Murray Montgomery

{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}} '''Murray Scott Montgomery''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 15 January 1943) is a former Australian politician.

He was born at [[Mount Barker, Western Australia|Mount Barker]] and was a farmer before entering politics. In 1989 he was elected to the [[Western Australian Legislative Council]] as a [[National Party of Australia (WA)|National]] member for [[Electoral region of South West|South West]]. From 1989 to 1992 he was party spokesman on Sport and Recreation, Youth and South West, and from 1992 to 1993 spoke on Sport and Recreation for the [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]]. From 1993 he was Deputy Chairman of Committees. Montgomery retired from politics in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament%5CMemblist.nsf/WAllMembersFlat/Montgomery,+Murray+Scott?opendocument|title=The Hon. Murray Scott Montgomery MLC|publisher=[[Parliament of Western Australia]]}}</ref> He was appointed a [[Order of Australia|Member of the Order of Australia]] in the [[2021 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)|2021 Queen's Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Honourable Murray Scott Montgomery|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2009354|access-date=2021-06-13|website=It's An Honour}}</ref>

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