Leon Ashby
Leon is President of the Party, and our #1 Senate candidate for South Australia for the 2010 Federal Election.
Leon and thousands of other Australian landholders have lost property rights due to the Kyoto protocol and other environmental laws, as explained in the following videos: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Schooling
- Kongorong Primary School
- Mt Gambier High School
- One year at Flinders University studying Science subjects
Employment
- 1979–1984: Sharefarmed family dairy farm
- 1984–1989: Family partnership of two SA dairies, and a 12,000-acre beef cattle property in Springsure, QLD
- 1989–2002: Owned 36,000-acre sheep property at Aramac, QLD
- 2002–2005: Owned 1,700-acre fat lamb property next to Lake George, Beachport, SA
- 2006–present: Living on investment portfolio
Family
- Married Jane in 1982
- Five adult children: Stephen, Nathan, Joseph, Shisha and Christa
Community
- President of The Climate Sceptics Party
- President of Bushvision (Rural Community Television)
- Chairman of the Mt Gambier and Districts Community Centre
- Foundation member of the Australian Environment Foundation
- Aramac Landcare secretary 1997–2000
- Radio programme producer and announcer at 5GTR in the 1980s
- Representative in football and cricket for many years at Kongorong and Mt Gambier
Awards
- 2002: Centenary medal for services to Conservation and the Environment
- 1999: Runner-up, Queensland Landcare research award
Personal
- Favourite food: Fish and chips
- Favourite saying: “There’s more than one way to skin a cat”
- Favourite band: U2
- Favourite poet: Banjo Patterson
- Favourite way to relax: Listening to music
- Biggest challenge: Shearing 10,000 sheep with Jane when the wool prices crashed in 1993
- Biggest embarrassment: Drowning a bulldozer in a lake in Queensland in 1998
Politics
- Has never been a member of a political party before the formation of the Climate Sceptics Party
- Tended to vote for candidates for their individual qualities rather than for parties in the lower house