The Author
About Frank Madill
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'.
Education
- 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
Vocational
- 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
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Frank is married to Linda and has two daughters, Christine and Catherine.
Frank has been involved with a large number of community organisations including Citizen
Advocacy, The Launceston Players, Motorcycle Riders Associations, Launceston Pacing Club
and Wattle Group, just to name a few.
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