Raymond Keith "Ray" Hollis (born 30 January 1940) is a former

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n politician (unrelated to another Australian politician,

Colin Hollis Colin Hollis (born 30 May 1938) is a retired Australian federal politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001. Hollis was born in Wauchope, New South Wales, and received a BSc ( ...

). Born in

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, he migrated to Australia in 1962 as a merchant seaman and worked in a variety of occupations, including a railway worker, cook, paper mill operator, insurance salesman and a position with the Victorian Corrective Services. He later owned a transport and distribution business. As a member of the

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, Hollis contested the 1983 and 1984 federal elections. In 1986, he joined the ALP. He was elected to the

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in 1989 as the Labor member for Redcliffe. On 28 July 1998 he became

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. He held the position until 21 July 2005, when he resigned his seat, triggering a

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.Hollis, Hon. Raymond Keith (Ray)

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. Retrieved 12 February 2015.

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1940 births Living people Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Speakers of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-Queensland-MP-stub