Dr Graham Jacobs MLA, Member for Eyre

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WA Premier to visit Esperance & Ravensthorpe

Dr Graham Jacobs MLA, Member for Eyre, is happy to announce the Premier of Western Australia, Hon. Colin Barnett, will be visiting the Esperance/ Ravensthorpe region in mid-February.

WA Premier to Visit Esperance Ravensthorpe.pdf

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Tuesday 13 December 2011 9:00 AMGraham will be presenting student awards at O'Connor Primary School and Boulder Primary School on 13th December 2011. He will also present awards at Kalgoorlie School of the Air on 14th December 2011. CONGRATULATIONS to all students and teachers on a great year!Saturday 3 September 2011 12:00PMGraham is in Southern Cross for the Yilgarn Agricultural Show. Stop by the Liberal tent to say g'day!!!Thursday 25 August 2011 4:30 PMDr Jacobs welcomes Minister for Regional Development, Brendon Grylls, and looks forward to the launch of the Supertown initiative and the developments this will bring to Esperance and the community.Thursday 30 June 2011 5:16 PMDr Jacobs visited Scaddan Primary School today to be part of awards morning assembly and later the Scaddan Biggest Morning Tea. Graham drew the raffles and Mr Pascoe, the long time gardener/handyman finally won after 20 years of buying raffle tickets!Graham and wife Kathryn, with daughter Lucy, later celebrated at Wongutha Caps School NAIDOC week with a flag raising ceremony and BBQ.Monday 30 May 2011 11:25 AMDr Jacobs will be addressing the Friday interagency breakfast. The topic is the government's new social services package.Monday 30 May 2011 11:24 AMDr Jacobs in estimates on Wednesday will ask of the 100 houses in the social housing programme for people with mental illness. How many will be assigned for Boulder and for Esperance. Also, will our little acute short stay facility in Esperance District Hospital be reopened.Monday 30 May 2011 9:06 AMPreparing for budgets estimates... will be questioning government ministers on more doctors in our regions and the operations of our ports and access for product including iron ore, spodumene and rare earths.
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About Graham

Graham was elected to WA Parliament in 2005 for the seat of Roe and re-elected in 2008 as Member for Eyre. He previously held the Mental Health and Water portfolios and shadow portfolios on Disability Services, Seniors, Goldfields-Esperance, Environment, Water Resources and Drug Abuse Strategy. Graham has been a rural GP for 25 years before elected in State Parliament. He enjoyed his years as a physician, surgeon, obstetrician, and family counsellor in his hometown Esperance.To mention some of Grahams involvements in local and state organisations, He was Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee from 2000-2004. From year 2003 up to the present, he was one of the Esperance Hospital Executive Members.He was President of the Esperance Primary School P&C and Esperance Senior High School P&C. He is a Surgeon-Lieutenant of the Royal Australian Naval Reserves (RANR) for 14 days deployment each year, including HMAS Perth (1990), HMAS Swan (1995), HMAS Torrens (1995), and Bougainville Peace Keeping Force (1998). He also had a medical mission in Palawan, Philippines with the New Tribes Mission. Graham achieved his Long Service Medal for 15 Years in service to St John Ambulance. The local footy team Ports Football Club had him as Football Team Doctor and Football Team Manager. Graham is married to Kathryn and they have had five children, 4 boys and 1 girl. Graham was re-elected to the 38th Parliament for Eyre on the 6th of September 2008.

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Electorate of Eyre

Where did the Eyre Electorate get its name?Eyre is named after the explorer Edward John Eyre who in 1841 became the first white person to travel from South Australia to Western Australia across the Nullarbor Plain. The Eyre Highway, Eyre Telegraph Station, Eyre Sand Patch and Eyre River are named after him.Map of Eyre ElectorateSee mapWhat are the shires/ local government within the district? * Shire of Coolgardie * Shire of Dundas * Shire of Esperance * City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder * Shire of Ravensthorpe * Shire of YilgarnWhich towns are in the Eyre Electorate?Balladonia Feysville MyrupBandy Creek Forrest NeridupBeaumont Fraser Range NoongarBinduli Ghooli NorsemanBodallin Gibson North BodallinBoorabbin Grass Patch North CascadeBoulder Holleton NulsenBoyatup Hopetoun Pink LakeBroadwood Howick RavensthorpeBullabulling Jerdacuttup RawlinnaBullfinch Kambalda East Salmon GumsCape Le Grand Kambalda West ScaddanCascade Koolyanobbing SinclairCastletown Londonderry Skeleton RockChadwick Lort River South BodallinCocklebiddy Madura South BoulderCondingup Marvel Loch South YilgarnCoolgardie Merivale Southern CrossCoomalbidgup Monjinup Turkey HillCorinthia Moorine Rock Victory HeightsCundeelee Mt Beaumont West BeachDalyup Mt Burges West KalgoorlieDulyalbin Mt Hampton West RiverEast Munglinup Mt Holland WidgiemoolthaEmu Flat Mt Ney WindaboutEsperance Mundrabilla Wittenoom HillsEucla Munglinup YellowdineHow big is the Eyre Electorate?292,240 Sq kmsThe District of Eyre is in which Region?Mining and Pastoral

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ESPERANCE ELECTORATE OFFICE

9:00 - 4:30 Mon-Fri

107 Dempster St

Esperance WA 6450

Postal Address:

PO Box 1394

Esperance WA 6450

Ph: 08 9071 6555

Fax: 08 9071 6788

BOULDER ELECTORATE OFFICE

9:00 –- 4:30

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

99 Burt Street

Boulder WA 6432

Postal Address:

PO Box 2630

Boulder WA 6432

Ph: 08 9093 1455

Fax: 08 9093 1855

EMAIL: Graham.Jacobs_mp.wa.gov.au

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Pat Ivers (Electorate Officer)

Christiane Smith (Research Officer)
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Joanne Tonkin (Electorate Officer - Boulder)
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