Paul Martin Scarr was born on 20 August 1969 and is an Australian politician and lawyer who was elected as a Senator for Queensland at the 2019 federal election.
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Paul Scarr is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.
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Paul Scarr served his articles of clerkship at Allens in Brisbane, before joining the firm as a solicitor in 1994.
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Paul Scarr was a senior associate with the firm's Papua New Guinea division from 1999 to 2001.
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In 2007, Paul Scarr was appointed general counsel and company secretary of PanAust Limited, an Australian company with mining operations in Laos.
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Paul Scarr joined the Liberal Party in 1987 and held office in the Young Liberals.
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Paul Scarr was chairman of the party's Hawken Drive branch from 1997 to 1999.
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In July 2018, Paul Scarr won LNP preselection as the lead candidate on the party's Senate ticket in Queensland.
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At the 2019 federal election, Paul Scarr was elected to a six-year term beginning on 1 July 2019.
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Paul Scarr has served on various Senate committees, including as chair of the economics references and the legal and constitutional affairs references committees.
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In July 2022, following the Coalition's defeat at the 2022 federal election, Paul Scarr was appointed as a deputy opposition whip.
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Paul Scarr is currently serving on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services.
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Paul Scarr is a member of the Centrist faction of the Liberal Party, after previously being aligned with the Centre-Right faction of the Liberal Party.