Peter Douglas Beattie is an Australian former politician who served as the 36th Premier of Queensland,in office from 1998 to 2007. He was the state leader of the Labor Party from 1996 to 2007.
Wayne Keith Goss was Premier of Queensland from 7 December 1989 until 19 February 1996,becoming the first Labor Premier of the state in over thirty two years. Prior to entering politics,Goss was a solicitor,and after leaving politics he served as Chairman of the Queensland Art Gallery and Chairman of Deloitte Australia.
Robert Edward Borbidge is a former Australian politician who served as the 35th Premier of Queensland from 1996 to 1998. He was the leader of the Queensland branch of the National Party,and was the last member of that party to serve as premier. His term as premier was contemporaneous with the rise of the One Nation Party of Pauline Hanson,which would see him lose office within two years.
Lawrence James Springborg is an Australian politician. He led the National Party in the Queensland Parliament from 2003 to 2006 and again in 2008,before becoming the first leader of the merged Liberal National Party from 2008 to 2009. He led the LNP again from 2015 to 2016 before announcing his retirement. He currently serves as Mayor of Goondiwindi Regional Council,having been elected in March 2020.
Theo Russell Cooper is a former Australian National Party politician. He was Premier of Queensland for a period of 73 days,from 25 September 1989 to 7 December 1989. His loss at the state election of 1989 ended 32 years of continuous National Party rule over Queensland.
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.
Elizabeth Anne Cunningham is an Australian politician. She was an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1995 to 2015,representing the electorate of Gladstone. A conservative MLA in a traditionally Labor district,Cunningham is perhaps most well known for having brought Rob Borbidge's Coalition minority government to power in 1996,following the loss of the Mundingburra by-election by the then Goss Labor government.
Anna Maria Bligh is a lobbyist and former Australian politician who served as the 37th Premier of Queensland,in office from 2007 to 2012 as leader of the Labor Party. She was the first woman to hold either position. In 2017,she was appointed CEO of the Australian Banking Association.
The 1989 Queensland state election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 2 December 1989 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. This was the first election following the downfall of seven-term premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen at the end of 1987.
This is a list of members of the 49th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2001,as elected at the 1998 state election held on 13 June 1998.
Terence Michael Mackenroth was an Australian politician from Queensland,who was a member of the Labor Party. He served almost 28 years with a notable parliamentary service history and a number of ministerial roles including Treasurer and Deputy Premier.
David John Hamill is a former Labor Queensland politician,who served in a number of positions including Minister for Transport and Minister Assisting the Premier on Economic and Trade Development,Minister for Education and treasurer. He was elected to the Queensland Parliament as member for Ipswich in 1983 and held the seat until 2001. He was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001 and in 2009 he made a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia award.
Edmund Denis Casey,known as Ed,was best known as the leader of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland between 1978 and 1982. He also served as Primary Industries Minister in the government of Wayne Goss between 1989 and 1995. Casey was the member for Mackay in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland between 1969 and 1995.
Frederick Warren Pitt is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1989 to 1995 and 1998 to 2009.
Heinrich Palaszczuk is a former Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland,and minister of the Beattie Government of Queensland. He was elected as the member for Archerfield in 1984,and held that seat until his election as the member for Inala in 1992. Palaszczuk retired from politics in 2006,and was succeeded in his seat of Inala by his daughter Annastacia Palaszczuk,who has been the Premier of Queensland since 2015.
The Beattie Ministry was a Ministry of the Government of Queensland,led by Labor Premier Peter Beattie. It commenced on 26 June 1998,thirteen days after the Borbidge Ministry,led by Premier Rob Borbidge of the National Party,was defeated at the 1998 election. It was followed by the Bligh Ministry upon Beattie's retirement as Premier on 13 September 2007.
The Borbidge Ministry was a Ministry of the Government of Queensland,led by National Party Premier Rob Borbidge and his deputy,Liberal leader Joan Sheldon. It commenced on 19 February 1996 after the Goss Ministry,led by Premier Wayne Goss of the Labor Party,resigned following the loss of the Mundingburra by-election two weeks earlier. The Coalition party leaders were sworn in by the Governor of Queensland as a two-member cabinet. A week later,on 26 February 1996,they resigned so that a full ministry could be sworn in. The Borbidge Ministry was followed by the Beattie Ministry on 26 June 1998 upon the Government's defeat at the 1998 election.
A by-election was held for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland district of Chatsworth on 20 August 2005. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting Labor member and Deputy Premier Terry Mackenroth.
Neville George Warburton was an Australian politician from Queensland,who served as leader of the opposition from 1984 to 1988,and as a minister in the Goss Ministry from 1989 to 1992.
Grant Steven Musgrove is an Australian public figure. Roles have included Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR),the peak industry body for the resource recovery industry,a senior university advisor and member of parliament. He is a regular media commentator and keynote speaker on resource recovery and the recycling industry internationally. He was the member for Springwood in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2001,representing the Labor Party.
