Ed Casey

[1] Of Irish Catholic background, Casey started his working life as a bank clerk before entering his family's construction business.Casey made an offer to the Queensland Liberal Party after the 1980 election to form a bipartisan alliance, with the aim of opposing the electoral malapportionment from which Bjelke-Petersen benefited, and of putting in its place a system of one-vote-one-value.In 1986, however, in the midst of a massive National landslide, Casey's hold on the seat was seriously threatened for the first time; he was held to only 53 percent of the vote.Over the next few years, the popularity of the National Party declined; the Coalition with the Liberals had acrimoniously ended earlier in the decade.In this role, Casey reformed the sugar industry, established agricultural academies, and set up a drought relief task force.
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