Mr McGrady is a member of the Australian Labor Party and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in 1989 as the Member for Mount Isa after 16 years from 1973 as an Alderman on the Mount Isa City Council and as Mayor for the last five years. Tony was Minister for Mines and Energy from 1998 to 2001, moving to Police and Corrective Services in 2001 and then to State Development and Innovation in 2004. He was subsequently elected as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in 2005 and retained that role until his retirement from State politics in 2006. At the 2012 Queensland local government elections, he was again elected Mayor of Mount Isa and held the position until retiring in 2016. He currently chairs the Queensland Premier's Ambassadors Council, the CopperString Regional Reference Group and LifeFlight's Advisory Committee for the North-West Region and is a Federal Government appointee to the Riversleigh World Heritage Committee.
