Chris Whiting

Chris Whiting MP
Queensland Government Chief Whip
In office 16 February 2016 – 11 December 2017
Premier	Annastacia Palaszczuk
Preceded by	Mick de Brenni
Succeeded by	Don Brown
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Bancroft
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 November 2017
Preceded by	New seat
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Murrumba
In office 31 January 2015 – 25 November 2017
Preceded by	Reg Gulley
Succeeded by	Steven Miles
Moreton Bay Regional Councillor for Division 2
In office 15 March 2008 – 28 April 2012
Preceded by	New Division
Succeeded by	Peter Flannery
Personal details
Born	(1966-07-13) 13 July 1966 (age 58) Mackay, Queensland
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Alma mater	University of Queensland[1]
Occupation	Media and communications officer, real estate agent
Website	www.chriswhiting.com.au

Christopher Guy Whiting (born 13 July 1966) is an Australian politician. He has been the Australian Labor Party member for Bancroft in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2017, and previously represented Murrumba from 2015 to 2017.^[2][3]

Early life

Whiting graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Master of Journalism.

Political career

Prior to being elected as a member of the Queensland Parliament, he represented Burpengary, Beachmere and Deception Bay for 12 years on the Caboolture Shire Council and then the Moreton Bay Regional Council. During his time as a councillor, he was at the forefront of the revitalisation of the Deception Bay foreshore, the implementation of traffic calming strategies in Deception Bay, and the initiation of the Burpengary Greenlinks park land project. In 2012, he unsuccessfully ran for the position of mayor of Moreton Bay Regional Council.

Member of Parliament

After his unsuccessful run for mayor, Whiting worked in real estate, before being preselected as the Labor candidate, at the 2015 state election, for the previously safe Labor seat of Murrumba, which Labor had lost in the 2012 state election. He was successful and became a member of the 55th Queensland Parliament. Following an electoral redistribution, Whiting chose to run for the notionally safe Labor seat of Bancroft at the 2017 election.

He is currently the chair of the State Development and Regional Industries Committee, and had previously served as Chief Government Whip.

References

1. "About Chris". Chris Whiting's page. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
2. "Member Details - Mr Christopher (Chris) Whiting". Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
3. Green, Antony. "Murrumba". Queensland Election 2015. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Parliament of Queensland
Preceded by Reg Gulley	Member for Murrumba 2015–2017	Succeeded by Steven Miles
New seat	Member for Bancroft 2017–present	Incumbent