Mark Stoneman | |
Office: | Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Trade and Consumer Affairs |
Term Start: | 3 November 1992 |
Term End: | 31 May 1994 |
Leader: | Rob Borbidge |
Successor: | Tom Gilmore (Economic Development) Joan Sheldon (Trade and Consumer Affairs) |
Office1: | Shadow Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations |
Term Start1: | 10 December 1991 |
Term End1: | 3 November 1992 |
Leader1: | Rob Borbidge |
Predecessor1: | Neville Harper |
Successor1: | Santo Santoro |
Office2: | Shadow Minister for Regional Development |
Term Start2: | 10 December 1991 |
Term End2: | 3 November 1992 |
Leader2: | Rob Borbidge |
Predecessor2: | Rob Borbidge |
Successor2: | Mike Horan |
Office3: | Shadow Treasurer of Queensland |
Term Start3: | December 1989 |
Term End3: | 10 December 1991 |
Leader3: | Russell Cooper |
Predecessor3: | Wayne Goss |
Successor3: | Doug Slack |
Office4: | Minister for Primary Industries |
Term Start4: | 25 September 1989 |
Term End4: | 7 December 1989 |
Premier4: | Russell Cooper |
Predecessor4: | Neville Harper |
Successor4: | Ed Casey |
Constituency Am5: | Burdekin |
Assembly5: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start5: | 22 October 1983 |
Term End5: | 13 June 1998 |
Predecessor5: | Val Bird |
Successor5: | Jeff Knuth |
Birth Date: | 29 July 1939 |
Birth Place: | Wellington, New South Wales, Australia |
Birthname: | Mark David Stoneman |
Party: | National Party |
Spouse: | Joan Elizabeth Ingrey |
Alma Mater: | Hurlstone Agricultural High School |
Occupation: | Grazier |
Mark David Stoneman (born 29 July 1939) is a former Australian politician.
He was born in Wellington, New South Wales, and was a grazier before entering politics.
After moving to Queensland he was active in the National Party, and in 1983 was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Burdekin.
In 1989 he was appointed Minister for Primary Industries, but later that year Labor won office.
In opposition Stoneman became Shadow Treasurer and Opposition Spokesman for Pastoral and Sugar Industries, moving to Employment, Regional Development and Industrial Relations in 1991 and to Economic Development, Trade and Consumer Affairs in 1992. He left the front bench in 1994, but when the Borbidge government came to power in 1996 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier and the government's North Queensland representative.
He retired in 1998.[1]
He married Joan Elizabeth Ingrey on 3 March 1962, and they have 1 son and 3 daughters.