Dick was first elected to Federal Parliament in 1993 and was re-elected in 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 and again in 2010. Placing his office in his electorate at Perth, instead of in Launceston, Dick set his agenda to being a champion for small towns and rural areas.
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From 2006 Dick was allotted a second electorate office, because of the size of the electorate, and this is located at New Norfolk.
Since his election, Dick has set up his offices to be able to spend as much time as he possibly can in the electorate doing a tour around with his mobile office whenever Federal Parliament is not sitting. He travels well over 50,000km a year talking to people, solving problems and visiting activities in Lyons.
In his first speech to Parliament, Dick said that although the electorate boundaries have changed over the years, Lyons is still made up of small isolated communities. He said he felt he was originally elected because "people saw him as a local, somebody who would always be prepared to go into bat for anybody on the bottom rung and for people who were often passed over by those in larger cities...."
