Cynthia Lui | |
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Deputy Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly | |
In office 23 May –12 September 2023 | |
Speaker | Joe Kelly (acting) |
Preceded by | Joe Kelly |
Succeeded by | Joe Kelly |
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cook | |
In office 25 November 2017 –26 October 2024 | |
Preceded by | Billy Gordon |
Succeeded by | David Kempton |
Personal details | |
Born | Thursday Island,Queensland,Australia | 17 February 1977
Political party | Labor |
Website | www |
Cynthia Lillian Lui (born 17 February 1977) is an Australian former politician. She was the Australian Labor Party member for Cook in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2024. [1] Originally from Yam Island in the Torres Strait,Lui is the first Torres Strait Islander to be elected to any parliament. [2] [3] She worked as a community worker in Cairns to win internally as a representative for Cook,she then went on to secure her place within the Labor Party as the preferred candidate. [4] Lui gave her maiden speech in the Queensland Parliament on 15 February 2018. [5]