Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 2009–2012
Encyclopedia
This is a list of members 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...

 from 2009 to 2012, as elected at the 2009 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...

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Name Party District
Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts
This is a list of current and former electoral divisions for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the state legislature for Queensland, Australia.-Districts in Far North Queensland:*Barron River*Cairns*Cook*Mulgrave*Dalrymple...

First elected
Julie Attwood
Julie Attwood
Julie Maree Attwood is an Australian Labor Party Member of the Queensland Parliament for the seat of Mount Ommaney. Elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1998, she was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Child Safety on 21 September 2006.Attwood obtained a...

 
Labor
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 
Mount Ommaney
Electoral district of Mount Ommaney
The district of Mount Ommaney is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1992 redistribution....

 
1998–present
Ros Bates
Ros Bates
Rosslyn Mary Bates is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal National Party member of the Parliament of Queensland since March 2009, representing the electorate of Mudgeeraba.-Member for Mudgeeraba:...

 
LNP  Mudgeeraba
Electoral district of Mudgeeraba
The district of Mudgeeraba is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Based on the Gold Coast, the district has been held by both sides of politics over the course of its short history....

 
2009–present
Jarrod Bleijie
Jarrod Bleijie
Jarrod Pieter Bleijie is an Australian politician and LNP member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Bleijie was elected as the member for Kawana at the 2009 state election, and is the third member since the seat's inception at the 2001 state election.- Life :Jarrod Bleijie was born in...

 
LNP Kawana
Electoral district of Kawana
The district of Kawana is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Based on the Sunshine Coast, the district has been held by both sides of politics over its short history.-Geography:...

 
2009–present
Hon Anna Bligh
Anna Bligh
Anna Maria Bligh is an Australian politician and the Premier of Queensland since 2007. The 2009 Queensland state election was the first time a female-led political party won or retained state or federal government in Australia...

 
Labor South Brisbane
Electoral district of South Brisbane
The district of South Brisbane is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. The electorate encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's inner-south, stretching from East Brisbane to West End, and south to Fairfield...

 
1995–present
Hon Desley Boyle
Desley Boyle
Desley Carole Boyle is an Australian Labor Party politician. Boyle represents the electoral district of Cairns, Queensland in the Queensland Legislative Assembly and was elected in the 1998 State election-Career:...

 
Labor Cairns
Electoral district of Cairns
The electoral district of Cairns is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia.The division encompasses the central business district and inner-suburbs of Cairns, in Far North Queensland...

 
1998–present
Michael Choi
Michael Choi (politician)
Michael Wai-Man Choi is an Australian politician. He represents the electoral district of Capalaba in the Queensland Legislative Assembly and is a member of the Australian Labor Party....

 
Labor Capalaba
Electoral district of Capalaba
The district of Capalaba is an electoral division of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia. The electorate is centred on the suburb of Capalaba, in Redlands Shire east of Brisbane, and includes parts of the adjoining suburbs of Alexandra Hills and...

 
2001–present
Michael Crandon
Michael Crandon
Michael John Crandon is an Australian politician. He was first elected for the seat of Coomera to the Queensland State Parliament for the Liberal National Party of Queensland at the 2009 Queensland Election.-References:...

 
LNP Coomera
Electoral district of Coomera
The district of Coomera is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Based at the northern end of the Gold Coast, the district is a marginal one.-Geography:...

 
2009–present
Andrew Cripps
Andrew Cripps
Andrew Peter Cripps is an Australian politician and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was born in Tully, Queensland, Australia, and was elected for The Nationals in September 2006 to represent electoral district of Hinchinbrook, replacing the retiring National Party MP, Marc Rowell...

 
LNP Hinchinbrook
Electoral district of Hinchinbrook
The district of Hinchinbrook is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district in its present form is a narrow coastal strip running from just south of Innisfail to just north of Townsville; though neither town is part of the electorate....

 
2006–present
Peta-Kaye Croft
Peta-Kaye Croft
Peta-Kaye Croft is an Australian politician.In 2001 she was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the seat of Broadwater for the Labor Party. She was born in Mount Isa and lived in Townsville and Brisbane during her early years...

 
Labor Broadwater
Electoral district of Broadwater
The district of Broadwater is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia. It was created at the 1991 redistribution.The electorate is based on the northern end of the Gold Coast...

 
2001–present
Liz Cunningham
Liz Cunningham
Elizabeth Anne "Liz" Cunningham is an Australian politician. She has been an independent member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 1995, representing the electorate of Gladstone...

 
Independent Gladstone
Electoral district of Gladstone
The district of Gladstone is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The current member is independent Liz Cunningham who won the seat on National Party preferences after defeating then Labor MP Neil Bennett at the 1995 election...

 
1995–present
Vicky Darling
Vicky Darling
Vicky Elizabeth Darling is a Labor politician elected to the Queensland State Parliament in September 2006 as the member for the safe seat of Sandgate....

 
Labor Sandgate
Electoral district of Sandgate
The district of Sandgate is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.It is located in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, covering Sandgate, Shorncliffe, Deagon, Brighton, Bracken Ridge, Fitzgibbon, and Taigum...

 
2006–present
Tracy Davis
Tracy Davis
Tracy Ellen Davis is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal National Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2009, representing the district of Aspley....

 
LNP Aspley
Electoral district of Aspley
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2009–present
Jack Dempsey
Jack Dempsey (politician)
John Mark Dempsey is an Australian politician. He represents the division of Bundaberg in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, and was first elected at the 2006 State election, originally for the National Party...

 
LNP Bundaberg
Electoral district of Bundaberg
The division of Bundaberg is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in central Queensland, Australia.It covers the city of Bundaberg, as well as the immediate surrounding area, hence its name....

 
2006–present
Hon Cameron Dick
Cameron Dick
The Honourable Cameron Robert Dick MP is the Australian Labor Party representative of the seat of Greenslopes in the Queensland Legislative Assembly...

 
Labor Greenslopes
Electoral district of Greenslopes
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2009–present
Steve Dickson
Steve Dickson
Steve Dickson is an Australian Politician and member of the Queensland State Parliament. He represents the Sunshine Coast seat of Buderim. He was a member of the Liberal Party until the merger of the Liberal and National parties...

 
LNP Buderim
Electoral district of Buderim
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2006–present
Dr Alex Douglas
Alex Douglas (politician)
Dr Alexander Rodney Douglas is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal National Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2009, representing the district of Gaven...

 
LNP Gaven
Electoral district of Gaven
The district of Gaven is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created out of the former district of Nerang and the southern segment of Albert in the 2001 redistribution, and is based around the northern growth corridor of the Gold Coast...

 
2006, 2009–present
Peter Dowling
Peter Dowling
Peter James Dowling is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal National Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2009....

 
LNP Redlands
Electoral district of Redlands
The district of Redlands is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It primarily covers coastal suburbs on the southside of the city of Brisbane, from Thornlands south to the Logan River.-Members for Redlands:...

 
2009–present
Glen Elmes
Glen Elmes
Glen Elmes is a LNP politician in Queensland, representing the state seat of Noosa since the 2006 election. Elmes represents the Liberal National Party....

 
LNP Noosa
Electoral district of Noosa
The district of Noosa is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district on the Sunshine Coast in the Australian state of Queensland. The electorate is centred on Noosa and stretches northwest to the southern border of Gympie, south to Peregian Springs and west to Eumundi.The seat is currently...

 
2006–present
Scott Emerson
Scott Emerson
Scott Anthony Emerson is an Australian politician and former journalist. He has been a Liberal National Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2009, representing the electoral district of Indooroopilly in Brisbane's inner-west.- Biography :Emerson was born in Ipswich Queensland,...

 
LNP Indooroopilly
Electoral district of Indooroopilly
The district of Indooroopilly is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the western suburbs of Brisbane, and straddles both sides of the Brisbane River. It is named for the suburb of Indooroopilly and also includes the...

 
2009–present
Di Farmer
Di Farmer
Dianne Elizabeth "Di" Farmer is an Australian politician. She was first elected for the seat of Bulimba to the Queensland State Parliament for the Australian Labor Party at the 2009 Queensland election....

 
Labor Bulimba
Electoral district of Bulimba
-External links:*...

 
2009–present
Simon Finn
Simon Finn (politician)
Simon David Finn was first elected to the seat of Yeerongpilly in the Queensland State Parliament on 7 February 2004. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party....

 
Labor Yeerongpilly
Electoral district of Yeerongpilly
The district of Yeerongpilly is a Legislative Assembly electorate the state of Queensland. Named for the suburb with the same name, the electorate was renamed before the 2001 elections, from the previous name of Yeronga. While only one of the three Yeronga members were Labor, the seat has been...

 
2004–present
Dr Bruce Flegg
Bruce Flegg
Dr Bruce Flegg is the Queensland Shadow Ministerfor Education, Training and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and the Member for Moggill having been elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2006 and 2009....

 
LNP Moggill
Electoral district of Moggill
The district of Moggill is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia. The electorate is held by the former leader of the Queensland state Liberal Party, Dr...

 
2004–present
Chris Foley
Chris Foley (Australian politician)
Christopher John "Chris" Foley is an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane, he became a certified financial planner and received a Diploma in Christian Doctrine and Practice, was an Associate in Theology, and became a Justice of the Peace...

 
Independent Maryborough
Electoral district of Maryborough
The district of Maryborough is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is centred on the regional city of Maryborough and takes in other surrounding communities....

 
2003–present
Hon Andrew Fraser
Andrew Fraser (Queensland politician)
Andrew Peter Fraser is an Australian politician in the Queensland State Parliament. He was first elected into the Queensland Legislative Assembly on the 7 February 2004...

 
Labor Mount Coot-tha
Electoral district of Mount Coot-tha
The district of Mount Coot-tha is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia.The electoral district encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's inner-west, including Milton, Auchenflower, Paddington, Bardon and parts of the suburbs of Toowong and Ashgrove...

 
2004–present
David Gibson
David Gibson (Australian politician)
David Francis Gibson is an Australian politician. Born in Fremantle, Western Australia, he graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon before moving to Queensland, where he became manager of The Gympie Times....

 
LNP Gympie
Electoral district of Gympie
The district of Gympie is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland The electorate is centred on the city of Gympie and stretches north to Rainbow Beach and as far south to Pomona....

 
2006–present
Grace Grace
Grace Grace
Ignazia Graziella Grace, usually known as Grace Grace is an Australian politician, representing the electoral district of Brisbane Central in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since the October 2007 by-election...

 
Labor Brisbane Central
Electoral district of Brisbane Central
The district of Brisbane Central is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.As its name suggests, the electorate covers the central portion of Brisbane. It includes the Brisbane central business district as well as the inner suburbs of Bowen Hills, Fortitude Valley, Herston,...

 
2007–present
Hon Stirling Hinchliffe
Stirling Hinchliffe
Stirling James Hinchliffe is an Australian politician. Born in Dalby, Queensland, he was educated at state schools and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland. He was a property industry analyst, policy manager, policy advisor and executive officer before his entry into...

 
Labor Stafford
Electoral district of Stafford
The district of Stafford is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in the state of Queensland, Australia.It is located in the inner northern residential suburbs of Brisbane. Suburbs in the electorate include Stafford, Chermside, Gordon Park, Kedron, Lutwyche, Stafford Heights and...

 
2006–present
Howard Hobbs
Howard Hobbs
Howard William Thomas Hobbs is an Australian politician representing the seat of Warrego in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 1 November 1986. He was a member of the National Party of Australia until the Queensland division merged with the Liberal party to form the Liberal National Party...

 
LNP Warrego
Electoral district of Warrego
The district of Warrego is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The electorate lies in the extreme southwest of Queensland, running along the western part of the border with New South Wales...

 
1986–present
Paul Hoolihan
Paul Hoolihan
Paul Anthony Hoolihan represents the seat of Keppel in the Queensland State Parliament as a member of the Australian Labor Party since 2004.-References:...

 
Labor Keppel
Electoral district of Keppel
The district of Keppel is an electoral district in the state of Queensland, Australia.The electoral district encompasses the central Queensland coast from the mouth of the Fitzroy River in the south to Shoalwater Bay to the north...

 
2004–present
Ray Hopper
Ray Hopper
Raymond Gordon Hopper is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2001. Originally elected as an independent in 2001, he joined the National Party later that year and the Liberal National Party in 2008...

 
LNP Condamine
Electoral district of Condamine
The district of Condamine is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Condamine takes in areas to the north-west, west and south of Toowoomba. It includes the towns of Dalby, Oakey, Pittsworth and Clifton. The district is named for the Condamine River...

 
2001–present
Mike Horan
Mike Horan
Michael James "Mike" Horan is an Australian politician representing the seat of Toowoomba South in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 18 May 1991. He was the Shadow Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries and now serves as Opposition Whip...

 
LNP Toowoomba South
Electoral district of Toowoomba South
The district of Toowoomba South is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1972 redistribution, and replaced the abolished Toowoomba East....

 
1991–present
Jan Jarratt
Jan Jarratt
Janice Heather "Jan" Jarratt is an Australian politician. She was a teacher specialising in children with learning difficulties before entering parliament. A member of the Australian Labor Party, she was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly for the seat of Whitsunday in 2001...

 
Labor Whitsunday
Electoral district of Whitsunday
The district of Whitsunday is an electoral division in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Queensland, Australia.It encompasses the Whitsunday Islands as well as mainland centres from Bowen to the northern suburbs of Mackay, Queensland, including the tourist resort of Airlie Beach and the sugar...

 
2001–present
Vaughan Johnson
Vaughan Johnson (politician)
Vaughan Gregory Johnson is an Australian politician. Born in Bourke, New South Wales, he was a grazier and contractor before entering politics. Having moved to Queensland, he was a councillor on Quilpie Shire Council from 1970 to 1973. From 1972 to 1973 he was Chairman of the Quilpie Branch of the...

 
LNP Gregory
Electoral district of Gregory
The district of Gregory is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in Queensland, Australia.-Members for Gregory:-Election results:-External links:*...

 
1989–present
Mandy Johnstone
Mandy Johnstone
Amanda Ann "Mandy" Johnstone is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2009, representing Townsville. Mandy Johnstone is also the first female politician elected to the seat of Townsville. -References:...

 
Labor Townsville
Electoral district of Townsville
The district of Townsville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland, and covers the Eastern and Northern suburbs of the City of Townsville as well as Magnetic Island and...

 
2009–present
Hon Kate Jones  Labor Ashgrove
Electoral district of Ashgrove
The division of Ashgrove is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.It is located in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, encompassing Alderley, Ashgrove, Enoggera, The Gap, and Newmarket...

 
2006–present
Hon Margaret Keech
Margaret Keech
Margaret Majella Keech is an Australian politician and is a member of for the Labor Party.In 2001 she was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the seat of Albert and is currently the Government Whip...

 
Labor Albert
Electoral district of Albert
The electoral district of Albert is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland. Albert is named for the Albert River, which runs through the electorate and separates Logan City from Gold Coast City...

 
2001–present
Betty Kiernan
Betty Kiernan
Betty Margaret Kiernan is an Australian politician. Born in Mount Isa, Queensland, she was an electorate officer and corporate manager before entering politics, and had served on Cloncurry Shire Council from 1981 to 1990. A member of the Australian Labor Party, she was elected to the Queensland...

 
Labor Mount Isa
Electoral district of Mount Isa
The district of Mount Isa is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia.It is located in the west of the State and covers an area of 570,502 sq kilometres...

 
2006–present
Steve Kilburn
Steve Kilburn
Steven Andrew "Steve" Kilburn is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2009, representing the seat of Chatsworth....

 
Labor Chatsworth
Electoral district of Chatsworth
The district of Chatsworth is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The electorate is centred on the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane and stretches north to Tingalpa, west to Carina Heights, east to Tingalpa Creek and south to Bulimba...

 
2009–present
Shane Knuth
Shane Knuth
Shane Andrew Knuth is an Australian politician. He has represented the seats of Charters Towers and Dalrymple in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, for the National Party , the Liberal National Party and Katter's Australian Party .Knuth was born in the Queensland town of Tully...

 
LNP/Katter's Australian Party
Katter's Australian Party
Katter's Australian Party is a registered political party in Australia. It was formed by the independent Federal Member of Parliament Bob Katter with a registration application lodged to the Australian Electoral Commission on 3 June 2011...

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Dalrymple
Electoral district of Dalrymple
The district of Dalrymple is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.-Geography:Based in inland northern Queensland, Dalrymple is a north–south elongated electorate, running from the Atherton Tableland west of Cairns at its northern end, down to areas...

 
2004–present
John-Paul Langbroek
John-Paul Langbroek
John-Paul Honoré Langbroek is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly representing the Liberal Party and its successor, the centre-right Liberal National Party, in the seat of Surfers Paradise since 2004...

 
LNP Surfers Paradise
Electoral district of Surfers Paradise
The district of Surfers Paradise is an electoral district of the State of Queensland in Australia.-Members for Surfers Paradise:-Election results:-External links:*...

 
2004–present
Hon Peter Lawlor
Peter Lawlor
Peter Lawlor is the Queensland Minister for Tourism and Fair Trading and the Australian Labor Party Member for Southport in the Queensland State Parliament...

 
Labor Southport
Electoral district of Southport
The district of Southport is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the northern part of the Gold Coast. It is named for the suburb of Southport, and also includes the suburbs of Arundel, Ernest, Labrador, Molendinar and...

 
2001–present
Hon Paul Lucas
Paul Lucas (politician)
Paul Thomas Lucas is the Attorney-General of Queensland and Minister for Local Government and Special Minister of State in the Bligh Labor Government and the Member for Lytton...

 
Labor Lytton
Electoral district of Lytton
The district of Lytton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane, to the south of the Brisbane River. It is named for the suburb of Lytton and also includes the suburbs of Hemmant, Lota, Manly...

 
1996–present
Mark McArdle
Mark McArdle
Mark Francis McArdle is an Australian politician and the Shadow Minister for Health. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2004, representing the electorate of Caloundra....

 
LNP Caloundra
Electoral district of Caloundra
The district of Caloundra is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district on the Sunshine Coast in the Australian state of Queensland. The electorate is centred on the city of Caloundra and stretches north to Wurtulla, south to Pelican Waters and west to the Bruce Highway.The seat is...

 
2004–present
Aidan McLindon
Aidan McLindon
Aidan Patrick McLindon is an Australian politician. He was first elected for the seat of Beaudesert to the Queensland State Parliament for the Liberal National Party of Queensland at the 2009 Queensland Election...

 
LNP/Independent/Queensland Party
The Queensland Party
The Queensland Party is a political party based in Queensland, Australia. It is not affiliated with the North Queensland Party. The Queensland Party had one member in the Queensland Legislative Assembly and claims to be "neither left nor right with a focus on providing a balanced, moderate voice"...

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Katter's Australian Party
Katter's Australian Party
Katter's Australian Party is a registered political party in Australia. It was formed by the independent Federal Member of Parliament Bob Katter with a registration application lodged to the Australian Electoral Commission on 3 June 2011...

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Beaudesert
Electoral district of Beaudesert
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2009–present
Carolyn Male
Carolyn Male
Carolyn Therese Male is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2001.Male was first elected to parliament as the Labor member for Glass House at the 2001 state election...

 
Labor Pine Rivers
Electoral district of Pine Rivers
The district of Pine Rivers is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.It was first created for the 1972 state election, based in the Shire of Pine Rivers in the northern outskirts of Brisbane...

 
2001–present
Ted Malone
Ted Malone (Australian politician)
George Edward "Ted" Malone is an Australian politician. Born in Mackay, he was a cane farmer and grazier before entering politics, and had served as Chairman of Directors of the Australian Cane Farmers Association...

 
LNP Mirani
Electoral district of Mirani
The district of Mirani is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.It covers much of the Queensland coast between the cities of Rockhampton and Mackay, as well as the hinterland west of Mackay. Towns include St Lawrence, Carmila, Sarina, and Eungella...

 
1994–present
Rosemary Menkens
Rosemary Menkens
Rosemary Norma Menkens is an Australian politician. She represents the electoral district of Burdekin in the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Originally elected in 2004 for the National Party, she joined the Liberal National Party in 2008. She is currently performing the role of Shadow...

 
LNP Burdekin
Electoral district of Burdekin
Burdekin is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia. Centred on the Ayr–Home Hill region, the electorate also includes some of Townsville's southern suburbs as well as the coal-mining town of Collinsville...

 
2004–present
Rob Messenger  LNP/Independent1 Burnett
Electoral district of Burnett
The district of Burnett is an electoral division of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in central Queensland, Australia.It covers most of the coastal region south of Gladstone, as well as coastal and inland regions around Bundaberg. Towns within its boundaries include Miriam Vale, Agnes Water,...

 
2004–present
Hon John Mickel
John Mickel (politician)
Reginald John Mickel is an Australian politician who is currently Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and MP for the electoral district of Logan, but he will retire from those roles at the next election.-Early life:...

 
Labor Logan
Electoral district of Logan
The district of Logan is an electoral division in southern Queensland, Australia.Logan encompasses urban and semi-rural environments on the southern outskirts of the Brisbane metropolitan area...

 
1998–present
Jo-Ann Miller
Jo-Ann Miller
Jo-Ann Roslyn Miller is an Australian politician. She was parliamentary secretary from 2001 to 2006 but then stood down to the back bench...

 
Labor Bundamba
Electoral district of Bundamba
The Electorate of Bundamba is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.The electorate encompasses suburbs in the east and south-east of the City of Ipswich local government area...

 
2000–present
Evan Moorhead
Evan Moorhead
Evan Robert Moorhead is an Australian politician.Born in Redcliffe, he received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Queensland before becoming a research officer for the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union...

 
Labor Waterford
Electoral district of Waterford
The district of Waterford is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane. It is named for the suburb of Waterford and also includes the suburbs of Beenleigh, Bethania, Edens Landing, Kingston,...

 
2006–present
Hon Tim Mulherin
Tim Mulherin
Timothy Sean "Tim" Mulherin is an Australian politician. Born in Mackay, he was a clerk on the Mackay Electricity Board before becoming involved in politics. From 1994 to 1995 he was a state organiser of the Australian Labor Party. In 1995, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as...

 
Labor Mackay
Electoral district of Mackay
The district of Mackay is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in North Queensland, Australia, encompassing the inner suburbs of the city of Mackay...

 
1995–present
Hon Lindy Nelson-Carr
Lindy Nelson-Carr
Lindel Helena "Lindy" Nelson-Carr , an Australian Politician, has been the Queensland Government Minister for Communities, Disability Services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Partnerships, Multicultural Affairs, Seniors and Youth since September 2007 and has been the State Member for...

 
Labor Mundingburra
Electoral district of Mundingburra
The district of Mundingburra is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.- Overview :The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland. Significant utilities within the Mundingburra electorate are the Townsville Hospital,...

 
1998–present
Tim Nicholls
Tim Nicholls
Timothy James Nicholls is an Australian politician. He is the member for Clayfield in the Queensland Legislative Assembly and holds the position of Shadow Treasurer...

 
LNP Clayfield
Electoral district of Clayfield
The district of Clayfield is an electoral division of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. It is centred around the inner northern suburb of Clayfield in the state capital of Brisbane....

 
2006–present
Hon Rachel Nolan
Rachel Nolan
Rachel Genevieve Nolan is an Australian politician. She was elected as the state member for Ipswich on 17 February 2001. At the time she was Queensland's youngest ever female MP....

 
Labor Ipswich
Electoral district of Ipswich
The district of Ipswich is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district on the Brisbane River, west of Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland...

 
2001–present
Jason O'Brien
Jason O'Brien
Jason Danial O'Brien is an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1986–1990 as an electrician and was a Cairns City Councillor from 2000–2004. A member of the Australian Labor Party, he was electorate officer to Steve Bredhauer, member for...

 
Labor Cook
Electoral district of Cook
The electoral division of Cook is an electoral district in Queensland, Australia.Cook covers the vast Cape York Peninsula north of Cairns, including the resort town of Port Douglas and the Torres Strait Islands...

 
2004–present
Mary-Anne O'Neill
Mary-Anne O'Neill
Mary-Anne O'Neill is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since March 2009....

 
Labor Kallangur
Electoral district of Kallangur
The district of Kallangur is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the outer northern suburbs of Brisbane. It is named for the suburb of Kallangur and also includes the suburbs of Dakabin, Kurwongbah, Murrumba Downs, Petrie...

 
2009–present
Hon Annastacia Palaszczuk
Annastacia Palaszczuk
Annastacia Palaszczuk, born 25 July 1969, is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since September 2006, representing the electorate of Inala....

 
Labor Inala
Electoral district of Inala
The district of Inala is an electoral division in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia. This electorate was created at the 1999 redistribution from the former electorate of Archerfield....

 
2006–present
Curtis Pitt
Curtis Pitt
Curtis Warren Pitt is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2009, representing the district of Mulgrave.-Early life:...

 
Labor Mulgrave
Electoral district of Mulgrave (Queensland)
The district of Mulgrave is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district in its present form is a narrow coastal strip running from the southern suburbs of Cairns at its northern end to Innisfail at its southern end. Mulgrave also includes the...

 
2009–present
Andrew Powell
Andrew Powell (politician)
Andrew Cary Powell is an Australian politician. He was first elected for the seat of Glass House to the Queensland State Parliament for the Liberal National Party of Queensland at the 2009 Queensland Election....

 
LNP Glass House
Electoral district of Glass House
The district of Glass House is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The electorate is based mostly on the hinterland areas of the Sunshine Coast and north of Caboolture, it stretches north to Witta, south to the northern outskirts of Caboolture and...

 
2009–present
Dorothy Pratt
Dorothy Pratt
Dorothy Ruth "Dolly" Pratt is an Australian politician. Born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, she was a Justice of the Peace and coffee shop proprietor in Queensland before entering politics. She also worked at cattle sale yards. In 1998, she was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as...

 
Independent Nanango
Electoral district of Nanango
The district of Nanango is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.Nanango was the original seat of Sir Joh-Bjelke Petersen . In the 2006 legislative election, incumbent member Dorothy Pratt beat off a strong challenge by the late Bjelke-Petersen's son John to retain the seat...

 
1998–present
Hon Phil Reeves
Phil Reeves (politician)
Philip Gerard "Phil" Reeves is an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Leisure Management from Griffith University and was a sports management and marketing consultant. He joined the Australian Labor Party in 1987 and was Vice-President of the Garden City Branch...

 
Labor Mansfield
Electoral district of Mansfield
The district of Mansfield is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane. It is named for the suburb of Mansfield and also includes the suburbs of Burbank, Rochedale and Wishart...

 
1998–present
Ian Rickuss
Ian Rickuss
Ian Phillip Rickuss is an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane, he was a bank clerk and horticulturist before entering politics. He is married to Ann and has two sons, Luke and Joel. In 2004, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the National Party member for Lockyer,...

 
LNP Lockyer
Electoral district of Lockyer
The district of Lockyer is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district consists primarily of Gatton and Laidley Shires and northern parts of Beaudesert Shire. It includes the major town of Gatton and a number of smaller centres including...

 
2004–present
Hon Neil Roberts
Neil Roberts (politician)
Neil Stuart Roberts is an Australian politician. He was first elected to the seat of Nudgee in the Queensland State Parliament on 15 July 1995....

 
Labor Nudgee
Electoral district of Nudgee
The district of Nudgee is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Based in the north-eastern suburbs of Brisbane, the district is a safe seat for the Labor Party.-Members for Nudgee:-Election results:...

 
1995–present
Hon Stephen Robertson
Stephen Robertson (politician)
Stephen Robertson , Australian politician, is a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly representing the electoral district of Stretton for the Australian Labor Party. He was the Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy and Minister for Trade in the cabinet of Premier Anna Bligh...

 
Labor Stretton
Electoral district of Stretton
The district of Stretton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane. It is named for the suburb of Stretton and also includes the suburbs of Calamvale, Eight Mile Plains, Kuraby, Sunnybank...

 
1992–present
Mark Robinson
Mark Robinson (Australian politician)
Mark Andrew Robinson is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal National Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since March 2009....

 
LNP Cleveland
Electoral district of Cleveland
The district of Cleveland is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Based in the northern part of Redland City Council, the district includes the suburbs of Wellington Point, Ormiston, Cleveland and Thornlands...

 
2009–present
Mark Ryan
Mark Ryan (Australian politician)
Mark Thomas Ryan is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since March 2009.Ryan was born in Nambour, Queensland, and attended St Eugene School and then St Joseph's College, Nudgee...

 
Labor Morayfield
Electoral district of Morayfield
The district of Morayfield is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Located in the northern outskirts of Brisbane, south of the Sunshine Coast, the district is a safe seat for the Labor Party.-Geography:...

 
2009–present
Hon Robert Schwarten
Robert Schwarten
Robert Evan Schwarten is an Australian politician. He was born in Rockhampton, and is married with two sons. Before his entry into politics, he was a teacher, a union official, and a ministerial advisor to the Deputy Premier. From 1985 to 1991 he was an alderman on Rockhampton City Council...

 
Labor Rockhampton
Electoral district of Rockhampton
The district of Rockhampton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Wedged between the electoral districts of Keppel to the east and Mirani to the west, Rockhampton encompasses the bulk of the regional city of Rockhampton and many of its outlying...

 
1989–1992, 1995–present
Desley Scott
Desley Scott
Desley Carleton Scott is an Australian Labor Party politician and member for Woodridge in the Parliament of Queensland....

 
Labor Woodridge
Electoral district of Woodridge
The district of Woodridge is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane. It is named for the suburb of Woodridge and also takes in the suburbs of Crestmead, Kingston, Logan Central, Marsden and...

 
2001–present
Jeff Seeney
Jeff Seeney
Jeffrey William Seeney is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since the 1998 state election, representing the National Party and merged Liberal National Party ....

 
LNP Callide
Electoral district of Callide
The district of Callide is an electoral division in Queensland, Australia.It encompasses agricultural and mining towns in the Burnett, Callide and Dawson valleys...

 
1998–present
Hon Kerry Shine
Kerry Shine
Kerry Gerard Shine is the Australian Labor Party representative of the seat of Toowoomba North in the Queensland Legislative Assembly.He first ran for election in the 1998 state election...

 
Labor Toowoomba North
Electoral district of Toowoomba North
The district of Toowoomba North is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1972 redistribution...

 
2001–present
Fiona Simpson
Fiona Simpson
Fiona Stuart Simpson is an Australian politician. She is currently a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and was the Deputy Leader of the Queensland National Party from 2006 to 2008 and Deputy Leader of the Opposition...

 
LNP Maroochydore
Electoral district of Maroochydore
The electoral district of Maroochydore is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.It covers parts of the Sunshine Coast and takes in coastal areas between Coolum Beach and Mooloolaba, including Maroochydore....

 
1992–present
Christine Smith
Christine Smith (politician)
Christine Anne Smith, MP is an Australian politician. She represents the electoral district of Burleigh in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, and was first elected at the 2001 State election for the first Australian Labor Party....

 
Labor Burleigh
Electoral district of Burleigh
The division of Burleigh is an electoral division in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Queensland, Australia.The division of Burleigh is located on the southern Gold Coast, centred on Burleigh Heads. It also includes parts of the Gold Coast suburbs of Miami, Mermaid Beach, Varsity Lakes and Palm...

 
2001–present
Ted Sorensen
Ted Sorensen (politician)
Edward John Sorensen is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal National Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2009....

 
LNP Hervey Bay
Electoral district of Hervey Bay
-External links:*...

 
2009–present
Hon Judy Spence
Judy Spence
Judith Caroline "Judy" Spence is an Australian politician and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for the Australian Labor Party since the 1989 election. She represented Mount Gravatt until 2009, but after a redistribution she switched to Sunnybank, which covered much of the same territory...

 
Labor Sunnybank
Electoral district of Sunnybank
The district of Sunnybank is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the area of southern suburbs of Brisbane previously named as the suburb of Sunnybank before Sunnybank was broken up into smaller suburbs...

 
2001–present
Lawrence Springborg
Lawrence Springborg
Lawrence James Springborg is an Australian politician and became Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Queensland since 2 April 2009. He was deputy leader of the new Liberal National Party...

 
LNP Southern Downs
Electoral district of Southern Downs
The district of Southern Downs is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district takes in the southern parts of the Darling Downs region along the New South Wales border. It includes the major towns of Warwick, Stanthorpe and Goondiwindi and...

 
1989–present
Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens (politician)
Raymond Alexander Stevens, MP is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal/Liberal National Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2006.Born in Townsville, Stevens is married with two children...

 
LNP Mermaid Beach
Electoral district of Mermaid Beach
The district of Mermaid Beach is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The district is based in the southern part of the Gold Coast...

 
2006–present
Barbara Stone
Barbara Stone
Barbara Gwendoline Stone is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Springwood and a member of the Australian Labor Party.-Biography:...

 
Labor Springwood
Electoral district of Springwood
The district of Springwood is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane. It is named for suburb of Springwood and also includes the suburbs of Daisy Hill, Loganholme, Rochedale South and...

 
2001–present
Hon Karen Struthers
Karen Struthers
Karen Struthers is an Australian politician. She represents the electoral district of Algester in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, having held the seat since its inception at the 2001 state election. She first entered parliament after the 1998 election, winning the seat of Archerfield...

 
Labor Algester
Electoral district of Algester
The division of Algester is an electoral division in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia. This electorate was created at the 1999 redistribution from the former electorate of Archerfield, and was contested for the first time at the 2001 state election.It is...

 
1998–present
Jann Stuckey
Jann Stuckey
Janet Anne "Jann" Stuckey is an Australian politician representing the division of Currumbin in the Queensland Legislative Assembly. She was first elected on 7 February 2004 as a member of the Liberal Party...

 
LNP Currumbin
Electoral district of Currumbin
The district of Currumbin is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district lies in the south-east corner of the state, along the New South Wales border. The district takes in southern parts of the Gold Coast and much of its hinterland...

 
2004–present
Carryn Sullivan
Carryn Sullivan
Carryn Elizabeth Sullivan is an Australian politician. Born at Millmerran, she achieved a Bachelor of Education and a diploma in primary school teaching. She was a Caboolture Shire Councillor from 1991 until she retired in 1994, and was secretary of the Bribie Island branch of the Australian Labor...

 
Labor Pumicestone
Electoral district of Pumicestone
The district of Pumicestone is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district was first created for the 2001 state election. Located in the corridor between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, it includes the urbanised areas of Bribie Island, as...

 
2001–present
Lillian van Litsenburg
Lillian van Litsenburg
Elisabeth Cornelia Maria "Lillian" van Litsenburg is an Australian Labor Politician in the Queensland State Parliament representing the Electoral district of Redcliffe....

 
Labor Redcliffe
Electoral district of Redcliffe
The district of Redcliffe is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral division in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.The division encompasses suburbs to the north and northeast of Brisbane, including Redcliffe, Woody Point, Scarborough, Clontarf and Margate, as well as parts of Kippa-Ring...

 
2006–present
Hon Craig Wallace
Craig Wallace
Craig Andrew Wallace is an Australian politician. He is the member for Thuringowa in the Queensland State Parliament, to which he was elected to on 7 February 2004....

 
Labor Thuringowa
Electoral district of Thuringowa
The district of Thuringowa is an electorate in the Legislative Assembly of the state of Queensland, Australia.The division encompasses suburbs of the former City of Thuringowa on the western edge of Townsville in North Queensland, stretching from Deeragun in the north to Kelso in the south...

 
2004–present
Murray Watt
Murray Watt
Murray Patrick Watt is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since March 2009....

 
Labor Everton
Electoral district of Everton
The district of Everton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The division encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's north west between the Kedron Brook and the South Pine River, including Everton Park, Everton Hills, McDowall and Albany Creek...

 
2009–present
Peter Wellington
Peter Wellington
Peter Wellington is an Independent member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, for the Electoral district of Nicklin. Wellington, along with fellow independent Liz Cunningham, briefly held the balance in power following the 1998 state election...

 
Independent Nicklin
Electoral district of Nicklin
The district of Nicklin is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The electorate is centred in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, and stretches north to Yandina, south to Eudlo and west to Kenilworth...

 
1998–present
Hon Dean Wells  Labor Murrumba
Electoral district of Murrumba
The district of Murrumba is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the outer northern suburbs of Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Deception Bay, Kippa-Ring, Murrumba Downs and Rothwell...

 
1986–present
Wayne Wendt
Wayne Wendt
Wayne Earl Wendt represents the seat of Ipswich West in the Queensland State Parliament. He is a member of the Labor Government led by Anna Bligh.-References:...

 
Labor Ipswich West
Electoral district of Ipswich West
The district of Ipswich West is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district takes in western parts of suburban Ipswich, as well as rural areas further west. It was first created for the 1960 election....

 
2006–present
Steve Wettenhall
Steve Wettenhall
Stephen Peter Arthur "Steve" Wettenhall is the Australian Labor Party MP for the Queensland state electorate of Barron River...

 
Labor Barron River
Electoral district of Barron River
-External links:*...

 
2006–present
Hon Geoff Wilson
Geoff Wilson (Australian politician)
Geoffrey James "Geoff" Wilson is an Australian politician. Born in Culcairn in New South Wales, he was a barrister on the NSW Supreme Court, the Federal Court and the High Court. He was also a union official. In 1998, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for...

 
Labor Ferny Grove
Electoral district of Ferny Grove
The district of Ferny Grove is one of the 89 electoral districts for the Queensland Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was first created in 1992. It has been represented by Geoff Wilson since 1998.-Members for Ferny Grove:-Election results:...

 
1998–present

1 On 4 May 2010, Beaudesert
Electoral district of Beaudesert
-External links:*...

 MP Aidan McLindon
Aidan McLindon
Aidan Patrick McLindon is an Australian politician. He was first elected for the seat of Beaudesert to the Queensland State Parliament for the Liberal National Party of Queensland at the 2009 Queensland Election...

 and Burnett
Electoral district of Burnett
The district of Burnett is an electoral division of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in central Queensland, Australia.It covers most of the coastal region south of Gladstone, as well as coastal and inland regions around Bundaberg. Towns within its boundaries include Miriam Vale, Agnes Water,...

 MP Rob Messenger resigned from the LNP to sit as independents. McLindon formed The Queensland Party
The Queensland Party
The Queensland Party is a political party based in Queensland, Australia. It is not affiliated with the North Queensland Party. The Queensland Party had one member in the Queensland Legislative Assembly and claims to be "neither left nor right with a focus on providing a balanced, moderate voice"...

 in June; it was registered on 5 August. Messenger did not join the new party. The Queensland Party
The Queensland Party
The Queensland Party is a political party based in Queensland, Australia. It is not affiliated with the North Queensland Party. The Queensland Party had one member in the Queensland Legislative Assembly and claims to be "neither left nor right with a focus on providing a balanced, moderate voice"...

 later merged with Katter's Australian Party
Katter's Australian Party
Katter's Australian Party is a registered political party in Australia. It was formed by the independent Federal Member of Parliament Bob Katter with a registration application lodged to the Australian Electoral Commission on 3 June 2011...

 in 2011.
2 Dalrymple MP Shane Knuth
Shane Knuth
Shane Andrew Knuth is an Australian politician. He has represented the seats of Charters Towers and Dalrymple in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, for the National Party , the Liberal National Party and Katter's Australian Party .Knuth was born in the Queensland town of Tully...

 resigned from the Liberal National Party
Liberal National Party
The Liberal National Party is a political party in Queensland, Australia. It was formed on 26 July 2008 by the merger of the Queensland divisions of the Liberal and National parties.-History:...

 and joined Katter's Australian Party
Katter's Australian Party
Katter's Australian Party is a registered political party in Australia. It was formed by the independent Federal Member of Parliament Bob Katter with a registration application lodged to the Australian Electoral Commission on 3 June 2011...

 on 30 October 2011.

See also

  • Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
    Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
    The Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly is a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, elected by the whole Parliament to preside over sittings of the Assembly and to maintain orderly proceedings. The Speaker is supported in his role by officers of the Parliamentary Service,...

  • Premier: Anna Bligh
    Anna Bligh
    Anna Maria Bligh is an Australian politician and the Premier of Queensland since 2007. The 2009 Queensland state election was the first time a female-led political party won or retained state or federal government in Australia...

     (Australian Labor Party
    Australian Labor Party
    The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

    ) (2007–present)
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