Grant Woodhams

Infobox MLA | name =Grant Woodhams


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nationality =Australian
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term_start =26 February 2005
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predecessor =Jamie Edwards
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birth_date =Birth date and age|1952|8|7|mf=y
birth_place =Sydney New South Wales
constituency =Greenough
party =Nationals
spouse =Gabrielle Woodhams
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Grant Allen Woodhams (born August 7, 1952) in Sydney, New South Wales is an Australian politician. He has been an Nationals member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since February 2005, representing the electorate of Greenough. [cite web|url=http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament%5CMemblist.nsf/WAllMembersFlat/Woodhams,+Grant+Allen?opendocument|title=WA Parliament Members List - Mr Grant Woodhams|year=2007|accessdate=2008-04-17]

Arriving in Western Australia in 1967, Woodhams was schooled in Perth and Albany he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Murdoch University before starting work with ABC radio. [cite web|url=http://www.bushchange.com/representatives/woodhams.aspx|title=National Party of WA - Mr Grant Woodhams|year=2008|accessdate=2008-04-17]

After working with the ABC in Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia Woodhams returned to Western Australia in 1990 to work in the Mid West. He left the ABC in 2004 to pursue his Masters Degree in Education.

In the Western Australian state election, 2005 Woodhams beat one term Liberal MP Jamie Edwards to take the seat of Greenough for the Nationals.

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