Bruce Laming | |
Constituency Am1: | Mooloolah |
Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start1: | 19 September 1992 |
Term End1: | 17 February 2001 |
Predecessor1: | New seat |
Successor1: | Seat abolished |
Birth Date: | 1938 6, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Melbourne, Australia |
Death Place: | Sunshine Coast, Queensland |
Birthname: | Bruce Edric Laming |
Nationality: | Australian |
Party: | Liberal Party |
Occupation: | Wool classer, soldier |
Relations: | Andrew Laming (son) |
Bruce Edric Laming (14 June 1938 – 11 September 2017) was an Australian Liberal Party politician in the Queensland parliament.[1] Laming held the seat of Mooloolah from 1992 until 2001 and served as Shadow Public Works and Housing Minister and Deputy Opposition Whip.[1] He is the father of Andrew Laming who was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the member for the Division of Bowman at the 2004 federal election.[2]
The electorate of Mooloolah was renamed Kawana before the 2001 Queensland state election.[3] At the election, Laming suffered an 18.7 percent swing against him and lost the seat to Labor's Chris Cummins.[3]
Laming died on 11 September 2017 in the Sunshine Coast aged 79, following a long battle with dementia.[4]