Jarrod Pieter Bleijie (born 25 January 1982) is an Australian politician and LNP member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

. Bleijie was elected as the member for Kawana

Electoral district of Kawana

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 at the 2009 state election

Queensland state election, 2009

The Queensland state election was held to elect members to the unicameral Parliament of Queensland on 21 March 2009. The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a...

, and is the third member since the seat's inception at the 2001 state election.

Life

Jarrod Bleijie was born in Griffith, New South Wales

Griffith, New South Wales

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, the second son of Pieter and Christine (née Cooper). He moved with his family to Caloundra, Queensland

Queensland

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 in 1989. Bleijie attended Griffith Primary School, Caloundra State School, and Caloundra State High School, where he graduated in 2000 as school captain. He studied politics at the University of the Sunshine Coast

University of the Sunshine Coast

The University of the Sunshine Coast is a public university based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Having opened in 1996 as the Sunshine Coast University College with 524 students, the institution was renamed the University of the Sunshine Coast in 1999. In 2011, the student body was...

 before transferring to Brisbane

Brisbane

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 to complete a Bachelor of Laws at Queensland University of Technology

Queensland University of Technology

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. He graduated in 2006.

Bleijie married Sally (Lennox) on 20 December 2002. Jarrod and Sally have two daughters and one son.

Parliamentary Career

Jarrod Bleijie was promoted to the Shadow Ministry as Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for Justice and Corrective Services, by then Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek in November 2010. Following a leadership change in March 2011, with former Brisbane City Lord Mayor Campbell Newman taking over LNP leadership from outside the parliament, Jarrod Bleijie was reappointed Shadow Attorney-General, maintaining his Justice responsibilities and also taking on Fair Trading.

External links

• Bleijie's Website