Grant Steven Musgrove (born 28 March 1968) is a former Australian politician. He was the member for Springwood in the

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from 1998 to 2001, representing the Labor Party. He has held a number of additional roles, such as senior public servant, university advisor, and chief executive officer of the Australian Council of Recycling. At

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, Musgrove completed a

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, majoring in economics, and a

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, (Australian Environmental Studies) majoring in Environmental Planning. He started his career as policy officer in the Department of Premier and Cabinet in 1992. In 1996, he resigned from the public service to run for a seat in parliament. In 1998, Musgrove was elected as the

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member for Springwood. Musgrove was appointed as Chair of the Queensland Innovation Council (developing the Queensland Innovation Strategy), the Queensland Public Works Committee, Griffith University Council, member of numerous Ministerial advisory committees and as chair and member of several Budget Estimates Committees. Musgrove resigned from the Labor Party in December 2000, after he admitted to the Shepherdson Inquiry into electoral fraud that he "probably" was involved in fraudulently enrolling voters for the purposes of

branch stacking Branch stacking is a term used in Australian politics to describe the act of recruiting or signing up members for a local branch of a political party for the principal purpose of influencing the outcome of internal preselection of candidates for ...

. Report of the Shepherdson Inquiry into electoral fraud, 2001
/ref> He did not recontest his seat in Parliament. Musgrove went on to work as a government relations consultant then as Senior Manager and Advisor at

. He served on number of boards, councils, expert government committees and advisory boards in relation to

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and

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, and is a Member of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Musgrove, Grant 1968 births Living people Independent members of the Parliament of Queensland Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland 21st-century Australian politicians Griffith University alumni