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.
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.
An election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 7 February 2004 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
An election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 9 September 2006 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly,after being announced by Premier Peter Beattie on 15 August 2006.
Mark Francis McArdle is an Australian politician and former Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Queensland. He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland between 2004 and 2020,representing the electorate of Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast. Initially a Liberal Party member,in 2007 he became the party leader and the following year oversaw a merger with the National Party that produced the Liberal National Party.
Andrew Peter Fraser is Chancellor of Griffith University,and was formerly an Australian Labor politician. He was first elected into the Legislative Assembly of Queensland on 7 February 2004. He was the Deputy Premier of Queensland,Treasurer and Minister for State Development and Trade of the Queensland Government. On 24 March 2012,Andrew Fraser lost his seat to the LNP candidate Saxon Rice.
Ignazia Graziella "Grace" Grace is an Australian politician from the state of Queensland. She has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the seat of McConnel and its predecessor seat,Brisbane Central,for all but two years since 2007. She is a member of the Labor Party.
Kate Jennifer Jones is an Australian former politician from Queensland. She served as a Labor Party Member of Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2006 to 2012,and again from 2015 to 2020. Jones first represented the seat of Ashgrove until she was defeated by eventual Premier Campbell Newman at the 2012 state election. Jones retook the seat for the Labor Party at the 2015 state election. The seat was abolished prior to the 2017 state election,so Jones contested and won the new seat of Cooper at that election. In the Palaszczuk Government,she was the Minister for Innovation and Tourism Industry Development,Minister for State Development and the Minister for the Commonwealth Games.
Desley Carole Boyle is a former Labor politician. Boyle represented the electoral district of Cairns,Queensland in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland and was elected in the 1998 State election and served until 2012
Stephen Robertson is an Australian politician,he is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland who represented the electoral district of Stretton for the Labor Party. He was the Minister for Natural Resources,Mines and Energy and Minister for Trade in the cabinet of Premier Anna Bligh. He had previously held the positions of Minister for Health (2005–2009) and Minister for Emergency Services (1999–2001).
The 2009 Queensland state election was held on 21 March 2009 to elect all 89 members of the Legislative Assembly,a unicameral parliament.
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 was the Premier of Queensland from 2015 until her resignation in December 2023.
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.
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 Gair Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Labor Premier Vince Gair. It succeeded the Hanlon Ministry on 17 January 1952 following Ned Hanlon's death two days earlier. On 26 April 1957,Gair and most of the Ministry were expelled from the Labor Party and formed the Queensland Labor Party (QLP),retaining the ministry but losing the confidence of the Assembly. The ministry was followed by the Nicklin Ministry on 12 August 1957 following the defeat of both Labor and the QLP at the resulting election.
The Ryan Ministry was the 27th ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Premier T. J. Ryan of the Labor Party. It was the first majority Labor government in Queensland's history. It succeeded the Denham Ministry on 1 June 1915,following the latter's defeat at the 1915 state election on 22 May. The Theodore Ministry succeeded it on 22 October 1919 following T. J. Ryan's resignation from the Queensland Parliament to run for federal politics.
James Larcombe (1884–1957) was a Labor politician from Queensland,Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 17 May 1969 to elect the 78 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
Anna Bligh was sworn in as Premier of Queensland on 13 September 2007 with her first ministry,replacing Peter Beattie,who had retired from politics,and his ministry. She subsequently won the 2009 state election with a reduced majority against the newly merged Liberal National Party of Queensland. Shortly thereafter,on 26 March 2009,Bligh reshuffled the ministry. She conducted a second reshuffle on 21 February 2011. Following her party's loss at the 2012 state election,she soon resigned as Premier to make way for the Newman Ministry.
