Career
He served as Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation from 2007 to 2009, under the premiership of Anna Bligh. Currently, Mr McNamara is the Chief Executive Officer of the Chiropractors" Association of Australia. In February 2005, McNamara came to national prominence as the first mainstream Australian politician to speak out on the issue of Peak Oil.
McNamara was the Chair of the Queensland Government"s Oil Vulnerability Taskforce.
The Taskforce report, "Queensland"s Vulnerability to Rising Oil Prices," also known as the McNamara Report was commissioned in 2005 and is the first of its kind to be commissioned by any government in the world. McNamara is also the Foundation Patron of the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO).
McNamara has also established a Climate Change Council with a number of prominent environmentalists and business leaders including Tim Flannery and Ian Lowe. Andrew McNamara represented the seat of is one of the fastest growing areas in Australia.
The area"s principal industry is tourism, in particular whale watching.
Seeking a fourth term, McNamara was defeated in the 2009 election by former Mayor Ted Sorensen. First Speech in the Queensland Parliament, 3 April 2001
Speech in Queensland Parliament on Peak Oil, 22 February 2005
Speech in Queensland Parliament against Whaling, 6 February 2007
Speech in Queensland Parliament against Whaling, 22 May 2007
Speech in Queensland Parliament on Clean Coal Technology, 7 June 2007.