Warwick Raymond Parer Australian politician, was a Liberal

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 member of the Australian Senate

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, representing the state of Queensland

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. He is the nephew of Australian war photographer Damien Parer

Damien Parer

Damien Peter Parer was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War, and was killed by Japanese machinegun fire at Peleliu, Palau. He married Elizabeth Marie Cotter on 23 March 1944, and his son, producer Damien Parer, was born after his father...

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Born in Wau, Papua New Guinea, he attended St. Joseph's Nudgee College

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 in Brisbane

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, and was educated at the University of Melbourne

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, where he received a Bachelor of Commerce.

Parer became a member of the Senate in 1985, and from March 1996 to October 1998 was Minister for Resources and Energy

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 in John Howard

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

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(under Section 15 of the Australian Constitution).

He has been Chair of the Coalition of Australian Governments Independent Energy Review Panel and is a member of the Governing Council of the Old Parliament House (Qld).

Warwick Parer served as President of the Queensland Liberal Party from 2006 until February 2008.