Melissa Price
Current Positions
Federal Minister for Environment (Aug 2018 – May 2019)
Federal Assistant Minister for Environment (Dec 2017 to Aug 2018)
Previous Positions
Minister for Defence (2019 – 2022)
Minister for Science and Technology (2021 – 2022)
Federal Member for Durack, WA (2013 – Present)
Mining Connections
Vice-President, Legal and Business Development, Crosslands Resources Ltd (2008-2012) [1] [2] [3]
General Counsel and Business Development Manager, CBH Group (2002-2008) [4]
Robe River Iron Associates [5]
Solicitor, Clayton Utz
Non-Executive Director, BrightSpark Foundation (until 2016)
Non-Executive Director, Cancer Council
[2] Crosslands Resources is an iron ore mining company (exporting to China, Japan, Korea and Thailand), and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd (one of the largest trading and investment companies in Japan). In 2009, Crosslands Resources was a foundation member of a Western Australian iron ore lobby group – seeking concessions under an emissions trading scheme (ETS). Source: http://www.abc.net.au/site-archive/rural/news/content/200905/s2580953.htm (Viewed 4/12/18)
[3] Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd is the holding company of Mitsubishi’s coal assets in Australia. Mitsubishi Development Ltd owns numerous Queensland coal mines, including Blackwater, Gregory Crinum, Goonyella Riverside, Norwich Park, Peak Downs, Saraji, Daunia, Caval Ridge and Broadmeadow. The company also owns the Hay point coal terminal in Mackay, and has significant shareholdings in the Clermont Coal Mine. Source: https://www.qrc.org.au/our-members/mitsubishi-development-pty-ltd/ (Viewed 30/11/18)
[4] Source: https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=249308 (Viewed 30/11/18)
[5] Melissa Price, First Speech, 2 December 2013 http://australianpolitics.com/2013/12/02/melissa-price-durack-first-speech.html (Viewed 30/11/18)
Simone Marsh was a senior environmental analyst with the Queensland Co-ordinator General. After filing her report on the environmental effects of the proposed LNG industry in June 2010, she walked out of her job and was not heard of again in the media until she testified as a whistleblower at the Queensland government parliamentary inquiry into Queensland government administration of Commonwealth government affairs in November 2014.