Dale Shuttleworth was born on 5 August 1964 and is an Australian Liberal National politician who was the member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Ferny Grove from 2012 to 2015, having defeated the Minister of Health Geoff Wilson at the 2012 state election.
10 Facts About Dale Shuttleworth
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In 1996 Shuttleworth moved back to Queensland, and in the time since, has married and raised his three children in the local area he represented.
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Dale Shuttleworth has been a senior manager for a number of Brisbane-based companies providing technical solutions in Communications, Flow monitoring and telemetry systems or automated machine guidance and GPS collision avoidance or geo-fencing applications.
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Dale Shuttleworth was a Family First at the 2004 federal election, the 2006 state election, and the 2007 federal election.
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Dale Shuttleworth first contested Ferny Grove at the 2009 state election.
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Dale Shuttleworth lost to Labor incumbent Geoff Wilson, but reduced the Labor margin from 11 percent to four percent.
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Dale Shuttleworth scored a 14-point swing, turning Ferny Grove into a safe LNP seat.
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In May 2012, shortly after his election win, Dale Shuttleworth was appointed to the Health and Community Services Committee which includes portfolio areas of Health, Community Services, National Parks, Sport, Recreation and Racing and Aboriginal, Islander and Multi-cultural affairs.
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Dale Shuttleworth served as an advisor to the Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts as part of the portfolio backbench committee.
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Dale Shuttleworth was defeated at the 2015 state election by Labor candidate Mark Furner.