Australia’s new Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, the National Party’s Darren Chester MP, has had plenty of exposure to the general aviation community over his political career.
Chester, the federal member for Gippsland in Victoria, took up his new role in March, replacing the retiring Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss.
The regional development role, which includes airports, was taken over by Fiona Nash MP.
Chester started his political career in 2008, when he was elected to the National Party safe seat of Gippsland. Two years later he became Parliamentary Secretary for Roads and Regional Transport, and Parliamentary Secretary for Defence in 2013. Last year, the Turnbull government elevated him to Assistant Minister for Defence, before handing him the Infrastructure and Transport portfolio in a cabinet reshuffle.
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