predecessor successor parliament birth_place constituency_mp nationality party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation
john brown ross cameron australian ballina , new south wales parramatta australian australian labor party 24 september 1954 24 march 1990 paul elliott -lrb- politician -rrb-
 2 march 1996 paul elliott public servant
paul elliott -lrb- politician -rrb-

robert paul elliott -lrb- born 24 september 1954 -rrb- is an australian politician .
he was a labor member of the australian house of representatives from 1990 to 1996 , representing the division of parramatta .
elliott was born in ballina , new south wales and earned a bachelor of arts and a mlitt at the university of new england .
he worked as a lecturer at the university of western sydney , a public servant and an electoral officer to labor mp john brown .
he was elected as an alderman on parramatta city council in 1977 and was mayor from 1984 to 1986 .
following the retirement of john brown , elliott was elected to federal parliament at the 1990 election .
he was appointed parliamentary secretary to the treasurer in the keating government in december 1993 .
in june 1994 , he became parliamentary secretary to the minister for communications and the arts and parliamentary secretary to the minister for tourism as well .
he was defeated at the 1996 election .
