Brett Blair Raguse (born 24 March 1960) is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the
House of Representatives
House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...
from 2007 to 2010, representing the
Division of Forde
The Division of Forde is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.
Geography
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for the
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also simply known as Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia, one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms ...
(ALP).
Early life
Raguse was born in
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...
,
Queensland
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. His unwed 17-year-old mother Denise gave him up for adoption at birth. Prior to entering politics he worked as a
compositor
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* Compositor (typesetting), a person or machine which arranged movable type for printing
** Paige Compositor, a device developed to replace manual compositors, which was a commercial failure
* Compositing software, used i ...
, schoolteacher and director of a
TAFE
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college.
Politics
Raguse gained Labor pre-selection to contest the normally safe Liberal seat of Forde at the 2007 federal election. A position previously held by retiring Liberal
Kay Elson
Kay Selma Elson (born 25 January 1947), Australian politician, was a Liberal Member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 until her retirement in November 2007. Kay represented the Division of Forde, Queensland.2010 federal election to the LNP candidate Bert van Manen.
In March 2015, Raguse confirmed he would be a candidate for mayor of
Logan City
Logan City is a local government area situated within the south of the Brisbane metropolitan area in South East Queensland, Australia. Situated between the City of Brisbane to the north and the City of Gold Coast to the south, the City also bo ...
in the Queensland local government elections set for 19 March 2016.