Tony Crook (politician)
| Tony Crook | |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for O'Connor |
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In office 21 August 2010 – 5 August 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Wilson Tuckey |
| Succeeded by | Rick Wilson |
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Anthony John Crook 23 June 1959 Merredin, Western Australia |
| Political party | The Nationals WA |
| Website | http://www.tonycrook.com.au/ |
Anthony John "Tony" Crook (born 23 June 1959) is a retired Australian politician. He was the member of the Australian House of Representatives seat of O'Connor for the National Party of Western Australia from the 2010 federal election until August 2013. Crook served as chairman of the Western Division of the Royal Flying Doctor Service for 10 years until his retirement in 2009.
Crook was born and raised in Merredin in the wheatbelt region, where his family were pioneer farmers in the area.
Crook once owned Woolibar station, a 140,000 hectares (350,000 acres) sheep station approximately 45 km south of Kalgoorlie and sold the business in 2006 to become part of an agricultural consultancy in Kalgoorlie with his brother Brett.
In the 2007 federal election, Crook stood for the WA Nationals for a Senate seat but was unsuccessful. He also stood for the seat of Kalgoorlie at the 2008 state election, losing to independent John Bowler.
Following the redistribution of O'Connor, where the seat lost the Mid West region and gained the Goldfields-Esperance region, Crook ran against Liberal incumbent Wilson Tuckey at the 2010 election where a hung parliament resulted. The WA Nationals campaigned as an independent party which would not "report, answer and take direction from (federal Nationals leader) Warren Truss".
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