Milton Dick

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Milton Dick
MP
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Oxley
Assumed office
2 July 2016
Preceded byBernie Ripoll
Leader of the Opposition
of Brisbane City Council
In office
1 May 2012 – 19 March 2016
Preceded byShayne Sutton
Succeeded byPeter Cumming
Brisbane City Councillor for
Richlands Ward
In office
15 March 2008 – 19 March 2016
Preceded byLes Bryant
Succeeded byCharles Strunk
Secretary of the Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
In office
4 April 2004 – 15 March 2008
Preceded byCameron Milner
Succeeded byAnthony Chisholm
Personal details
Born (1972-07-21) 21 July 1972 (age 49)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Political partyAustralian Labor Party
RelationsCameron Dick (brother)
Alma materUniversity of Queensland
Websitewww.miltondick.com.au

Dugald Milton Dick (born 21 July 1972) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Queensland seat of Oxley in the House of Representatives since the 2016 federal election. He previously served on the Brisbane City Council (2008–2016) and as ALP state secretary (2004–2008). He is the brother of Queensland state government minister Cameron Dick.

Early life[]

Dick was born in Brisbane on 21 July 1972,[1] the son of Joan and Allan Dick. His father was a World War II naval veteran and subsequently established a chain of butcher's shops in Brisbane's southern suburbs, while his mother was a midwife.[2] He attended the Anglican Church Grammar School and holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland.[1]

Politics[]

Dick joined the ALP at the age of 18 as a university student and served as national president of Young Labor.[2] He worked as an electorate officer for David Beddall (1993–1998) and Senator John Hogg (1998–2000) and subsequently as an ALP organiser. Dick was appointed as the party's state secretary and campaign director in 2004, having served as a delegate to the national conference since 2001.[1] He led the party's successful campaign in Queensland at the 2007 federal election. He announced his resignation in December 2007 to stand for political office, effective in March 2008.[3]

Local government[]

In 2008, Dick was elected to the Brisbane City Council as the representative of Richlands Ward.[1] He was not a resident of the ward at the time he announced his candidacy, but announced he would relocate from his home in Clayfield. He was endorsed by the incumbent prime minister Kevin Rudd.[3] Dick was deputy leader of the opposition on the council until 2012 and subsequently served as leader of the opposition until his resignation in 2016.[1] He was also the opposition spokesman for financial services.[4]

Federal politics[]

Following Labor's defeat at the 2013 federal election, Dick and Jane Garrett were appointed to lead a review into the party's campaign. At the time he publicly requested former prime minister Kevin Rudd to remain in parliament.[5]

In April 2015, Dick announced he would seek preselection for the federal seat of Oxley following the retirement of Bernie Ripoll.[4] He was endorsed unopposed,[6] and retained Oxley for the ALP at the 2016 federal election.[7]

Political positions[]

Dick is a member of the Labor Right faction. After the party's defeat at the 2019 election, he stated that the party needed to "take a stronger and firmer view of talking about resources and the benefits they bring to our economy".[8] In August 2019 he was one of four Labor MPs to join the Parliamentary Friends of Coal Exports group established by Liberal MP Craig Kelly.[9]

Dick has been described by the Australian Jewish News as a "strong supporter of Israel". After a sponsored visit to Israel in 2017, he stated that "terms that are often bandied around – like settlements, occupation, apartheid and the wall – these are all easy catchphrases and clichés to use, and often there isn't a counterbalance given to a lot of those arguments".[10]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Mr Milton Dick MP". Senators and Members of the Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "First speech". Hansard. Parliament of Australia. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b Brisbanetimes.com.au (11 December 2007). "Milton Dick to quit as ALP state secretary (2007)". Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  4. ^ a b Wordsworth, Matt (15 April 2015). "Milton Dick, Brisbane City councillor, to seek preselection for federal seat of Oxley". ABC News. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Rudd should stay, says ALP overseer". Brisbane Times. 3 November 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  6. ^ Sydney Morning Herald (20 May 2015). "Milton Dick Endorsed as next Labor candidate for Oxley". Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Oxley – Australia Votes". Election 2016. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  8. ^ Brown, Greg (21 May 2019). "Labor's own call for policy overhaul". The Australian. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  9. ^ Koziol, Michael; Hutchinson, Samantha (1 August 2019). "Labor MPs flock to join Craig Kelly's 'friends of coal' group". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  10. ^ Desiatnik, Shane (4 April 2017). "Israel trip empowers MPs". Australian Jewish News. Retrieved 16 April 2021.

 

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