David Honey

David John Honey (born 18 April 1958) is an Australian politician. He is the current Shadow Minister for Industrial Development; Water; Lands and the Liberal Party's Legislative Assembly Policy Co-ordinator. He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as a Liberal Party member for the electoral district of Cottesloe in a by-election on 17 March 2018, following the resignation of former Premier Colin Barnett.

Honey completed a Bachelor of Science with 1st Class Honours and a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Western Australia. He has held technical roles including as a Forensic Scientist and Environmental Scientist with the State Government and also formed the Hydrometallurgy Research Group for Western Australian Mining Corporation.

Honey was formerly the Global Residue Manager for Alcoa's Refining operations, having overall accountability for the refining residue operations in the United States, Spain, Brazil and Australia. Prior to this role, David has held senior management and technical roles in Alcoa. He joined Alcoa as a Senior Principal Research Scientist in the Global Refining Centre of Excellence before moving on to the positions of: Clarification Manager, Pinjarra Refinery; Digestion manager, Kwinana Refinery, Production Manager, Kwinana Refinery; and Western Australian Operations Residue Manager.

From 2012 to 2018 he was the President of the Kwinana Industries Council, a lobby group representing chemical, petroleum, cement and other firms in Kwinana.[1]

During his time as party president, Honey was aligned to controversial power broker Noel Crichton-Browne but when Crichton-Browne made inappropriate sexual comments to journalist Colleen Egan at a Liberal Party conference, Dr Honey then initiated the successful motion to expel Crichton-Browne from the party.[2] [3]