Andrew Fraser | |
Office: | Member of Legislative Assembly of New South Wales |
Term Start: | 3 November 1990 |
Term End: | 23 March 2019 |
Predecessor: | Matt Singleton |
Successor: | Gurmesh Singh |
Constituency: | Coffs Harbour |
Birth Date: | 1952 12, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Newcastle, New South Wales |
Party: | The Nationals |
Spouse: | Kerrie Fraser[1] |
Children: | Three |
Occupation: | Politician |
Andrew Raymond Gordon Fraser (born 19 December 1952), an Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2019, representing Coffs Harbour for the Nationals.[2]
Fraser was educated in Newcastle at Kahibah Primary and Whitebridge High Schools. He has worked in finance industry and as an insurance broker and has been the proprietor of a take-away food shop and of a caravan park. He is married with three children.[3]
Fraser is noted for chasing and grabbing then Minister for Roads, Joe Tripodi, on the floor of the House in September 2005, apparently in relation to a lack of funding for the main roads, including the Pacific Highway in Coffs Harbour.[4] The ABC's coverage of the 2007 election included the caption "Andrew Fraser the strangler won." He became deputy leader of the NSW Nationals in March 2007,[5] before he was deposed during a leadership spill in October 2008.
On 3 December 2008, Fraser resigned from the shadow ministry after pushing fellow Nationals MP Katrina Hodgkinson in the Legislative Assembly.[6] Hodgkinson was trying to move Fraser away from a verbal confrontation with Labor MP John Aquilina.