This is the maiden speech of Ken O’Dowd, the Liberal National Party member for Flynn.
O’Dowd won the Queensland seat at the 2010 federal election, defeating the ALP’s Chris Trevor, who had held the seat since it was created in 2007.
Flynn is based around Gladstone and O’Dowd will sit with the Nationals in Canberra. He secured a swing of 5.82% to win the seat with 53.58% of the two-party-preferred vote.
O’Dowd, 60, has been a self-employed business owner since 1978. He has operated a fuel distributorship, a timber and hardware business, and been a publican and company director. [Read more…]