DAVID JULL

'David Francis Jull' (born 4 October 1944), Australian politician, is a long-serving Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Bowman, Queensland, 1975-83 and Fadden, Queensland, since 1984. He was born in Kingaroy, Queensland, and was educated at the University of Queensland. He was a Disk Jockey on radio station 4IP and a newsreader on TVQ-0 before entering politics. He was Deputy General Manager of the Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation 1983-84.
Jull was a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry 1989-94, and was Minister for Administrative Services 1996-97. He resigned from the ministry following accusations that he had failed to prevent other MPs from abusing their parliamentary allowances.
Jull was chair of the Parliamentary Committee on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation 1997-2002, and of its successor, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (formerly the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD), since 2002. In this capacity he presided over the Committee's inquiry into the performance of the Australian intelligence services in relation to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in 2003-04.

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