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Brendan Michael Smyth (born 27 July 1959), an Australian politician, is a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Brindabella for the Liberal Party since 1998. From 2002 to 2006 Smyth was the ACT Leader of the Opposition and served briefly as the Deputy Chief Minister during 2000 and 2001. He has held the ACT portfolios Urban Services, Business, Tourism and the Arts, and Police and Emergency Services. Prior to his election to the ACT Legislative Assembly served briefly as the Member for Canberra in the Australian House of Representatives, also representing the Liberals.〔 ==Career== Smyth was born in Sydney and moved to Canberra in May 1969. He worked at the National Library of Australia until 1995 when, representing the Liberal Party, he contested the 1995 by-election for the House of Representatives seat of Canberra. Normally a safe Labor seat, its previous member Ros Kelly had left under a cloud, having been forced to resign her ministry a year earlier over the sports rorts affair, and Smyth received a 16.1% swing to claim the seat. At the Australian federal election on 2 March 1996, Smyth contested the new federal House of Representatives seat of Namadgi (this was the seat of Canberra under another name), even though it had been drawn with a notional Labor majority of 10.9 percent. He was defeated by Annette Ellis, resulting in Labor regaining that seat. He subsequently shifted to territory politics, winning election to the Legislative Assembly in the 1998 election representing the Tuggeranong-based multimember electorate of Brindabella. He was the Opposition Leader for the ACT Liberal Party in the 2005 ACT elections, but lost the election.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brendan Smyth (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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