Warwick Raymond Parer, AM (6 April 193614 March 2014) was an Australian politician who served as a

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for

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from 1984 to 2000. He was a member of the

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and served as

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in the Howard Government from 1996 to 1998.

Early life

Parer was born in Wau in the Australian-administered

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(present-day Papua New Guinea). His uncle

Damien Parer Damien Peter Parer (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1944) was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War, and was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire at Peleliu, Palau. He was cinematographer ...

was a war photographer who was killed by the Japanese in 1944. Parer was educated at St. Joseph's Nudgee College in

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and at the

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, where he received a Bachelor of Commerce.

Politics

Parer became a member of the Senate in 1985. Following the announcement of the 1987 Senate election results, Parer was one of four senators who received a six-year term as a consequence of which method was chosen to allocate the seats. From March 1996 to October 1998, Parer was

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's government. He retired from the Senate on 11 February 2000, and his vacant seat was taken by

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under Section 15 of the Australian Constitution. Parer was president of the Queensland Liberal Party from 2006 until February 2008.

Other activities

He was chair of the Coalition of Australian Governments Independent Energy Review Panel and a member of the Governing Council of the Old Parliament House (Qld). He was appointed a

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in 2005. He was also appointed chair of the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Foundation in 2010, and chairman of the Board of

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Limited in May 2012.

Death

Parer died on Friday 14 March 2014.Robtn Ironside
"Tributes flow for former Liberal Senator Warwick Parer"
''The Sunday Mail'', 16 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Parer, Warwick 1936 births 2014 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian Senate for Queensland Members of the Australian Senate Members of the Order of Australia 20th-century Australian politicians People from Morobe Province Australian mining businesspeople