BATHURST will have both its state and federal representatives on their respective frontbenches after it was confirmed that Member for Calare Andrew Gee will be getting a promotion.
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Mr Gee, who has held Calare since the 2016 federal election after shifting from the NSW Parliament, will become the new assistant minister to the deputy prime minister, Michael McCormack.
The assistant minister role became vacant when Mallee MP Andrew Broad was forced to resign after a texting scandal with a woman from a "sugar daddy" website.
“Andrew has a passion for and dedication to his electorate and for country people which is infectious,” Mr McCormack said of Mr Gee.
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“He was parliamentary secretary to the deputy premier and for regional roads in the NSW Liberal and Nationals’ Government before he came to represent Calare in Canberra, and that experience listening to country communities and sharing their ideas and aspirations will be central to Andrew's new role.”
Mr McCormack said he had worked “with Andrew as we delivered the historic Murray-Darling Medical Schools network”.
Mr Gee said he was “passionate about attracting jobs, opportunities and investment to the bush”.
“Michael and I worked very well together to make the Murray-Darling Medical Schools Network a reality and train more doctors for the bush,” he said.
Mr Gee will be sworn in to his new role later this month.
Bathurst’s state member, Paul Toole, has been on his government’s frontbench since 2014 when he became Minister for Local Government.
He has been Minister for Lands, Forestry and Racing since a reshuffle in 2017.
