed ] is an Australian politician,who is an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly,representing Lake Macquarie since 2007. Piper was mayor of City of Lake Macquarie between 2004 and 2012,before the enactment of the Local Government Amendment (Members of Parliament) Act,2012 (NSW) preventing dual membership of state parliament and local council.
Piper grew up in the Lake Macquarie suburb of Kahibah.[ citation needed ] He has three children and five grandchildren.[ citation needed ] In his teenage years,he attended St Pius X high school in Adamstown. When Piper finished school he worked in Steelworks for a year. When he did not see a future there he took a nursing job at Morisset Hospital,where he worked for 26 years. [2] He now lives on the Morisset Peninsula in Mirrabooka,near the Westlakes suburb of Morisset,with his wife Lyn. [3]
Piper was first elected to the City of Lake Macquarie Council in 1991 as an independent councillor and was deputy mayor through 2000. He sat on and chaired numerous council and state government committees. Piper held the position of chair of the Lake Macquarie Estuary Management Committee and the Lake Macquarie Project Management Committee since the establishment of each. He was also on the Hunter Waste Management and Planning Board for a number of years including a period as chair. [3] He was directly elected as the mayor of Lake Macquarie in March 2004 and again in September 2008,where he received 60% of the first-preference vote. [4]
Piper was elected as the member for Lake Macquarie at the 2007 general election. He has sat on the Legislative Assembly's Broadband Committee and currently is a member of the Natural Resources Committee (Climate Change). [3]
He was overwhelmingly reelected in the 2019 New South Wales state election,winning by a two-candidate vote of 72.6% against Labor's Jo Smith. [5] Having been reelected at the 2023 election with a first-preference vote of over 58%, [6] he accepted the offer of the minority Labor government to become Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. [7]
According to his web site,he is "left leaning,socially progressive,fiscally cautious,pragmatic,swinging voter;and staunchly Independent." [8]
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