Luke Xavier Linton Simpkins was born on 8 June 1964 and is a former Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2016.
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Luke Simpkins represented the Division of Cowan in Western Australia for the Liberal Party.
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Luke Simpkins has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales and a Graduate Certificate in Security Management from Edith Cowan University.
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Luke Simpkins was a member of the Australian Federal Police from 1986 to 1987, an army officer from 1988 to 2002, a security consultant 2003 to 2004 and 2007, and a ministerial adviser from 2005 to 2006.
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Luke Simpkins's army service included a stint as a cadet at the Royal Military College, Duntroon from 1988 to 1989, and as an officer in the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police from 1989 to 2002; when he resigned in 2002, he was a commissioned officer with the rank of major.
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Luke Simpkins is a former Australian and State representative in the sport of rowing, having won two national and six state championships.
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Luke Simpkins first attempted to enter politics in 2004, contesting the seat of Cowan at the 2004 federal election for the Liberal Party against veteran Labor incumbent Graham Edwards.
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On 6 February 2015 Luke Simpkins announced that he would move a motion, at a meeting of the party room, for a spill of the federal Liberal Party's leadership positions.
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Luke Simpkins joined in the campaign targeting Aly for her previous work in counter-terrorism, despite having written to her, in 2015 before she was a Labor candidate, to convey his admiration for her work including the "content of your media interviews and approach to the threat of radicalisation".
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Luke Simpkins was one of six Liberal MPs to leave the house in protest to the apology to the Stolen Generations.
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Luke Simpkins declared that he worried "that it could lock in negativity about the future", that indigenous people were no longer denied employment opportunities, and that he would "again back children being taken in this situation".
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Luke Simpkins has supported sleep deprivation torture as a means of gaining information, and he opposes same-sex marriage.
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In 2017, after his defeat, Luke Simpkins reportedly joined Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives party.