Nicolle Flint

Nicolle Flint
MP
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Boothby
Assumed office
2 July 2016 (2016-07-02)
Preceded by Andrew Southcott
Personal details
Born (1978-07-15) 15 July 1978
Kingston SE, South Australia, Australia
Political party Liberal Party of Australia
Alma mater Flinders University
Occupation Columnist, political advisor
Profession Solicitor

Nicolle Jane Flint (born 15 July 1978) is an Australian politician. She is the member for Boothby in the Australian House of Representatives. She is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia and succeeded the previous member, Andrew Southcott, at the 2016 federal election.[1]

Flint was a solicitor and newspaper columnist before her election, and also worked as an advisor to Malcolm Turnbull and Brendan Nelson.[1] She also worked for the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.[2]

Political views

Prior to her election, Flint's political views were expressed in regular Opinion Editorial columns published by The Advertiser.[3]

Hunting and fishing advocacy

Some of Flint's columns expressed her support for recreational and commercial fishing and hunting. She wrote that Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath should not have apologised for taking and sharing trophy photographs with animals he killed while on safari in Africa. She expressed support for the commercial hunting of saltwater crocodiles in the Northern Territory and described the McGrath controversy as an "opportunity to encourage a debate about the economic, ecological and environmental benefits hunting can bring".[4]

In her maiden speech in the Commonwealth Parliament in 2016, Flint spoke of the "modern day scourge of environmental and animal activism".[2]

Flint is from Kingston in the south-east of South Australia. Her hometown harbors South Australia's southern rock lobster fishery and other commercial fisheries.[5] In her The Advertiser columns, Flint supported the prospective culling of long-nosed fur seals,[6] great white sharks and reducing the number of marine park sanctuary zones in South Australian waters. In her 2014 criticism of South Australian marine parks she wrote: "The most endangered species in South Australian coastal waters are our fishermen."[7]

Great white sharks

In 2014, during the Western Australian shark cull, Flint expressed her support for the use of drum lines and shark nets to protect humans from potential attack from great white sharks.[8] In 2017, she expressed her support for the Liberal Federal council's decision to consider permitting the fishing of great white sharks, pending the results of research undertaken by the CSIRO into the status of the species' population. As of 2017, fishing for great white sharks is prohibited as the animals are listed as "vulnerable" under the EPBC Act. She told The Australian: "We must protect our swimmers and surfers and hard-working Australians like abalone divers from being attacked or killed by sharks."[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Boothby - Australia Votes". Election 2016. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Nicolle Flint (Lib-Boothby) - Maiden Speech | AustralianPolitics.com". australianpolitics.com. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  3. ↑ "Columns". Nicolle Flint for Boothby. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  4. ↑ Australia, Sporting Shooter's Association of. "Nicolle Flint: Glenn McGrath shouldn't have said sorry for safari hunting photos | Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia (SSAA)". ssaa.org.au. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  5. ↑ "KINGSTON SE & ROBE". www.sacountrypress.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  6. ↑ Flint, Nicolle (2015-07-06). "Nicolle Flint: Why it's time to kill our killer feral seals". The Advertiser.
  7. ↑ Flint, Nicolle (2014-09-08). "Nicolle Flint: Shutting down key fishing areas is like the government closing our premium wine regions". The Advertiser. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  8. ↑ "In sharks v humans, we are more important". Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  9. ↑ Pawle, Fred (2017-06-24). "Great white shark debate: protection hinges on CSIRO population finding". The Australian. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
Parliament of Australia
Preceded by
Andrew Southcott		 Member for Boothby
2016–present		 Incumbent
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