Councillor
Angela Owen
Brisbane City Councillor for
Calamvale Ward
Assumed office
16 March 2016
Brisbane City Councillor for
Parkinson Ward
In office
2008 – 16 March 2016
Personal details
Political partyLiberal National
Alma materGriffith University
ProfessionAccountant
WebsiteCalamvale Ward page

Angela Carolyn Owen[1] (formerly Owen-Taylor)[2] is an Australian politician who has been a Councillor of Brisbane City Council (BCC), the local government authority for the City of Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland, since 2008.[3]

Political career

Local government

Owen (formerly known as Owen-Taylor) was first elected in 2008 to Brisbane City Council as the inaugural Councillor for the Ward of Parkinson, then re-elected in 2012. After a change in ward boundaries from Parkinson Ward to Calamvale Ward in 2016, Owen was elected as the inaugural Councillor for Calamvale Ward, then re-elected in 2020.[4]

She has additionally served as Chairman of Council.[2] Deputy Chairman of Council, Deputy Chairman of the Finance, Economic Development and Administration Committees, Deputy Chairman of City Business and Local Assets, Deputy Chair of Public and Active Transport as well as Deputy to the Lord Mayor on Multicultural Affairs and International Relations, Chairman of the Sister Cities Committee and Deputy to the Lord Mayor on the $215m City Hall Restoration project.

Federal government

Owen is a member of the Liberal National Party.[5] In March 2019, she was endorsed as the LNP candidate for the Australian House of Representatives in the marginal Brisbane seat of Moreton and contested the 2019 Australian federal election.[6] Owen won on first preference votes; however, the incumbent Labor member marginally retained the seat due to preferences from The Greens.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Notice of Election Results". Electoral Commission of Queensland. 9 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Brisbane City Council Calamvale Ward". Brisbane City Council. 9 August 2019. Archived from the original on 4 February 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  3. ↑ 30 August 2012, Courier-Mail, Key projects in Parkinson ward are progressing well, according to Councillor Angela Owen-Taylor. Retrieved 13 July 2014
  4. ↑ Vidgen, Pat (9 April 2020), Notice of Election Results Local Government Elections (PDF), Electoral Commission Queensland, archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2020
  5. ↑ 29 April 2012, ABC News, 2012 Brisbane City Council Election. Retrieved 13 July 2014, "...Parkinson was a new and notionally Labor held ward first contested at the 2008 election, when a swing of 7.6% delivered victory to Liberal Angela Owen-Taylor...."
  6. ↑ Lynch, Lydia (30 March 2019). "Second Brisbane councillor to run in federal election". The Brisbane Times. Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  7. ↑ Green, Antony (6 June 2019). "Moreton". ABC News. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
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