Gregory Piper

Biography

Gregory Michael Piper(born 31 August 1957 in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales) is an Australian politician, who is an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Lake Macquarie since 2007. Piper was mayor of City of Lake Macquarie between 2004 and 2012, before the enactment of the Local Government Amendment (Members of Parliament) Act, 2012 (NSW) preventing dual membership of state parliament and local councils. Piper was elected as the member for Lake Macquarie at the 2007 general election. He sat on the Legislative Assembly's rural and regional Broadband Committee from June 2007 to November 2008 and was a member of the Standing Committee on Natural Resource Management (Climate Change) from 2008 to 2011. In addition, he was a member of the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure from June 2011 to June 2013, the State and Regional Development Committee from March 2013 to March 2015, the Standing Orders and Procedure Committee from March 2013 to March 2015, the Public Accounts Committee from March 2013 to March 2015, and from May 2015 to March 2019, the Select Committee on the Motor Vehicle Repair Industry from November 2013 to July 2014, the Joint Select Committee on Companion Animal Breeding Practices in New South Wales from May 2015 to August 2015, and the Standing Orders and Procedure Committee from May 2015 to March 2019.