Sir Charles Lilley was a Premier and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland. He had a significant influence on the form and spirit of state education in colonial Queensland which lasted well into the 20th century.
Robert Joseph Quinn is an Australian Liberal Party politician in the Queensland parliament. He was leader of the Queensland Liberal Party from 2001 until being ousted on 7 August 2006 by Bruce Flegg.
The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland established under the Constitution of Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembly has 93 members,who have used the letters MP after their names since 2000.
Bulimba is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
Donald James Cameron,Australian politician,was born in Cloncurry,Queensland,and was educated at Catholic schools. He moved to Brisbane where he worked as a chef and catering manager. Active in the Australian Labor Party from an early age,he unexpectedly won the middle-class seat of Lilley at the 1961 election,but was defeated in 1963.
Elizabeth Jane Grace is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1996 to 1998,representing the Brisbane-based electorate of Lilley.
Kevin James Ryan,born 26 August 1934 in Ipswich,Queensland is an Australian,former state parliamentarian and local mayor,barrister and advocate. In the 1950s and 1960s he was an Australian dual-code rugby international representative and had previously been a Queensland amateur boxing champion in 1958 and 1959,who trialled for the 1960 Olympics.
Vicky Elizabeth Darling is a Labor politician elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in September 2006 as the member for Sandgate.
Kevin Michael Kiernan Cairns was an Australian dentist and politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as Minister for Housing in the McMahon government from 1971 to 1972. He served in the House of Representatives for 15 years,representing the Queensland seat of Lilley from 1963 to 1972 and 1974 to 1980.
William James Frederick Riordan CBE was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served in the House of Representatives from 1936 to 1966,representing the Division of Kennedy in Queensland. He was Minister for the Navy in the Chifley government from 1946 to 1949.
James William Hadley was an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane,he received a primary education before becoming a timber worker,after which he worked with the railways. He was also an organiser with the Australian Workers' Union. In 1943,he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Lilley,defeating the sitting United Australia Party member,William Jolly. He held the seat until his defeat by the Liberal candidate in 1949. In 1956,he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the member for Nundah,but he was defeated the following year,having defected to the Queensland Labor Party. Hadley died in 1971 and was buried in Nudgee Cemetery.
Elaine Elizabeth Darling was an Australian politician. The Labor member for Lilley from 1980 to 1993,she was the first woman from Queensland to be elected to the House of Representatives.
Scott Anthony Emerson is a former Australian politician and talkback radio host. He is a director of national consulting firm GXO Strategies and a political contributor to Nine Entertainment’s national radio network as well as appearing on its breakfast television program Today. He hosted the Scott Emerson Drive Show on Brisbane talkback radio station 4BC from 2020 to 2022. He served as the Minister for Transport and Main Roads Minister in the Newman Ministry from 2012 to 2015. In the Legislative Assembly of Queensland he represented the seat of Indooroopilly in Brisbane's inner-west,from 2009 to 2017. Indooroopilly was abolished at the 2017 state election and Emerson chose to contest the new seat of Maiwar which had a notional LNP margin of 3%;Emerson was unsuccessful in his bid,losing to the Greens candidate Michael Berkman.
Walter Russell (Jack) Crampton was an Australian trade unionist,journalist and politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council,until he voted to abolish the Council.
Frank Edwards Roberts was an Australian politician. He was Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1952 to 1955,and was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1947 to 1956,representing the electorate of Nundah. As with his predecessor as Mayor,John Beals Chandler,he was simultaneously Lord Mayor and a state MP. He represented Labor from 1947 to 1953 before resigning from the party;he was defeated for re-election as an independent for Lord Mayor in 1955 and as an MP in 1956.
John William Houston was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Bulimba in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1957 to 1980. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the Queensland Parliament from 11 October 1966 to 22 July 1974.
Thomas William Rasey was an Australian politician from Queensland. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
John Joseph O'Connor Healy was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in Australia.
John Burton Donnelly was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
The 1977 Queensland state election was held on 12 November 1977.
