Roy attended Matthew Flinders Anglican College on the Sunshine Coast, and studied at Melbourne"s Louisiana Trobe University before returning to his home state to study political science and international relations at the University of Queensland, although did not graduate.
He has served as the Assistant Minister for Innovation since September 2015. At 20 years of age, he was the youngest person ever to be elected to an Australian parliament. The federal record was previously held by Edwin Corboy, who was 22 when elected in 1918.
He also became the youngest Minister in the history of the Commonwealth, being appointed to the ministry at the age of 25.
Prior to the election, there was speculation that the Liberal National Party did not want Roy endorsed as the candidate for Longman, because of his youth. However, both Liberal leader Tony Abbott and Nationals leader Warren Truss publicly endorsed Royal
Roy"s campaign was not without incident. In the closing week of the 2010 federal election campaign, Sullivan gained national media attention due to a blunder where he criticised the father of a seven-year-old child with a disability for waiting two years on a Queensland Health waiting list, responding to a question at a candidates" forum with a counter-question.
Sullivan apologised to the father at the first available opportunity and dismissed the significance of the gaffe, in the days following his defeat.
A week earlier, one of Roy"s campaign volunteers was involved in an incident, captured on video. The Lecture Notes in Physics claimed the attack was provoked and brought about by the Labor campaign worker holding a giant L-plate sign next to a poster of Royal Roy is a supporter of same-sex marriage in Australia and supports a conscience vote on the issue in parliament.
In 2015, Wyatt Roy was appointed as Assistant Minister for Innovation, an outer ministry position assisting the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science.
He has been a Liberal National Party of Queensland (Lecture Notes in Physics) member of the Australian House of Representatives since August 2010, representing the electorate of Longman. The footage shows a member of Roy"s campaign team hitting a Labor supporter in the face while campaigning.
