John Woodley was born on Brisbane, Queensland, 9 February 1938 and is an ordained Uniting Church minister and was a Senator representing the state of Queensland, Australia, in the Australian Senate.
14 Facts About John Woodley
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John Woodley was educated at the Melbourne College of Divinity and Brisbane College of Theology.
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John Woodley served as Director of Social Responsibility in the Uniting Church, Queensland Synod, from 1977 to December 1984 and was very active fighting for justice during the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era in Queensland.
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John Woodley was a member of the Uniting Church in Australia's National Social Justice Committee between 1977 and 1982.
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John Woodley officially retired as a Uniting Church minister on the grounds of age on 1 September 2001.
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John Woodley was elected in March 1993 as the second Australian Democrats Senator for Queensland to a term commencing on 1 July 1993.
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John Woodley was for a time the Democrats' spokesperson on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Family Services, Regional Development and Agriculture.
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John Woodley resigned from the Senate in August 2001 with three years to run in his second term, not long after the party's members voted for Natasha Stott Despoja to replace Meg Lees as the Parliamentary Leader of the Democrats.
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John Woodley made several public statements about Democrats' internal politics, consistently voicing support for former Leader Meg Lees.
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John Woodley left the Democrats not long after retiring from the Senate and soon joined the Australian Progressive Alliance, the breakaway party set up by Meg Lees after she resigned from the Democrats.
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John Woodley served as the National President of this Party, which wound up after unsuccessfully contesting the 2004 federal election.
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In 2006, John Woodley became a founding Patron of the Global Cabin Air Quality Executive, a position he still holds today.
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John Woodley is featured in the documentary 2010 Broken Wings and the 2015 feature film A Dark Reflection.
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In retirement, John Woodley continues to be active in church circles in Queensland.