Electorate

KURWONGBAH

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Party

AustraLian Labor Party (ALP)

Date of Election : 24 May 1997 (By-election)

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Parliamentary Service

Chair, Members’ Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee from 12 November 2008. Member, Estimates Committee C, 2008. Chair, Investigation into Altruistic Surrogacy Committee 14 February 2008 – 8 October 2008. Member, Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committees from 6 February 2007.  Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Women 13 September 2006 - 18 October 2006. Minister for Justice and Attorney-General 28 July 2005 - 13 September 2006. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Energy and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy 3 March 2005 - 28 July 2005. Parliamentary Secretary to Minister for State Development and Innovation 19 February 2004 - 3 March 2005. Member, Select Committee on the Consequences of Changing Political Status 14 October 2003 - 13 January 2004. Member, Estimates Committee F, 2003. Chair, Scrutiny of Legislation Committee 30 July 1998 - 23 January 2001. Chair, Estimates Committee C, 2001. Member, Estimates Committee B 1999 and 2000. Member, Estimates Committee G 1998. Member, Members' Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee 30 October 1997 - 15 May 1998.

Current Parliamentary service is highlighted in green.

CURRENT Ministerial Legislative Committee Membership

Transport and Main Roads; Primary Industries and Fisheries; Public Works and Housing from 17 April 2007.

Party Activity

Branch Delegate, State Council (1995, 1996); Branch Delegate, State Conference (1991, 1994, 1996); Member of Disputes Tribunal (1994 - 1997); Chairperson, Disputes Tribunal (1991-1994).

Personal

Born Brisbane, 27 November 1958. Married, two children. L.L.B. Queensland Institute of Technology. Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, Queensland Institute of Technology. Prior to election, Solicitor, Supreme Court of Queensland. Former Member of: Redcliffe Hospital Ethics Committee and Former Chairperson of Australian Community Safety and Research Organisation. Occupational interests: community safety, privacy, youth policy, employment initiatives, alternate dispute resolution, professional ethics, human services and status of women.