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

Australia

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n politician. Born in London

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, England

England

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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 Australian Democrats

Australian Democrats

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, he contested the 1983 and 1984 federal elections. In 1986, he joined the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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. He was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 in 1989 as the Labor member for Redcliffe

Electoral district of Redcliffe

The district of Redcliffe is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral division in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.The division encompasses suburbs to the north and northeast of Brisbane, including Redcliffe, Woody Point, Scarborough, Clontarf and Margate, as well as parts of Kippa-Ring...

. On 28 July 1998 he was appointed Speaker of the Legislative Assembly

Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

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

Redcliffe state by-election, 2005

A by-election was held for the Queensland Legislative Assembly district of Redcliffe on 20 August 2005. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting Labor member and Speaker Ray Hollis....

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