Val Schier
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Valerie "Val" Jean Schier is the current mayor of the Cairns Regional Council, Queensland
, Australia
.
Val was born on 22 April 1950 and grew up in Falmouth, a small village on the north east coast of Tasmania
. She moved to Cairns in 1982 and bought a house at Machans Beach in 1984.
Val has one son, James Louis Wilson, who married Kim Le Cras on 9 January 2009.
She has a Bachelor of Arts (1970) and a Diploma of Education (1975) from the University of Tasmania and a Graduate Diploma of Business Management from the University of Central Queensland (1994). On 15 March 2008, Val Schier was elected Mayor of the newly amalgamated Cairns Regional Council.
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Val was born on 22 April 1950 and grew up in Falmouth, a small village on the north east coast of Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
. She moved to Cairns in 1982 and bought a house at Machans Beach in 1984.
Val has one son, James Louis Wilson, who married Kim Le Cras on 9 January 2009.
She has a Bachelor of Arts (1970) and a Diploma of Education (1975) from the University of Tasmania and a Graduate Diploma of Business Management from the University of Central Queensland (1994). On 15 March 2008, Val Schier was elected Mayor of the newly amalgamated Cairns Regional Council.