Christopher Guy Whiting (born 13 July 1966) is an Australian politician. He has been 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 ...

member for Bancroft in the

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since 2017, and previously represented Murrumba from 2015 to 2017.

Early life

Whiting graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Master of Journalism.

Political career

Prior to being elected as a member of the Queensland Parliament, he represented Burpengary, Beachmere and Deception Bay for 12 years on the Caboolture Shire Council and then the

Moreton Bay Regional Council The Moreton Bay Region is a local government area in the north of the Brisbane metropolitan city in South East Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it replaced three established local government areas, the City of Redcliffe and the Shi ...

. During his time as a councillor, he was at the forefront of the revitalisation of the Deception Bay foreshore, the implementation of

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strategies in Deception Bay, and the initiation of the Burpengary Greenlinks park land project. In 2012, he unsuccessfully ran for the position of mayor of Moreton Bay Regional Council.

Member of Parliament

After his unsuccessful run for mayor, Whiting worked in real estate, before being preselected as the Labor candidate, at the 2015 state election, for the previously safe Labor seat of Murrumba, which Labor had lost in the 2012 state election. He was successful and became a member of the 55th Queensland Parliament. Following an electoral redistribution, Whiting chose to run for the notionally safe Labor seat of Bancroft at the 2017 election. He is currently the chair of the State Development and Regional Industries Committee, and had previously served as Chief Government Whip.

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