Mark Stoneman became Chairman of NQ Dry Tropics
in April 2007.
Mark has a continuing history of
contact with the land and its people, from a mixed sheep and grain
property in New South Wales to large family sheep and cattle
operations in western Queensland and the Desert Uplands.
He was a member of the State and
National Councils of the Children’s Parents’
Association (ICPA) in the period 1974-1982 including two terms as
Queensland President. He is a Life Member of both the
Queensland Council and Cairns Radio Branch of ICPA.
In 1981-1982, Mark introduced live
weight wet curfew cattle sales into Queensland for the Queensland
Meat and Livestock Authority.
Mark entered the Queensland
Parliament in 1983 as the Member for Burdekin and, during the
fifteen years prior to his retirement in 1998, he held numerous
senior positions in government and opposition including Minister
for Primary Industries, Shadow Treasurer and Premier’s
Representative in north Queensland.
In 1999, he co-founded the
not-for-profit environmental organisation, the Wetlands and
Grasslands Foundation. Mark continues to run a small Brahman Cattle
Stud near Giru and is Patron of the Giru Show Society and
Townsville Gun Club.
