Tracey Winters
Current Positions
Strategic Adviser of External Affairs, Santos Ltd (2019 – Present) [3]
Non Executive Director, Queensland Rail (Oct 2020 – Present)
Previous Positions
Principal Policy Advisor and Chief of Staff, Federal Minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism, Martin Ferguson (and previously shadow minister) (Nov 2003-Nov 2010) [1] [2]
Mining Connections
Strategic Adviser of External Affairs, Santos Ltd (2019 – Present) [3]
Head of Government and Public Affairs, Santos Ltd (Nov 2017-2019) [3]
Advisor, Caltex Australia (Aug 2016-Sept 2017) [3]
Vice President Surat Asset Management (Mar 2015-Aug 2016), Vice President Land and Environment (Jul 2013-Mar 2015), Vice President Environment (Feb 2011- Jul 2013) BG Group / Queensland Gas Company (QGC) [3]
Consultant Government Affairs, Sasol Chevron (Jun 2000-Dec 2002) [3]
Consultant Government Approvals, Woodside Energy (Oct 1996-Dec 1999) [3]
[1] Martin Ferguson was resources Minister between Dec 2007-Oct 2010 (and Shadow Minister between Oct 2004-Dec 2007). Joel Fitzgibbon was Shadow Minister between Dec 2003-Oct 2004. Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracey-winters-ab863b28/ (Viewed 21/12/18)
[2] Winters was Ferguson’s advisor in March 2010 – at the time of BG Group/QGC’s sale of Queensland’s gas reserves in Beijing (facilitated by Ferguson). The sale occurred prior to state and commonwealth approvals of Australia’s first east coast CSG-LNG projects (Santos GLNG and BG Group/QGC’s QCLNG projects). Source 1: https://www.michaelwest.com.au/the-great-gas-con-how-we-got-sucked-dry/ (Viewed 21/12/18). Source 2: https://www.michaelwest.com.au/the-second-british-invasion-how-royal-cronies-and-the-gas-debacle-took-australia-for-billions/ (Viewed 21/12/18). Winters’ partner, Dr Craig Emerson, was the federal Trade Minister at the time of the Commonwealth’s environmental approvals for the projects (in October 2010). Source 3: https://jeremybuckingham.org/2015/03/27/revolving-doors-queensland/ (Viewed 21/12/18)
[3] See LinkedIn profile of Tracey Winters. Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracey-winters-ab863b28/ (Viewed 21/12/18)
Simone Marsh was a senior environmental analyst with the Queensland Co-ordinator General. After filing her report on the environmental effects of the proposed LNG industry in June 2010, she walked out of her job and was not heard of again in the media until she testified as a whistleblower at the Queensland government parliamentary inquiry into Queensland government administration of Commonwealth government affairs in November 2014.