David Francis Jull (4 October 1944 – 13 September 2011) was an Australian politician. He was a long-serving
Liberal
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member of the
Australian House of Representatives
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, representing the
Division of Bowman
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Geography
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, Queensland, from 1975 to 1983 and
Fadden, Queensland, from 1984 to 2007.
Jull was born in
Kingaroy
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, Queensland, and was educated at the
Anglican Church Grammar School
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and the
University of Queensland
, mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work
, established =
, endowment = A$224.3 million
, budget = A$2.1 billion
, type = Public research university
, chancellor = Peter Varghese
, vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry
, city = B ...
. He was an announcer on radio and television from 1963 to 1965 and then a director of television station
TVQ
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History
In April 1964, the Postmaster-General's Department granted Universal Telecasters a broadcasting licence. The channel was allocated channel 0 (the 0 was pronounced as ...
, Brisbane until he entered politics. He was elected at the
1975 general election, but defeated in
1983
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.
He was Deputy General Manager of the Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation 1983–84.
Jull was reelected to parliament at the
1984 election. He was a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry 1989–94, and was
Minister for Administrative Services 1996–97.
[ He resigned from the ministry following accusations that he had failed to prevent other MPs from abusing their parliamentary allowances.
Jull was chair of the Parliamentary Committee on the ]Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
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1997–2002, and of its successor, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) is a joint committee of the Parliament of Australia which oversees Australia's primary agencies of the Australian Intelligence Community: Australian Security Intelligence Organi ...
(formerly the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD), since 2002. In this capacity he presided over the Committee's inquiry into the performance of the Australian intelligence services in relation to Iraq
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's weapons of mass destruction
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in 2003–04.
Health problems and death
Jull was diagnosed with lung cancer
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, and in 2005 underwent surgery to remove one of his lungs, He retired from Parliament at the 2007 election.[
Jull died peacefully on 13 September 2011 in Brisbane, aged 66. He had no children. Jull was accorded a ]state funeral
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, which took place on 23 September.
References
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1944 births
2011 deaths
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia
Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Bowman
Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Fadden
People from Kingaroy
Place of death missing
Australian radio presenters
Australian television newsreaders and news presenters
People educated at Anglican Church Grammar School
21st-century Australian politicians
20th-century Australian politicians