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.
Brendan Patrick O'Connor is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since 2001. He held ministerial office in the governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 to 2013,including as a member of cabinet from 2012. He has been a member of the shadow cabinet since the ALP's defeat at the 2013 federal election.
Annastacia Palaszczuk is an Australian politician who has been the 39th premier of Queensland since 2015 and the leader of the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2012. She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the district of Inala at the 2006 election.
Townsville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland,and covers the Eastern and Northern suburbs of the City of Townsville as well as Magnetic Island and Palm Island.
Mundingburra is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It is currently held by Labor Party MP Les Walker.
Thuringowa is an electorate in the Legislative Assembly of the state of Queensland,Australia.
Anthony John Mooney AM is a former Australian politician who served as a City Councillor of the City of Townsville,Queensland from 1977 to 2008,and the Mayor from 1989 to 2008.
The City of Townsville is an Australian local government area (LGA) located in North Queensland,Australia. It encompasses the city of Townsville,together with the surrounding rural areas,to the south are the communities of Alligator Creek,Woodstock and Reid River,and to the north are Northern Beaches and Paluma,and also included is Magnetic Island. In June 2018 the area had a population of 194,072,and is the 28th-largest LGA in Australia. Townsville is considered to be the unofficial capital of North Queensland.
Jo-Ann Roslyn Miller is an Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland between February 2000 and February 2020,representing the electorate of Bundamba.
Lindel Helena Nelson-Carr is a former Australian politician who was the member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Mundingburra from 1998 until she stood down at the 2012 state election.
The Mundingburra state by-election,1996 was a by-election held on 3 February 1996 for the Queensland Legislative Assembly seat of Mundingburra,located in the southern suburbs of Townsville. It was brought on by the Court of Disputed Returns declaring void the close result of the July 1995 election in the normally safe Labor seat,and resulted in the end of the Goss Ministry headed by Labor Premier Wayne Goss,and the swearing in of a minority government led by Nationals leader Rob Borbidge.
The Goss Ministry was a Ministry of the Government of Queensland,led by Labor Premier Wayne Goss. It commenced on 7 December 1989,five days after the Cooper Ministry,led by Premier Russell Cooper of the National Party,was defeated at the 1989 election. The Goss Ministry was followed by the Borbidge Ministry on 19 February 1996 following the loss by Labor of the Mundingburra by-election two weeks earlier,which deprived the Government of its majority.
David Frank Crisafulli is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2017,representing the Gold Coast-based electorate of Broadwater for the Liberal National Party. He was previously member for the North Queensland-based electorate of Mundingburra from 2012 to 2015,and was initially Minister for Local Government,and then Minister for Local Government,Community Recovery and Resilience during the premiership of Campbell Newman,from 2012 to 2015. Since November 2020,he has been leader of the Liberal National Party and Leader of the Opposition.
Leeanne Margaret Enoch is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Communities and Housing and Minister for the Arts and Digital Economy of Queensland. She has also served as the Labor Party member for Algester in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015.
Steven John Miles is an Australian politician. He has been the Deputy Premier of Queensland since May 2020,and been the Labor member for Murrumba in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2017,and previously represented Mount Coot-tha from 2015 to 2017.
Shannon Maree Fentiman is an Australian politician. She has been the Labor member for Waterford in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015 and is the current Queensland Attorney-General and Minister for Justice,Women,and the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence.
Mark Craig Bailey is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Transport and Main Roads of Queensland. He has also served as the Labor member for Miller in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015.
The 2020 Queensland state election was held on 31 October to elect all 93 members to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The Labor Party was returned to government for a third-term,led by incumbent premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. With 47 seats needed to form a majority government,Labor won 52 seats,including all but five in Brisbane,while the Liberal National Party won 34 seats and formed opposition. On the crossbench,Katter's Australian Party retained its 3 seats,the Queensland Greens picked up South Brisbane for a total of 2,Pauline Hanson's One Nation retained Mirani and independent Sandy Bolton retained her seat of Noosa.
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 2020 Queensland state election. The election was held on 31 October 2020.
Leslie Alexander Walker is an Australian politician currently serving as member for Mundingburra in the Queensland Legislative Assembly,a position he has held since 2020. He served as a Townsville City councillor from 2004,and was Deputy Mayor of Townsville from 2016 to 2020.
