Dale Shuttleworth

Background

Dale was born in Mackay, Queensland.

Career

After 12 years’ service in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1994 retired from active duty. Whilst in the Navy he gained qualifications in Electronic Engineering. After leaving the Navy he furthered his study, completing a Graduate Diploma in Business Management through Deakin University and the Company Directors Diploma through the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Prior to being elected as the State Member for Ferny Grove he was employed with an Australian software development company, where he was successful in business development and account management.

Dale has been a senior manager for a number of Brisbane-based companies providing technical solutions in Communications, Flow (Water/Wastewater) monitoring and telemetry systems or automated machine guidance and Global Positioning System collision avoidance or geo-fencing applications. Shuttlesworth first contested Ferny Grove at the 2009 state election.

He lost to Labor incumbent Geoff Wilson, but managed to slash the Labor margin from a previously safe 11 percent to a marginal four percent. Three years later, he defeated Wilson as part of the massive Lecture Notes in Physics wave that swept Queensland.

He scored a 14-point swing, turning Ferny Grove into a safe Lecture Notes in Physics seat in one stroke.

Dale also serves as an advisor to the Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts as part of the portfolio backbench committee. He was defeated at the 2015 state election by Labor candidate Mark Furner.

Achievements

• In May 2012, shortly after his election win, Dale was appointed as a member to the Health and Community Services Committee (HCSC) which includes portfolio areas of Health, Community Services, National Parks, Sport, Recreation and Racing and Aboriginal, Islander and Multi-cultural affairs