The Hon Scott Buchholz MP GradCertBus MBA
Federal Member for Wright in the House of Representatives
Deputy Chair of Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit
Deputy Chair of Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services
The Hon. Scott Buchholz MP is the Federal Member for Wright in the Australian House of Representatives. First elected at the 2010 Federal Election. He currently serves as Deputy Chair of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit and Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services. He is also a member of the Speaker’s Panel and regularly deputises for the Speaker in the House of Representatives.
Scott holds a Graduate Certificate of Business and a Master of Business Administration with a major in International Business from the University of Southern Queensland. His postgraduate studies encompassed strategic management, international commerce, organisational leadership and global business operations.
Before entering Parliament, Scott worked in the banking sector, specialising in agricultural finance and later established a successful transport and logistics business. In 1992, he founded CQX Transport and later Toowoomba Express Couriers and served as Managing Director until his election to the Commonwealth Parliament in 2010. Through this period, he developed extensive experience in transport, logistics, business management and regional commerce.
Since entering Parliament, Scott has held a number of senior parliamentary and ministerial appointments. Following the election of the Coalition Government in 2013, he was appointed Government Whip in the House of Representatives, and was subsequently appointed Chief Government Whip.
In 2018, Scott Buchholz was appointed Assistant Minister for Roads and Transport and to the Federal Executive Council. Following the 2019 Federal Election, he was appointed Assistant Minister for Road Safety and Freight Transport. In Opposition, he served as Shadow Minister for Skills and Training.
Previous committee service includes:
- House of Representatives Standing on Economics;
- House of Representatives Standing on Procedure;
- House of Representatives Standing on Selection;
- House of Representatives Standing on Petitions;
- House of Representatives Standing on Appropriations and Administration;
- House of Representatives Standing on Petitions;
- House of Representatives Standing on Privileges and Members’ Interests;
- House of Representatives Standing on Regional Development, Infrastructure and Transport;
- Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters served as Chair;
- Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth served as Deputy Chair;
- Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade;
- Joint Statutory Committee on Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity;
- Joint Statutory Committee on Public Works, and served as Chair;
- Joint Statutory Committee on Public Accounts and Audit, and served as Deputy Chair;
- Joint Statutory Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, and served as Deputy Chair.
In addition to his domestic parliamentary responsibilities, Scott has represented Australia on a number of official parliamentary delegations and international forums. He was a member of the Australian parliamentary delegation to China in 2014 and to Canada and the United States in 2015. In 2018, he attended the 26th Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum Annual Meeting in Vietnam, where he chaired the working group on combating international terrorism and trans-border crime.
More recently, Scott participated in parliamentary delegations to New Zealand and Samoa in June 2023 and to Sweden and the United Kingdom in October 2023. These delegations formed part of Australia’s parliamentary diplomacy program and provided opportunities for engagement with counterpart legislatures, government officials and policy institutions.
Over more than fifteen years in the Commonwealth Parliament, Scott Buchholz has held senior parliamentary leadership positions, ministerial office, shadow ministerial responsibilities and significant committee appointments. His career has encompassed service in government and opposition, leadership roles within the House of Representatives, oversight of major areas of public administration, and representation of Australia through parliamentary delegations and international engagement.