PERSONAL PROFILE: GRAEME MOORHOUSE To allow QJA Members to get to know something of the background, work experience, qualifications and life-story of our two new QJA Board Members, this issue of the Journal includes brief autobiographies of each. This is the Graeme Moorhouse story: Family I am married to Margaret and we live at Alexandra Hills in Redland City with her 21-year-old daughter Kaytlin and our two dogs. We are fortunate to live in a quiet pocket next to a platypus sanctuary with bush one house away.
Graeme, Kaytlin & Margaret at Kaytlin’s formal in 2012
I do not have any children of my own but have been blessed with three wonderful step-children in my life. Kaytlin, who still lives with us, is the youngest. Her brother Anthony lives in Brisbane and from my previous marriage, Lauren, who is the eldest of my three step-children, lives in the next suburb away.
Director for a large United States based organisation and where I was marketing to airlines in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. For those people who remember the movie Slumdog Millionaire, I knew where most of the scenes were shot and regularly drove past them going to and from my office. Through some personal tragedies, I was a full-time carer for nearly three years and gave up my career in Information Technology. These circumstances caused me to re-invent my career and I have become a factual investigator and am licenced in Queensland. I specialise in personal injury insurance claims. Education & Qualifications I have a Master of Business Administration, a PostGraduate Diploma in Management and a Certificate III in Investigative Services. Origins Both Margaret and I grew up in New Zealand. I moved to Australia pursuing my career in 1975 and Margaret moved in 2007. We fortunately met each other at the end of 2007. All our immediate families live in Australia including my mother who has just turned 86 years of age and is still a keen traveller with her husband. Social interests We love to travel as often as possible even if this is just for a weekend away but have had many great overseas holidays and are currently planning our next big adventure to Europe next year. A chance for me to show Margaret some of Europe and we will also incorporate a river cruise. We are both rugby tragics and take every opportunity we can to watch rugby and weekends during rugby season will often involve hours of watching. We definitely want to visit Hong Kong for the Rugby Sevens sometime in the future. We also love watching netball and I am the scorer for the team that Kaytlin plays for. Margaret and I love food and wine and we love particularly Malaysian and Indian cuisines and will eat curries several times each week.
Graeme, Margaret and family at Christmas 2016
Business Career I had a long and successful career in corporate Information Technology culminating in being head of IT for two separate organisations with the last of these experiencing life as an expatriate in Brunei Darussalam – and yes, I met the Sultan on more than one occasion. I was in Brunei for just over four years and I was the only Australian Justice of the Peace in the country for all the Australian expats. After Brunei, I moved to India where I became the Regional 4
Serving Queensland’s Honorary Justices since 1918
Graeme & Margaret feeding a Sun Bear in Bali
JP/QJA background I have been a Justice of the Peace in Queensland for nearly 27 years and have been a member of the QJA for the same time. I am an active member of the Redland City Branch of the QJA and regularly give my time at Capalaba Central and Birkdale Shopping Centres on Thursday evenings and Saturday morning.