Timothy Raphael Storer is a former Australian politician who served as a Senator for South Australia from February 2018 to June 2019.
16 Facts About Tim Storer
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Tim Storer had been ranked below Kakoschke-Moore on the Nick Xenophon Team's ticket at the 2016 federal election.
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Tim Storer sat in the Senate as an independent and did not recontest his seat at the 2019 election.
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Timothy Raphael Storer was born in Loxton, South Australia, one of five children of GP Brian Storer and school teacher Jennifer Storer.
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Tim Storer studied economics at the University of Adelaide and was dux of his cohort in the Master of Business Administration at the Australian National University.
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Tim Storer was active in state branches of the Australia China Business Council and the Australian Republic Movement.
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From 1996 Tim Storer was a member of the ALP in New South Wales for more than five years before his membership lapsed in 2002.
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Tim Storer rejoined the party's Adelaide branch in South Australia in 2013, but quit his party membership in 2015.
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Tim Storer was the Nick Xenophon Team's fourth and final Senate candidate in South Australia at the 2016 election, which saw the three NXT candidates above Storer elected, two of whom resigned in late 2017.
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When party leader Nick Xenophon resigned in October 2017, intending to appoint staffer Rex Patrick as his successor, Tim Storer wrote to the Parliament of South Australia claiming he held the right to fill the casual vacancy.
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One week later, Tim Storer withdrew the challenge and resigned from the party.
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The High Court of Australia held that she was invalidly elected, but delayed announcing her successor since the only other candidate on the party list, Tim Storer, had left the party.
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Tim Storer did not support the Coalition's proposed corporate tax cut, later saying that one of his key goals was to increase the Newstart Allowance.
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Tim Storer launched and chaired a parliamentary committee into electric vehicles in Australia, reporting bi-partisan agreed recommendations.
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Tim Storer introduced Private Senators Bills on Establishment of Social Security Commission, Improving Energy Efficiency in Rental Properties, EPBC Great Australian Bight, and Appointment of ABC Directors.
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Tim Storer served on the Select Committee into the Obesity Epidemic and other Senate Inquiries on corporate tax proposals, personal income tax proposals, the ABC's governance and allegations of political interference, Australia's energy system, and the Murray Darling Basin Plan.