William George "Bill" O'Chee is an Australian politician.
22 Facts About Bill O'Chee
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Bill O'Chee was a National Party member of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 1999, representing the state of Queensland.
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Bill O'Chee attended school at Belmont State School, The Southport School and Brisbane State High School in Australia, as well as Oakham School in England.
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Bill O'Chee later studied jurisprudence at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Amanda Pullinger, Guy Spier and David Cameron.
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Bill O'Chee was appointed to the Senate in 1990 to a casual vacancy caused by the resignation of John Stone.
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Bill O'Chee was one of the first ethnic-Chinese Australians to become a member of the Parliament of Australia.
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Bill O'Chee was elected in his own right at the 1993 election, but lost his seat at the 1998 election, his term ending on 30 June 1999.
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Bill O'Chee was National Party whip in the Senate from 1993 to 1999, and chairman of the Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Policy Committee.
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Bill O'Chee believed that native title over pastoral and mining leases should have been extinguished in their entirety but wished, in return, to grant freehold title to aboriginal claimants who succeeded in proving their claim over vacant crown land.
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Bill O'Chee's proposals were not accepted by Howard, although he did win significant concessions for pastoral landholders.
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Bill O'Chee had been sued by a plaintiff wishing to gain discovery of his constituency files.
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Bill O'Chee refused to hand over the files, on the basis that they contained confidential information given to him by persons who wished to remain anonymous.
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Bill O'Chee was ordered to produce the files, but appealed to the Court of Appeal of Queensland, which held that communications between a parliamentarian and constituents were covered under parliamentary privilege and, as such, were entitled to confidentiality.
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In November 2011, Bill O'Chee alleged that in 1998, News Limited had attempted to bribe him to cross the floor and vote in their financial interests.
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Bill O'Chee coxed the Oxford University lightweight rowing crew in 1987.
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Bill O'Chee later coached schoolgirls rowing in Canberra during the 1990s.
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Later, Bill O'Chee represented Australia in the sport of skeleton from 1989 to 2002 at World Cup and World Championship races.
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Bill O'Chee was the first Australian to achieve a "top half" finish in a world championship in bobsleigh, skeleton or luge.
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Bill O'Chee achieved a number of top 20 finishes in World Cup races.
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Bill O'Chee is a National Councillor of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, and a former National Councillor of Scouts Australia.
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Bill O'Chee has been a Patron of the Australian Chinese Ex-Services National Reunion.
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Bill O'Chee was named as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1994.