Val Bird

Valmond James "Val" Bird (14 May 1928 – 19 August 2005) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

He was educated at Ingham State School and after leaving he was a representative for the Golden Fleece Oil Company.

On 14 May 1955 Bird married Valma Jean Burns[1] (divorced 1998) and together had three daughters.

After he had serious fall in 2001 which left in a coma from which he was not expected to emerge, his daughters discovered they had another sister that Bird fathered in his teen years.

[1] When the Independent politician Arthur Coburn retired at the 1969 Queensland state election, Bird took over as the member for Burdekin.