Bruce Edric Laming (14 June 1938 – 11 September 2017) was an Australian Liberal Party politician in the Queensland parliament. Laming held the seat of

Mooloolah Mooloolah Valley is a rural locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mooloolah Valley had a population of 3,321 people. Mooloolah is a town () within the locality. Geography Mooloolah Valley is in the Sunshine ...

from 1992 until 2001 and served as Shadow Public Works and Housing Minister and Deputy Opposition Whip. He is the father of

Andrew Laming Andrew Charles Laming (born 30 September 1966) is a former Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Bowman, Queensland, for the Liberal National Party of Queensland from 2004 to 2022. H ...

who was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the member for the Division of Bowman at the 2004 federal election. The electorate of Mooloolah was renamed Kawana before the

2001 Queensland state election An election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 17 February 2001 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The result of the election was the return of the Labor Party (ALP) government of Premier Peter Beattie ...

.Kawana election results
ABC Election Coverage – Queensland, 2004. At the election, Laming suffered an 18.7 percent swing against him and lost the seat to Labor's Chris Cummins. Laming died on 11 September 2017 in the Sunshine Coast aged 79, following a long battle with dementia.

Publications

*Laming, Bruce, "Scheme for jobless also has benefits for business", ''Business Queensland'', 12 May 1997.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Laming, Bruce 1938 births 2017 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 21st-century Australian politicians