Grant Musgrove

Grant Musgrove
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Springwood
In office 13 June 1998 – 17 February 2001
Preceded by	Luke Woolmer
Succeeded by	Barbara Stone
Personal details
Born	Grant Steven Musgrove 28 March 1968 Victoria, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Australian Labor Party
Alma mater	Griffith University
Occupation	Policy advisor

Grant Steven Musgrove (born 28 March 1968) is Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council of Recycling, the peak industry association for the resource recovery industry.^[1] A former Australian legislator, he was the member for Springwood in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2001, representing the Australian Labor Party.

He completed a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Economics, and a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Environmental Planning, at Griffith University and started his career in landfill re-mediation before becoming a policy officer in 1992 in the Department of Premier and Cabinet. In 1996 he resigned from the public service to a take a position as an economic and environmental issue management consultant.^[2]

In 1998, Musgrove was elected as the Labor member for Springwood. Musgrove secured the largest swing to a government member in the 1998 Queensland state election (11%) and was elected as its youngest member. Musgrove's election on a narrow margin of 1% enabled the formation of the first Beattie minority government. Musgrove was appointed to the Queensland Innovation Council (developing the Queensland Innovation Strategy), the Queensland Public Works Committee and Chair of several Budget Estimates Committees.

In 2000, allegations of branch stacking in the pre-selection of Australian Labor Party candidates resulted in the Shepherdson Inquiry. He did not re-contest his seat in the 2001 election.

Musgrove went on to work as a government relations consultant then as Senior Adviser in the Chancellery at Griffith University. Musgrove is also on a number of boards, councils, expert government committees and advisory boards in relation to resource recovery and resource efficiency and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

References

1. ACOR CEO. Australian Council of Recycling. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
2. "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.