Michael Hugh Lavarch AO is an Australian lawyer,educator and former politician. He was the Attorney-General for Australia between 1993 and 1996,and from 2004 to 2012 was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology (QUT),his alma mater,where he has been since then emeritus professor. As of August 2020 he is co-chair,with Jackie Huggins,of the Eminent Panel for the Indigenous treaty process in Queensland.
John Mark Dempsey is an Australian politician currently serving as Mayor of the Bundaberg Regional Council. He previously served as the Queensland Minister for Police and Community Safety in the Newman Government and was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2015.
Yvette Maree D'Ath is an Australian politician. She is a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland representing the seat of Redcliffe. D'Ath has served as the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence 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 to 2013.
Mark Lionel Furner is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of Australian Senate from 2008 to 2014,representing the state of Queensland. Since the 2015 Queensland state election,he has represented Ferny Grove in the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Curtis Warren Pitt is an Australian politician who has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland since 2009,representing the district of Mulgrave. On 14 February 2015,he was sworn in as Treasurer of Queensland.
Dianne Elizabeth Farmer is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Employment and Small Business and Minister for Training and Skills of Queensland. She was first elected for the seat of Bulimba to the Queensland State Parliament for the Labor Party at the 2009 Queensland election but lost her seat at the 2012 election to Aaron Dillaway of the Liberal National Party. Farmer defeated Dillaway at the 2015 election to regain Bulimba for Labor and was re-elected in 2017 and 2020.
Cameron Robert Dick is an Australian politician and member of the Labor Party currently serving as the 36th Deputy Premier and 51st Treasurer of the state of Queensland and Minister for Trade and Investment. He previously served as Minister for State Development,Manufacturing,Infrastructure and Planning and was Minister for Health and Minister for Ambulance Services in the Palaszczuk Ministry. He also served as Attorney-General,Minister for Education and Minister for Industrial Relations in the Bligh government. He is currently a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly representing the seat of Woodridge.
Jacqueline Gail "Jackie" Huggins is an Aboriginal Australian author,historian,academic and advocate for the rights of Indigenous Australians. She is a Bidjara/Pitjara,Birri Gubba and Juru woman from Queensland.
There have been 97 women in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland since its establishment in 1860. Women have had the right to vote in the Assembly since 1905 and the right to stand as candidates since 1915.
Campbell Newman led the Liberal National Party of Queensland to its first victory at the 2012 state election. His interim Ministry of three members was sworn in on 26 March 2012,pending his determination of the make-up of his full Ministry. His replaced the Ministry of Anna Bligh. Following his party's loss at the 2015 state election,Newman soon resigned as Premier to make way for the ministry of Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Jacklyn Anne Trad is a former Australian politician. She was Deputy Premier of Queensland from 2015 to 2020,Treasurer of Queensland from 2017 to 2020 and represented the Electoral district of South Brisbane for the Labor Party from April 2012 to October 2020.
The 2017 Queensland state election was held on 25 November 2017 to elect all 93 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland,the unicameral Parliament of Queensland.
Leeanne Margaret Enoch is an Australian politician currently serving as the Queensland Minister for Communities and Housing,for the Arts,and for Digital Economy. 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 who is the 40th and current premier of Queensland,in office since 2023. He is the state leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and previously served as deputy premier from 2020 to 2023.
Nikki Anne Boyd is an Australian politician. She has been the Australian Labor Party member for Pine Rivers in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015.
Michael Christopher de Brenni is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Energy,Renewables and Hydrogen and Minister for Public Works and Procurement of Queensland. He previously served as the Minister for Housing and Public Works,Minister for Sport and Minister for Digital Technology. He has been the Labor member for Springwood in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015.
Shannon Maree Fentiman is an Australian politician. She has been the Labor member for Waterford in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015 and has served as the Minister for Health and Ambulance Services since 2023.
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.
Cynthia Lillian Lui is an Australian politician. She has been the Australian Labor Party member for Cook in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2017. Originally from Yam Island in the Torres Strait,Lui is the first Torres Strait Islander to be elected to any parliament. She worked as a community worker in Cairns to win internally as a representative for Cook,she then went on to secure her place within the Labor Party as the preferred candidate. Lui gave her maiden speech in the Queensland Parliament on 15 February 2018.
Ivy Trevallion is a Torres Strait Islander social worker and community leader.
