Michael_Brunker_(politician)

Michael Brunker (politician)

Michael Brunker (politician)

Australian politician

Michael Raymond "Mike" Brunker is an Australian politician currently serving as Whitsunday Regional Councillor for Division 6,[1] a position he has held since 2016.[2][3] He previously served as the first mayor of Whitsunday Region from 2008 to 2012,[4][5] and mayor of the Shire of Bowen for 11 years from 1997 until its amalgamation with Whitsunday Shire in 2008.[6] He was first elected to local government as a Bowen Shire councillor in 1994.

Quick Facts CouncillorMike Brunker, Whitsunday Regional Councillor for Division 6 ...

Brunker is a member of the Australian Labor Party and was the endorsed Labor candidate for the 2010 Australian federal election for the Division of Dawson,[7][8] for the Electoral district of Burdekin at the 2017 Queensland state election[9][10] and again for the 2020 Queensland state election.[11]

References

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    "Mayor and Councillors". Whitsunday Regional Council. Queensland Government. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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    "Whitsunday Regional Division 6 Councillor". Electoral Commission of Queensland. Queensland Government. July 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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    "2016 Whitsunday Regional Council - Councillor Election - Division 6 - Division Summary". Electoral Commission of Queensland. Queensland Government. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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    "2008 Whitsunday Regional Council - Mayoral Election - Election Summary". Electoral Commission of Queensland. Queensland Government. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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    "2012 Whitsunday Regional Council - Mayoral Election - Election Summary". Electoral Commission of Queensland. Queensland Government. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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    "Meet the candidates: Michael Brunker". Daily Mercury. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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    "ALP investigates Qld candidate punch-up". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. 14 August 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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    "Brunker 'embarrassed' about turf club punch-up". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). 15 August 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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    "2017 State General Election - Burdekin". Electoral Commission of Queensland. Queensland Government. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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    "State election 2017: Mike Brunker, Burdekin". Daily Mercury. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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    "CFMEU star candidate to stand". The Australian. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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