1. Warren Entsch is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland, and sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.
17 Facts About Warren Entsch
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Warren Entsch was a railway porter, maintenance fitter and welder, real estate agent, farmer, grazier, crocodile catcher and company director before entering politics.
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Warren Entsch was first elected to the House of Representatives at the March 1996 federal election.
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Warren Entsch then decided on retirement, ostensibly to spend time with his teenage son, and did not contest the November 2007 election.
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Warren Entsch remained a member of the Liberal Party of Queensland until the formation of the Liberal National Party of Queensland in 2008.
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On 10 November 2009, Warren Entsch announced that he would again run for pre-selection for the seat of Leichhardt and was re-elected to parliament at the August 2010 election defeating the man who had succeeded him in 2007, Labor incumbent Jim Turnour.
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Warren Entsch was appointed Chief Opposition Whip by then-opposition leader Tony Abbott.
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Warren Entsch played a part in deposing of Malcolm Turnbull in the 2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills.
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Warren Entsch was shortly afterwards appointed to the position of "special envoy to the Great Barrier Reef" by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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Warren Entsch was able to retain his seat at the 2022 election.
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Warren Entsch argued for the "No" case in the 2023 referendum on the Voice to Parliament.
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In local matters, Warren Entsch has proposed the sale of housing commission properties to tenants, the same mechanism by which his own parents had become home owners.
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Warren Entsch is a member of the Moderate faction of the Liberal Party.
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Warren Entsch criticised prominent Yes campaigner Noel Pearson, who he called a "crony" and rejected his large influence in local politics on the Cape York Peninsula.
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Warren Entsch has strongly prosecuted the issue of plastic pollution on the reef, asserting that climate change was not a threat to the existence of the Great Barrier Reef.
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In December 2005, Warren Entsch pledged support for a civil union scheme after Britain began granting civil partnerships.
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In September 2010 Warren Entsch indicated that he did not consider same-sex marriage an important issue and voted against the Australian Greens' 2010 motion for members of the house to poll their constituents on the issue of same-sex marriage.