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Safe Labor seat, held since 1915! Between Mackay Airport in the south and Slade Point in the north. Includes Andergrove, parts of Beaconsfield and Glenella and the port of Mackay (rated as the world's largest bulk sugar port). 80 square kilometres. |
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BEN GAUCI was born and raised in Mackay and attended Mirani High School. During his younger years he took part in many extra curricular activities from singing, dancing, acting and playing the piano to playing rugby league, competitive horse riding, sports shooting and boxing making him an experienced team player with well rounded skills. Growing up in Finch Hatton, he also enjoyed riding push bikes to local swimming holes, fishing, camping, archery, shooting and dirt bike riding, enjoying freedoms that are gone for the youth of today. Ben has never been afraid of hard work and is ever willing to try something new. He rode track for a local police officer who managed three race horses before school; and was employed at Netherdale Foods as a factory hand during school holidays. After year 12 graduation he moved to Sydney to start his butchers' apprenticeship at Brennans' Quality Meats. Upon return to Finch Hatton he continued working for the same company where he attained his forklift and heavy rigid truck licences. He was promoted to Yard Supervisor shortly after gaining the above qualifications. At age 21, Ben began working at Mackay Sugar, first as a rail maintenance worker and train drivers' assistant, later as a train driver and then as a traffic officer and bridge carpenter. The first several years with Mackay Sugar were seasonal employment, but he continued to work as a local butcher and took on other jobs such as insurance sales, fire extinguisher servicing and preparing vehicles for paint and radiator repairs at a panel shop, he even returned to Sydney one year to work delivering Freedom Furniture around the CBD. Injuries from a car accident interrupted Ben’s working life. He found he could no longer do the work he had experience and qualifications for so he changed vocation again and worked as a line fisherman in the waters north of Cooktown until his injuries ended yet another career. He has since been a carer for his late father and is now ready to tackle a new career in politics. Having gained skills, experience and insight from many years in varied workplaces and occupations, he believes he has the perspective to properly represent the people of his great state.
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