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.
Malcolm Thomas Brough is a former Australian politician. He represented the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives and held ministerial office in the Howard and Turnbull governments.
Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman is a former Australian politician who served as the 38th Premier of Queensland from 26 March 2012 to 14 February 2015. He served as the member for Ashgrove in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland between 24 March 2012 and 31 January 2015. He was LNP Leader from 2 April 2011 to 7 February 2015;Newman previously served as the 15th Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 27 March 2004 to 3 April 2011.
Peter Neil Slipper is an Australian former politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1987 and from 1993 to 2013,representing the Division of Fisher in Queensland. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2011 to 2012. He is the current bishop in Australia for the Catholic Apostolic Church of Australia (ICAB) a mission of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church and an honorary consul for Brazil in Australia.
Michael Joseph Keelty AO is a retired Australian Police Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police from 2001 to 2009. He was also the inaugural chairperson of the Australian Crime Commission,now known as the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.
Theo Russell Cooper is a former Australian National Party politician. He was Premier of Queensland for a period of 73 days,from 25 September 1989 to 7 December 1989. His loss at the state election of 1989 ended 32 years of continuous National Party rule over Queensland.
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.
Annastacia Palaszczuk is an Australian politician and solicitor serving as the 39th and current premier of Queensland since February 2015. She has been leader of the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since March 2012 and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (MLA) for the division of Inala since September 2006. She is the first woman to win the premiership from opposition and preside over a majority female cabinet in Australian history.
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.
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.
The Somerset Region is a local government area located in the West Moreton region of South East Queensland,Australia,about 100 kilometres (62 mi) northwest of Brisbane and centred on the town of Esk. It was created in 2008 from a merger of the Shire of Esk and the Shire of Kilcoy. It is commonly known as the Brisbane Valley,due to the Brisbane River which courses through the region,although significant parts of the region lie outside the hydrological Brisbane Valley itself.
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.
David Francis Gibson is a former Australian politician who served as the 18th member for Gympie in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2006 to 2015. In January 2015 Gibson retired from State politics.
The 2012 Queensland state election was held on 24 March 2012 to elect all 89 members of the Legislative Assembly,a unicameral parliament.
Cameron Robert Dick is an Australian politician and member of the Labor Party currently serving as the 51st Treasurer 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.
Mark Thomas Ryan is an Australian Labor Party politician who has represented Morayfield in the Queensland Parliament since the 2015 election,having previously represented the seat from 2009 to 2012
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 2012 Queensland state election on 24 March 2012.
William Stephen Byrne is an Australian Labor politician who was elected to represent Rockhampton in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland at the 2012 state election. He served until his retirement due to ill health in 2017.
Neil Aaron Symes is an Australian politician who was the member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Lytton from 2012 to 2015. He was the youngest member of the Queensland Parliament during his term.
Allen Maxwell Hodges was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
