Heather Butler - Member for Lyons
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St Helens Office: Suites 1 & 2 44 Cecilia Street ST Helens, TAS, 7216 Tel: (03) 6376 2770 Fax: (03) 6376 2799 Email: heather.butler@parliament.tas.gov.au |
EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
| 2005 | Elected State Member for Lyons |
| 1999 – 2005 | Director T. T. Line Pty Ltd (FAICD) |
| 1991 – 2005 | Company Secretary – Oakdock Pty Ltd |
| 2005 | Professional Social Work Supervisor – Break O’Day Healthy House & Anglicare |
| 2002 – 2004 | Owner/Manager Meredith House, Swansea |
| 1991 – 2004 | Consultant Social Worker – Private Practice Department of Education and Community Development (Tas) Department of Health and Community Services (supervision of Social Work Students from University of Tasmania |
| 1999 – 2002 | Member Audit Committee T. T. Line Pty Ltd |
| 1992 – 2002 | Joint Partner – Value Villas Accommodation Chain – Tasmania |
| 1991 – 2002 | East Coast Counselling Service – Professional Supervisor and Convenor Advisory Group |
| 1991 – 2000 | Owner/Manager Queechy Cottages, St Helens Company Secretary – Oakdock Pty Ltd Lecturer – Behavioural Science – Queensland Police Academy Convenor, Working Party - Police Training in post Fitzgerald – Qld, involving Griffith University – Q.U.T. |
| 1989 – 1991 | Guidance Consultant – Dept of Education (QLD) Development Training Package – Traumatic Incidents in Schools Project Manager – Early Childhood Centre – Salisbury State High School (QLD) |
| 1979 – 1986 | Teaching – Victoria/Tasmania |
| 1978 – 1981 | Owner Manager Off-road Holiday and 4WD hire Company |
EDUCATION DETAILS
| 2003 – 2008 | Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (F.A.I.C.D) |
| 2001 – 2008 | Membership of the Australian Institute of Company Directors |
| 1993 – 1995 | Part-time Master of Social Works Studies – Tasmania |
| 1989 – 1991 | Part-time Master of Social Works Studies – Queensland |
| 1987 – 1988 | B.S.W. (University of Melbourne) |
| 1981 – 1986 | B.A. (G.I.A.E. now Monash University) |
COMMUNITY AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT
| 2006 – 2008 | Member – Uniting Church Aged Care Board |
| 1998 – 2008 | Convenor – Friends of Appin Society (Patron: Lady Stewart of Appin) |
| 1996 – 2008 | Member – St Helens Family History Research Group |
| 1992 – 2008 | Member – St Helens Uniting Church |
| 1988 – 2004 | Member – Australian Association of Social Workers |
| 1998 – 2004 | Member – Break O’Day Tourism Association Executive (President 1999 – 2000) |
| 2002 – 2008 | Member – St Helens and Districts Chamber of Commerce |
| 1998 – 2000 | Chairman – St Helens Tourism Promotion Group Inc |
| 1992 – 1998 | Member – East Coast Regional Tourism Association |
| 1995 – 1997 | Member – Eastern District Health Forum |
| 1994 – 1997 | Executive – Youth Access Group of St Helens |
EXTRA PARLIAMENTARY DUTIES
- Deputy Speaker of the House
- Member of Public Accounts Committee
- Member of Development Community Committee
- Member of Work Choices Legislation Committe
Lyons was named after Joseph Aloysius (1879-1939) and Dame Enid Lyons
(1897-1981). Joseph Lyons was Prime Minister of Australia (1932-1939).
Dame Enid was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives
in 1943 and the first woman to reach Cabinet rank as Vice-President of
the Executive Council in 1949.
Lyons has an area of approximately 40 604 sq km and is the largest
division in Tasmania covering most of the State from the west to the
east coasts and from Beaconsfield township in the north to New Norfolk
and the Tasman Peninsula region in the south. The main towns include
Beaconsfield, Brighton, Campbell Town, Deloraine, Evandale, Exeter,
Fingal, Longford, Midway Point, New Norfolk, Oatlands, Perth,
Queenstown, Rosebery, Richmond, St Helens, Swansea, Sheffield, Sorell,
Triabunna and Westbury.
Products and industries of the area cover fishing, forestry, wool,
cattle (dairy and beef), fruit, wine, hydro-power generation, mining
and tourism.