Yvette D'Ath

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The Honourable
Yvette D'Ath
MP
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D'Ath in 2014
Attorney-General and Minister for Justice
In office
18 May 2023 –28 October 2024
Profession
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Website yvettedathmp.com

Yvette Maree D'Ath (born 26 July 1970) is an Australian politician. She served as the Labor member for Redcliffe in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2014 until her retirement in 2024. D'Ath served as Attorney-General and Minister for the Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence from 2023 to 2024. Prior to this she held an extensive list of various ministerial and other governmental positions, including Minister for Justice and Leader of the House. She was previously a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the outer Brisbane seat of Petrie from 2007 until her defeat at the 2013 Australian federal election.

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Education and early career

D'Ath graduated from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Laws, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Australian National University. After working as a waitress, she was appointed an associate to the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission, serving between 1992 and 1994. She then became a senior industrial advocate for the Australian Workers' Union in Queensland. [1]

Federal politics

D'Ath won the seat of Petrie for Labor from Liberal Teresa Gambaro at the 2007 election with a 2-point margin from a 9.5-point swing, before increasing it to 2.5 points at the 2010 election. D'Ath was narrowly defeated by 0.5 points at the 2013 election.

Following the promotion of Mark Dreyfus as Attorney-General in February 2013, D'Ath was promoted to replace some of Dreyfus' responsibilities as Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. Her responsibilities were altered and she became Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change, Industry, and Innovation in a rearrangement of the Second Gillard Ministry on 25 March 2013. [1] [2]

State politics

In December 2013, D'Ath was preselected to contest the state seat of Redcliffe at the 2014 by-election. [3] The seat of Redcliffe covered much of the same area as her former federal seat of Petrie. She won the seat with a 17.2-point two-party swing to Labor. [4] [5] This increased Labor's representation in the Queensland Parliament from seven to eight seats. After the by-election victory D'Ath was made the Shadow Minister for Education and Training, Disability Services, Science, IT and Innovation. [6]

On 27 August 2014, D'Ath was made the Shadow Attorney-General, the Shadow Minister for Justice and the Shadow Minister for Training, Disability Services and Housing after a reshuffle prompted by the Labor victory in the Stafford by-election. [7] [ better source needed ]

Palaszczuk government

After Labor's victory in the 2015 Queensland State Election, D'Ath was sworn in as Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Minister for Training and Skills in the Palaszczuk Ministry on 16 February 2015. [8]

Following the 2017 Queensland State Election, in which the Palaszczuk government was returned with a majority, D'Ath retained her position as Attorney-General and Minister for Justice.

D'Ath retained her seat of Redcliffe in the 2020 Queensland state election, becoming the Minister for Health and Ambulance Services. [9] She was succeeded as Attorney-General and Minister for Justice by Shannon Fentiman.

After a Cabinet reshuffle in May 2023, [10] D'Ath reassumed her position as Attorney-General and Minister for Justice. Additionally, she became Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence (previously held by Fentiman) for the first time in her career. [11] [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 "The Hon Yvette D'Ath MP". Senators and Members of the Parliament of Australia . Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "Changes to the Ministry". Press office (Press release). Prime Minister of Australia. 25 March 2013. Archived from the original on 28 March 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Yvette D'Ath wins Labor preselection for state seat of Redcliffe". Brisbane Times. 2 December 2013. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Green, Antony (14 February 2024). "2014 Redcliffe by-election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Redcliffe by-election: Labor candidate Yvette D'Ath wins the Queensland seat – ABC 22 February 2014". Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Yvette D'Ath [@YvetteDAth] (3 March 2014). "Great to be with Annastacia Palaszczuk when she announced my shadow portfolio of Education and Training. #qldpol" (Tweet) – via Twitter./photo/1
  7. ↑ "Member List - Queensland Parliament".
  8. ↑ "Queensland's new Labor Cabinet sworn in at Government House". Australian Broadcasting Corporation 16 February 2015. 15 February 2015. Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  9. ↑ The Queensland Cabinet and Ministerial Directory Archived 16 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine Queensland Government.
  10. ↑ Palaszczuk, Annastacia. "Refreshed Cabinet to deliver for Queenslanders". Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 2 May 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  11. ↑ "Hon Yvette D'Ath". Queensland Parliament. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  12. ↑ Jeffrey, Daniel. "Queensland gets new health, housing, youth justice ministers in massive cabinet reshuffle". 9 News. Archived from the original on 2 May 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
Parliament of Australia
Preceded by Member for Petrie
2007–2013		Succeeded by
Parliament of Queensland
Preceded by Member for Redcliffe
2014–2024		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Attorney-General of Queensland
2015–2020		Succeeded by
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Preceded by Minister for Health and Ambulance Services
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