Roger Price (Australian politician)

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Roger Price
Member of the Australian Parliament for Chifley
Incumbent
Assumed office  1 December 1984
Preceded by	Russell Gorman
Born	26 November 1945 (1945-11-26) (age 64) Sydney, New South Wales
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Occupation	Account manager

Leo Roger Spurway Price (born 26 November 1945) is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since the 1984 election, representing the Division of Chifley in western Sydney, New South Wales, for the Australian Labor Party.^[1]

Born in Sydney, Price was educated at the New South Wales Institute of Technology. He was an account manager with Telecom Australia before entering politics. He was an alderman on Blacktown City Council from 1981 until 1987 and served as deputy mayor in 1984-1985.

Price is currently the longest-serving Labor member in the parliament (House or Senate).

Price served as Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 4 June 1991 until 27 December 1991, when Paul Keating became Prime Minister. He then served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence until the March 1993 federal election. He was Opposition Chief Whip from 2004 until 29 November 2007, when he became the Chief Government Whip. Additionally, he has been a member of numerous Standing Committees and overseas parliamentary delegations.

Committees include: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 26 May 1993 to 31 August 2004 (Chair from 7 June 1995 to 29 January 1996); Certain Family Law Issues from 26 May 1993 (Chair from 26 May 1993) to 28 November 1995; Family and Community Affairs from 19 August 2003 to 31 August 2004; Migration from 10 May 2005 to 6 September 2005.

[edit] External links

• Personal website
• Search or browse Hansard for Roger Price at OpenAustralia.org

[edit] References

Parliament of Australia
Preceded by Russell Gorman	Member for Chifley 1984–present	Incumbent

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Persondata
NAME	Price, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Price, Leo Roger Spurway (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	26 November 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH	living
PLACE OF DEATH