Matthew Mason-Cox

The Hon. Matthew Ryan Mason-Cox
Member of Legislative Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 September 2006
Preceded by	Patricia Forsythe
Personal details
Political party	Liberal Party of Australia
Spouse(s)	Wendy [1]
Children	2 sons, 2 daughters [2]
Residence	Queanbeyan, New South Wales
Website	http://www.matthewmason-cox.com.au

Matthew Ryan Mason-Cox is an Australian politician and a Liberal Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 28 September 2006. He was appointed to the Legislative Council to fill a casual vacancy caused by the early resignation of Patricia Forsythe MLC.

Mason-Cox is currently Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia in the Legislative Council in the O'Farrell Liberal/Nationals Opposition.

Personal life

Mason-Cox operated an optometry business in the rural city of Queanbeyan.

Mason-Cox later served at senior levels in the Australian Public Service and served as secretary and senior adviser to a number of federal Parliamentary committees including the Defence Sub-Committee and the Family Law Committee inquiry into the Child Support Scheme.

Mason-Cox was also Corporate Counsel to Elders IXL Ltd in Adelaide and trained as a solicitor at Freehills in Sydney. Mason-Cox holds a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) degree from the University of NSW, where he was awarded the University Prize for Banking Law.

Matthew is married with four children.^[3]

Political career

In 2006, Mason-Cox stood for Liberal Party preselection for a Southern New South Wales regional seat in New South Wales Legislative Council prior to the 2007 election, challenging incumbent Patricia Forsythe.

Mason-Cox would ordinarily have been formally elected to the Legislative Council at the 2007 election, but Forsythe resigned on 13 September 2006^[4] and Mason-Cox was appointed to the resulting casual vacancy and was sworn in as a Member of the Legislative Council on 28 September 2006.^[5]

Mason-Cox raised the state of infrastructure in the Monaro region and the ongoing battle between New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory over water rights in the Queanbeyan region as early legislative priorities.^[6]

References

1. ^ Matthew Mason-Cox - Maiden Speech
2. ^ Matthew Mason-Cox - Maiden Speech
3. ^ Matthew Mason-Cox Biography
4. ^ Norington, Brad and Salusinszky, Imre. "Fallback option opens for Goward". The Australian, 24 May 2006.
5. ^ "New Lib face in the house". Daily Telegraph, 29 September 2006.
6. ^ Cronin, Danielle. "Queanbeyan businessman is new MLC". Canberra Times, 16 September 2006.

External links

• Parliamentary profile

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