Darren Grimwade

Who is Darren Grimwade?

Darren John Grimwade is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland since 2012, representing the electorate of Morayfield.

Grimwade was born in Redcliffe. He worked as a baker and as a director of a taxation franchise before buying a pizza cafe in Burpengary in 2007, which he was operating at the time of his election to parliament. He was awarded Queensland Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008.

Grimwade was elected to the Legislative Assembly at the 2012 state election, defeating Labor MP Mark Ryan to win the formerly safe Labor seat of Morayfield as part of the Liberal National Party's landslide victory at that election.

He was appointed as a member of the Transport, Housing and Local Government Committee upon his election. He was one of five LNP MPs forced to apologise in August 2012 after falsely claiming that the state's debt level was $100 billion instead of the correct figure of $65 billion.