Police Station - Taroom, QLD
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The Taroom Police Station was officially opened by the Minister for Police and Emergency Services on 18th February 1992.
Waymark Code: WMTBAP
Location: Queensland, Australia
Date Posted: 10/27/2016
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Taroom is a small town servicing beef & wheat properties in central Queensland. The Police Station was officially opened by The Honourable Nev Warburton M.L.A. the Minister for Police and Emergency Services. The plaque recording the Official Opening is beside the entrance to the station, which is open on Mondays & Tuesdays only.
The plaque is worded:
Taroom Police Station officially opened on 18th February 1992 by The Honourable Nev Warburton M.L.A. the Minister for Police and Emergency Services.
Hon. Ron McLean M.L.A.
Minister for Administrative Services
Hon. N.J. Harper M.L.A.
Member for Auburn
N.R. Newnham, APM
Commissioner
Queensland Police Services
R.W. Dunning
Director - General
Administrative Services Department
Design and Construction Authority - Administrative Services Department.
Nev Warburton M.L.A.
Neville George (Nev) Warburton (born 23 February 1932) is a former Queensland politician, who served as leader of the opposition from 1984 to 1988, and as a minister in the Goss Ministry from 1989 to 1992. He was elected at the 1977 election as the Australian Labor Party candidate for the seat of Sandgate, succeeding Harold Dean who had held the seat for the ALP since 1960. In 1982, fellow opposition frontbencher Keith Wright deposed ALP leader Ed Casey in a secret ballot, after a string of poor election results. Warburton was appointed deputy opposition leader in Wright's shadow cabinet, despite having served only five years in parliament.
When Labor won power for the first time in over thirty years at the 1989 election, he was appointed as Minister for Employment, Training and Industrial relations. In 1991, he switched portfolios and became Minister for Police and Emergency Services, a post he held until he retired from Parliament in 1992.
Source: Wikipedia (website listed below).
What was opened/inaugurated?: Taroom Police Station
Who was that opened/inaugurated it?: The Honourable Nev Warburton M.L.A. the Minister for Police and Emergency Services.
Date of the opening/inauguration?: 2/18/1992
Website about the location: [Web Link]
Website about the person: [Web Link]
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