About Ken Smyth
Born 1948. Ken Smyth is an Australian politician, carpenter and coal mining.
Kenneth William Smyth (born 4 October 1948) is a former Australian politician.
He was born in Rockhampton to Frederick Tomas Smyth and Annie Maud, née Gray; his parents separated two years after his birth. He attended both state and Catholic schools in Mackay before becoming a carpenter and then a miner with the Utah Company's Peak Downs coalmine. A member of the Labor Party, he was a Belyando Shire Councillor from 1982 to 1991 and in 1986 was elected as the member for Bowen in the Queensland Legislative Assembly. In 1992 his seat was abolished and he ran unsuccessfully for Charters Towers.
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Australian politician
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Ken Smyth was born on 4 October 1948 in Rockhampton.
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Ken Smyth is a politician, carpenter and coal mining.
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