11 Facts About Shane Knuth

Shane Andrew Knuth was born on 7 September 1966 and is an Australian politician.

Shane Knuth has been a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2004, representing three successive seats: Charters Towers, Dalrymple and Hill.

Shane Knuth has variously represented the National Party, the Liberal National Party and Katter's Australian Party.

Shane Knuth's brother Jeff Knuth is a former One Nation parliamentarian.

Shane Knuth entered the state parliament as the member for Charters Towers at the 2004 state election by defeating incumbent MP Christine Scott of the Labor Party on One Nation preferences.

At the 2006 state election, Shane Knuth was re-elected with a large swing, reverting Charters Towers to its traditional status as a comfortably safe National seat.

Charters Towers was abolished in a redistribution ahead of the 2009 state election, and Shane Knuth opted to contest the new seat of Dalrymple.

The new seat had a notional LNP majority of 57 percent, and Shane Knuth won with only a small swing against him.

On 30 October 2011, Shane Knuth resigned from the Liberal National Party to join Katter's Australian Party.

At the 2012 state election, despite a massive swing to the LNP statewide, Shane Knuth easily retained his seat, defeating his replacement as LNP candidate by a nearly 2-to-1 two-party margin, winning enough primary votes to retain the seat outright.

Dalrymple was abolished in a redistribution ahead of the 2017 election, and Shane Knuth transferred to Hill, essentially the northern portion of his old seat.