{{Short description|Australian cook, political aspirant and author (born 1962)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE --> | imagesize = | name = Kate Lamont | honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|AM}} | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1962|10|13}} | birth_place = Perth, Western Australia | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Cook, political aspirant, author, businesswoman. | nationality = Australian | period = | genre = Cooking | subject = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = }} '''Kate Lamont''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 13 October 1962)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3970539 |title=Celebrating / Kate Lamont &#124; National Library of Australia |publisher=Catalogue.nla.gov.au |date= |access-date=2010-06-08}}</ref> is an Australian cook, political aspirant and author.

==Career== Lamont has hospitality interest in the Swan Valley, Margaret River and a bottle shop and bar in Cottesloe, Western Australia. as well as Lamont's Bishops House in Perth, Western Australia.

==Empire Beer Group Limited== In October 2006, Lamont was an inaugural Director of the Empire Beer Group Limited, which ran pubs, brewed beers. Lamont featured in its public prospectus which aimed to raise $10,000,000 AU by way of the issue of shares at an issue price of $0.35 each.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20061025/pdf/3z5rmxh0l4tz1.pdf |title=00660192.tif |date= |access-date=2010-06-08}}</ref>

By December 2007 the stock was trading at $0.16, by July 2008 the stock was trading at $0.05 and by 9 February it was trading at $0.03, a $9 million reduction on the original $10 million raised capital.<ref name="autogenerated2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.asx.com.au/asx/research/companyInfo.do?by=asxCode&allinfo=&asxCode=eee#chart |title=EMPIRE BEER GROUP LIMITED (EEE) - ASX Listed Company Information Fact Sheet |publisher=Asx.com.au |date= |access-date=2010-06-08}}</ref>

On 18 March 2009, Kate Lamont resigned as a non-executive director of Empire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20090319/pdf/31gnw4d8byn449.pdf |title=EMPIRE BEER GROUP LIMITED (EEE) - ASX Listed Company Information Fact Sheet |publisher=Asx.com.au |date= |access-date=2010-06-08}}</ref>

==Political Appointments, Connections and Candidacy==

===Labor Party Appointments=== Lamont was appointed as a board member of Tourism WA Board of Commissioners in 2004, by the Gallop Labor Government and Chairman of Tourism WA by then Labor Tourism Minister Mark McGowan and the WA Labor Government from 1 September 2006<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tourism.wa.gov.au/About_Tourism_Western_Australia/Pages/Board_of_Commissioners_.aspx |title=Board of Commissioners |publisher=Tourism Western Australia |access-date=16 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720133555/http://www.tourism.wa.gov.au/About_Tourism_Western_Australia/Pages/Board_of_Commissioners_.aspx |archive-date=20 July 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> for a 5-year term.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/AdvancedSearch.aspx?ItemId=126529&all=lamont&exact=&any=&none=&admin=&minister=&portfolio=&region= |title=Advanced Search: lamont |publisher=Media Statements |access-date=22 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311100008/http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/AdvancedSearch.aspx?ItemId=126529&all=lamont&exact=&any=&none=&admin=&minister=&portfolio=&region= |archive-date=11 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Lamont was appointed as a board member of Tourism Australia by the Rudd Labor Government and in July 2010 was appointed Deputy Chair of Tourism Australia by Federal Labor Minister Martin Ferguson<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://minister.ret.gov.au/MediaCentre/MediaReleases/Pages/NewTourismAustraliaBoardMembersAnnounced.aspx |title=Tourism Australia's Board Appointments |access-date=8 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327184056/http://minister.ret.gov.au/MediaCentre/MediaReleases/Pages/NewTourismAustraliaBoardMembersAnnounced.aspx |archive-date=27 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Liberal Party Candidate=== In April 2012 WA Premier Colin Barnett confirmed that he had discussed pre-selection for the Liberal Party for the State Seat of Churchlands with Lamont and his media advisor Dixie Marshall and subsequently sought an extension of the nomination period to allow the nomination to occur. A story in the West Australian on 3 May 2012 suggested the nomination was causing a revolt in Liberal ranks with Party sources questioning how close Lamont was to Labor State and Federal Figures.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/news/13592481/gender-high-on-liberal-agenda/ |title= Gender high on Liberal agenda }}</ref>

==Books and media== * ''Family, Food and Friends'' (2000) {{ISBN|1-86368-293-7}} * ''A Year in the Kitchen with Kate Lamont'' (2004) {{ISBN|978-1-920731-34-2}} * ''Celebrating'' (2007) {{ISBN|978-1-921361-00-5}} * ''Wine and Food'' (2009) {{ISBN|978-1-921401-33-6}}

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