He is running to regain his old seat at the 2021 state election with the Western Australia Party.
Grills was born in Birmingham, England and arrived in Western Australia in 1965.
[1] He also previously served as a local government councillor on two separate occasions, first at the Shire of Leonora and then the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
[2] As a representative of the vast Mining and Pastoral electorate, Grills criticised the use of fly-in fly-out operational workers by mining companies in Western Australia on the grounds that it undermines regional development efforts and called for a state policy on transient worker accommodation.
[3] In August 2020, it was announced that he had joined the Western Australia Party and would be contesting the Mining and Pastoral Region for them at the 2021 state election.