Alan Eggleston
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Alan Eggleston (30 December 1941 – 13 May 2025) was an Australian politician who served as a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1996 to 2014 representing Western Australia.
Career
Early career
He was born in Busselton, Western Australia, and was educated at the University of Western Australia, where he studied medicine, and at Murdoch University, where he graduated in arts.
Professional career
He was a medical practitioner in Port Hedland, Western Australia, serving from 1974 until 1996. He was a councillor in Port Hedland serving from 1988 until 1996 and mayor serving from 1993 until 1996. He was a member of the Pilbara Development Commission from 1994 until 1996.
Personal life
He had achondroplasia, a common cause of dwarfism.[1] He retired from all of his other political jobs to be a senator. On 9 April 2012, Eggleston announced that he would not be standing in the 2013 Australian federal election, and would retire at the end of his term in 2014.[2]
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- 1941 births
- Living people
- Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia
- Members of the Australian Senate for Western Australia
- People with dwarfism
- People from Busselton
- Murdoch University alumni
- University of Western Australia alumni
- Mayors of places in Western Australia
- Australian medical doctors
- 21st-century Australian politicians
- 20th-century Australian politicians
- Western Australian local councillors