Leader of the House (Queensland)

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The Leader of the House, also known as the Manager of Government Business is responsible for managing and scheduling Government business in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The office is held by a member of the Ministry; until 2009, the office was always held by a Cabinet minister, but Judy Spence held the office as parliamentary secretary. Under changes made in October 2011, the office was given a salary greater than its holder would otherwise earn by virtue of his or her other ministerial office. [1] The Leader of the House is the Chair of the Committee of the Legislative Assembly, which has responsibility for the way the body is run. [2]

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List of Leaders

LeaderTerm beganTerm endedParty Premier
Max Hodges [3] 10 March 197513 August 1976National Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Tom Newbery [4] 13 August 19768 August 1979Country/National
Claude Wharton [5] August 19791 November 1986National
Lin Powell [6] 19 February 1987 [7] 1 December 1987National
Brian Austin 8 March 1988 [n 1] 25 September 1989National Mike Ahern
Neville Harper [9] 26 September 1989 [n 2] 2 December 1989 [n 3] National Russell Cooper
Terry Mackenroth [10] 7 December 198910 December 1991Labor Wayne Goss
Paul Braddy [11] 13 December 199125 August 1992Labor
Terry Mackenroth [10] 5 November 199219 February 1996Labor
Tony FitzGerald [12] 2 April 199619 May 1998National Rob Borbidge
Terry Mackenroth [10] 29 June 199822 March 2001Labor Peter Beattie
Anna Bligh [13] 22 March 20019 August 2005Labor
Robert Schwarten [14] 9 August 200522 April 2009Labor
Anna Bligh
Judy Spence [15] [n 4] 22 April 200923 March 2012Labor
Ray Stevens [16] 17 May 20126 January 2015Liberal National Campbell Newman
Stirling Hinchliffe [17] 24 March 201512 December 2017Labor Annastacia Palaszczuk
Yvette D'Ath 12 December 2017IncumbentLabor
Notes
  1. ↑ No biography of Austin is currently available from the Queensland Parliament, so his starting date is unclear. Austin was acting Leader of the House when the Legislative Assembly met on 2 December 1987, the day following Mike Ahern's toppling of Joh Bjeike-Petersen. [8] Parliament was then adjourned to 8 March 1988, and Ahern's full ministry was appointed on 9 December. When the Legislative Assembly returned on 8 March, Austin was announced as Leader of the House. Any day from 2 December (after the House met) up to and including 8 March could be the day he started. Because he was announced as Leader on 8 March 1988, that date is used here.
  2. ↑ Cooper installed his ministry on 25 September 1989, a Sunday, so it is unclear whether Harper was made Leader of the House that day or next, when Parliament next met and was informed of the appointment.
  3. ↑ The Coalition lost the 1989 state election on 2 December.
  4. ↑ Spence is the first Leader of the House to have held that post as a Parliamentary Secretary rather than as a Minister. She is also the first to have received an additional salary for being Leader of the House. [1]

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  2. ↑ Parliament of Queensland Act 2001, s 79A et seq.
  3. ↑ "Member biography: Hon. Allen Maxwell Hodges". Re-Member. Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Member biography: Hon. Thomas Guy Newbery". Re-Member. Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  5. ↑ "Member biography: Hon. Claude Alfred Wharton". Re-Member. Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  6. ↑ "Member biography: Hon. Lionel William Powell". Re-Member. Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  7. ↑ Queensland, Legislative Assembly, Weekly Hansard, 19 February 1987 at 44.
  8. ↑ Queensland, Legislative Assembly, Weekly Hansard, 2 December 1987 at 4784.
  9. ↑ "Member biography: Hon. Neville John Harper". Re-Member. Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  10. 1 2 3 "Member biography: Hon. Terrence Michael Mackenroth". Re-Member. Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  11. ↑ "Member biography: Hon. Paul Joseph Braddy". Re-Member. Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  12. ↑ "Member biography: Andrew Anthony Fitzgerald". Re-Member. Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  13. ↑ "Member biography: Anna Maria Bligh". Re-Member. Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  14. ↑ "Member biography: Hon. Robert Evan Schwarten". Re-Member. Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  15. ↑ "Member biography: Hon. Judith Caroline Spence". Re-Member. Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  16. ↑ "Member biography: Mr Raymond (Ray) Stevens". Parliament of Queensland. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  17. ↑ "Queensland's new Labor Cabinet sworn in at Government House". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation 16 February 2015. 15 February 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
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