Roy Butler (Australian politician)

Roy Butler
MP
Butler in 2022
Member of the New South Wales Parliament
for Barwon
Incumbent
Assumed office
23 March 2019
Preceded byKevin Humphries
Personal details
Born (1977-03-22) 22 March 1977 (age 47)
Political partyIndependent (2022–present)
Other political
affiliations		Shooters, Fishers and Farmers (2019–2022)
ResidenceMendooran[1]
OccupationWestern Region Manager of the NSW Police
senior vice president of Sporting Shooters Australia
Roy Butler (left) with fellow SFF MP (later independent) Phil Donato at a 2022 Fire Brigade Employees' Union event.

Royal Francis Butler (born 22 March 1977)[2] is an Australian politician who has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since March 2019, representing the electoral district of Barwon as an independent.[3] He is a former member of the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party.[4][5]

Prior to entering politics, Butler was a public servant, working as the Western Region Manager of the NSW Police. He is the senior vice president of Sporting Shooters Australia. He has a master's degree in public administration.[6][7]

On 12 December 2022, Butler resigned from the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party over disparaging comments made by the party leader, Robert Borsak, about former party member-turned-independent MP, Helen Dalton.[8] He easily retained the seat as an independent at the 2023 state election.

  1. ^ "Candidates - The Legislative Assembly District of Barwon". Elections NSW. New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Member for Barwon". Hansard. 23 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Mr (Roy) Royal Francis Butler MP". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  4. ^ McKinnell, Jamie (23 March 2019). "'Massive decline in quality of life' drives NSW bush backlash: Shooters candidate". ABC News. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  5. ^ "NSW Election 2019: Rise of the Shooters party a problem for Scott Morrison". www.news.com.au. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  6. ^ Townsend, Samantha. "Meet the new political faces". The Land. Australian Community Media. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  7. ^ "NSW election: Roy Butler set to clinch Barwon from National Party after 70 years". www.news.com.au. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  8. ^ Raper, Ashleigh (12 December 2022). "Shooters, Fishers and Farmers MPs resign from party over behaviour of leader Robert Borsak". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 12 December 2022.