Daniel Robert Knight is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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 member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly

Northern Territory Legislative Assembly

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 since June 2005, representing the remote electorate of Daly

Electoral division of Daly

Daly is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was created in 2001, and takes its name from the Daly River region which lies at the heart of the electorate. Daly covers some 161,108.65 km², encompassing the towns of Adelaide River, Acacia Hills,...

. He is the current Minister for Local Government and Minister for Central Australia since 2008. He is also the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, having been appointed to the position after the resignation of Len Kiely

Len Kiely

Leonard Francis "Len" Kiely is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Sanderson in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2008....

 in 2006.

Prior to entering politics, Knight was a park ranger. He contested the newly-created seat of Daly in 2001 election against the incumbent Country Liberal Party

Country Liberal Party

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 member Tim Baldwin

Tim Baldwin

Timothy Denny "Tim" Baldwin is a former Australian politician. He was a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1994 to 2005, representing first Victoria River and then Daly ....

, but was unsuccessful. However, following Baldwin's retirement at the 2005 election, he gained the seat with a swing of 24.4%.