Dave Grills (born 12 April 1959) is an Australian politician. He was elected to the

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as a Nationals member for Mining and Pastoral Region at the 2013 state election. He was defeated at the 2017 state election. He is running to regain his old seat at the 2021 state election with the

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. Although scheduled to take his seat on 22 May 2013, he was elected in a recount on 5 April to the vacancy caused by the resignation of

Wendy Duncan Wendy Maxine Duncan (née Tonkin; born 7 October 1954) is an Australian politician who was a National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 2013 to 2017, representing the seat of Kalgoorlie. She was previously a me ...

to contest the Legislative Assembly seat of

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. Grills was born in

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, England and arrived in

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in 1965. Prior to his election, he was a

-based police officer and served for a period as the Goldfields-Esperance District Crime Prevention and Diversity Officer. He also previously served as a local government councillor on two separate occasions, first at the

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and then the

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. He is currently based in Kalgoorlie but maintains an electorate office in Esperance. Grills listed law and order, youth justice and the provision of greater opportunities for youth in regional and rural Western Australia among his priorities. As a representative of the vast Mining and Pastoral electorate, Grills criticised the use of

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operational workers by mining companies in Western Australia on the grounds that it undermines

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efforts and called for a state policy on transient worker accommodation. In August 2020, it was announced that he had joined the

and would be contesting the Mining and Pastoral Region for them at the 2021 state election. Grills is a councillor on the

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Dave Grills parliamentary biography
1959 births Living people National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Place of birth missing (living people) Australian police officers English emigrants to Australia Politicians from Birmingham, West Midlands 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-National-politician-stub