Frank Madill was born in 1941 at Pakenham Bush Nursing Hospital, 50km east of Melbourne. After graduating from Melbourne University in 1965, he moved to Launceston to complete his medical training and then spent nearly twenty years as a full-time GP in the Northern Suburbs.

Somehow he found time to run a Romney sheep stud as well.

He was elected a state parliamentarian in 1986 and continued to practise medicine part-time until he became a Minister in 1992 and Speaker of the House in 1996. He retired from parliament in 2000 and has practised medicine part time since then.

In 2004, Frank began part-time lecturing at the University of Tasmania and he also lectures at the Martime College.

Since 2004 he has had a regular segment on ABC Northern Tasmania radio with Elaine Harris entitled 'Medicine - Then and Now'.

In 2005, Frank's best selling book, If You Faint, Fall Backwards! MEDICINE: WARTS and ALL, marked his successful entry into his fourth profession: that of author.

This was followed by two further memoirs - It All Comes to Sheep! FARMING: WARTS and ALL and Why Politics Doctor? Politics: WARTS and ALL.

Frank launched his most recent book in September 2011 - a biography titled SANDERS DFC OUT OF THE DARKNESS.

• Batchelor Medicine, Batchelor Surgery
  Melbourne 1965
• Fellow of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners 1970
• Member of Australian Society for Hypnosis
• Certificate of Superannuation Trusteeship Macquarie University

• Resident Medical Officer
  Launceston General Hospital
  1966 - 1967
• Full-time General Practitioner
  Northern Suburbs Medical Service
  1968-1986
• Member for Bass
  Elected to the Parliament of Tasmania in the House of Assembly in the second Gray Liberal Government
  1986
• Chairman of Government Health, Education and the Arts and Housing Committees
  1986 - 1989
• Minister for Housing
  Minister for Youth Affairs
  Minister for Consumer Affairs
  June 1989
• Tasmanian Government Representative at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference
  May 1990 in the United Kingdom
• Shadow Minister for Police & Emergency Services
  Shadow Minister Youth Affairs
  July 1989 - February 1992
• Minister for Roads &Transport
  February 1992 - February 1993
• Minister for Police & Emergency Services
  1992 - 1996
• Minister for Consumer Affairs
  Minister for Multicultural & Ethnic Affairs
  Minister Assisting the Premier in the Groom Liberal Government
  February 1993 - February 1996
• Speaker of the House Assembly
  Elected in April 1996
• Presiding Officers & Clerks Conference
  1996 in Hobart
• Presiding Officers & Clerks Conference
  July 1997 in Nauru
• Presiding Officers & Clerks Conference
  1998 in Sydney
• Member Australasian Study of Parliament Group
• Ex Officio Chairman of Parliamentary Superannuation Trust
• Shadow Minister for Health & Human Services
  Multicultural & Ethnic Affairs
  Tasmania Fire Service
  Racing & Gaming
  Opposition Whip
  1998 - 2000
• Retired from Politics
  March 2000
• Assistant, Northern Suburbs Medical Service
  July 2000 -
• Lecturer - Department of Human Life Sciences
  January 2004 UTAS -
• Visiting Lecturer - Australian Maritime College
  July 2004 -
• Visiting Lecturer - Sydney University Medical School
  2007

Life Memberships

• North Launceston Football Club
• Mowbray Cricket Club
• Bell Bay Seafarer's Mission
• Saints Softball Club