Parliamentary Positions:

• • March 2004 - Sept 2005
  • Liberal Shadow Minister for Justice, State Development & Innovation, Emergency services, Seniors and
  • Local Government. Shadow Attorney General. Liberal Party Whip.
  • September 2005 - July 2008
  • Shadow Minister for Justice, Shadow Attorney General.
  • August 2006 - Dec 2007
  • Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party
  • Dec 2007 - July 2008
  • Leader of the Liberal Party
  • July 2008 - Current
  • Deputy Leader of the Opposition

Party Positions:

• • Chairman Fisher FEC
  • Chairman Fisher Business Branch
  • Member of Peter Slipper's Campaign Committee
  • Member of Liberal Party State Executive
  • Delegations:
  • Member, Queensland State government Delegation to Korea and Japan September 2005

Community Involvement:

Mark is an avid support of community groups within his electorate of Caloundra.

He is currently Patron of:

• Sunshine Coast Clay Target Club
  
• Sunshine Coast Youth Orchestra
  
• Caloundra Chorale and Theatre Company Inc.
  
• Caloundra Family History Group Inc
  
• Sunshine Coast Disability Group
  
• Caloundra State High School
  

Vice Patron of:

• Surf Life Saving Sunshine Coast
• Ithaca Caloundra City Life Saving
• Caloundra Metropolitan Life Saving Club
• Surf Life Saving Queensland
• Founding Member of the Sunshine Coast Family Contact Centre

Memberships:

• Caloundra City Ratepayers Association,
  
• Caloundra Chamber of Commerce
  
• Caloundra Red Cross
  
• Kawana Chamber of Commerce
  
• Kawana Community Association
  
• Australian Independent Retirees
  
• Australian Pensioners and Superannuants League
  
• Night Eyes
  
• Caloundra Tourist Association
  
• Golden Beach Progress Association
  
• Currimundi Catchment Care Group
  
• Friends of Currimundi Lake
  
• Save the Children
  
• Caloundra Economic Development Board
  
• Airport Steering Committee
  
• Domestic Violence
  
• Caloundra Community Centre
  
• Integrated Youth Service
  
• Regular attendee at P & C Association meetings in the electorate and also
  
• Neighbourhood Watch meetings

Policy Advisory Committees:

• Attorney General and Justice
  
• Seniors
  
• Police Forum
  
• Liberal Advisory group includes Fisher Women's Council

Personal:

Mark and his wife Judy live at Ivedale Lakes, Little Mountain and have a grown up family.
Qualifications and occupation before entering State Parliament:
Solicitor in the Supreme Court of Queensland
Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
Member of the Federal Attorney-General's Family Law Council Committee
Approved Mediator -Queensland Law Society Inc