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Place of Birth: Jandowae, Queensland, Australia
About Ray Hopper
- Raymond Gordon Hopper (born 3 March 1960) is a former Australian politician.
- He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2001 to 2015.
- Originally elected as the member for Darling Downs as an independent in 2001, he joined the National Party later that year and the Liberal National Party in 2008. On the abolition of his seat of Darling Downs in 2008, Hopper was elected as the member for Condamine.
- On 24 November 2012, Hopper resigned from the Liberal National Party and joined Katter's Australian Party.
- Hopper claimed that the LNP had been a takeover by the old Liberal Party at the expense of the National Party, even though most LNP MPs were former Nationals like him.
- He accused the LNP of deliberately purging National influence from the party.
- Hopper claimed to have spoken to eight other LNP backbenchers who were considering defection, but this did not eventuate.On 29 November it was announced that he had become the party's leader in Queensland, taking over from Robbie Katter, the son of the party's founder, Bob Katter.
- He contested Nanango for the party in 2015, but was defeated.
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