Rod Welford
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The Honourable Rod Welford |
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| Minister for Education | |
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In office 28 July 2005 – 26 March 2009 |
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| Premier |
Peter Beattie Anna Bligh |
| Preceded by | Anna Bligh |
| Succeeded by | Geoff Wilson |
| Constituency | Everton |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Stafford |
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In office 2 December 1989 – 19 September 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Terry Gygar |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Everton |
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In office 19 September 1992 – 21 March 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Glen Milliner |
| Succeeded by | Murray Watt |
| Personal details | |
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Rodney Jon Welford 30 September 1958 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland |
| Occupation | Solicitor, Barrister |
Rodney Jon (Rod) Welford (born 30 September 1958) is the chairman and CEO of Ensight, a specialist energy system design firm based in Brisbane, Australia. He is a former Australian parliamentarian who was a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1989 to 2009. Of relevance to his current role, he held the position of Minister for Environment and Heritage and Minister for Natural Resources in the Australian State of Queensland from 1998.
He now works in the fields of energy efficiency, renewable energy and recycling. He is also board chairman of the Electrogroup group of companies, a non-profit enterprise that operates a group training and apprenticeship service for the electrotechnology industry and chairman of the Energy Management Institute, a non-profit company established to train and accredit electrical contractors with skills in energy efficiency design and retrofitting.
Welford entered state parliament as the member for Stafford at the 1989 state election. He switched to the district of Everton at the 1992 state election, which he held until his decision not to stand for re-election at the State election in 2009.
Welford served in a number of portfolios in the Labor governments of Premiers Peter Beattie and Anna Bligh. He was the Minister for Environment & Heritage and Minister for Natural Resources from 1998 to 2001. He was the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice from 2001 to 2005. He was the Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts from 2005 to 2009, as well as the Minister for Training from 2006 to 2009.
Before serving as a State Minister, he had led a Ministerial Review of Sports Funding (1990–91) leading to the creation of the Queensland Academy of Sport and chaired the Government Sustainable Energy Advisory Group (1994–95), a joint government-industry committee, which undertook projects providing the foundation for subsequent government grants programs to subsidise the installation of household solar water heaters and remote area solar power systems.
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