Contact details
Ministerial Office Postal Address
GPO Box 149BRISBANE QLD 4001Ministerial Office
1 William StreetBRISBANE QLD 4000Phone: (07) 3719 7400Fax: n/aEmail: [email protected]
Electorate Office Postal Address
PO Box 273
WATERFORD QLD 4133Electorate Office Address
Shops 13/14, Waterford Shopping Centre
22 Loganlea Road
WATERFORD WEST QLD 4133Phone: (07) 3445 3100Fax: n/aEmail: [email protected]
Parliamentary Service
Current:
- Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Minister for Women and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence: 12 Nov 2020
Past:
- Minister for Employment and Small Business and Minister for Training and Skills Development: 12 Dec 2017 - 11 Nov 2020
- Minister for Communities, Women and Youth, Minister for Child Safety and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence: 8 Dec 2015 - 11 Dec 2017
- Minister for Communities, Women and Youth, Minister for Child Safety and Minister for Multicultural Affairs: 16 Feb 2015 - 8 Dec 2015
Career
Prior to election - Solicitor, Hall Payne Lawyers. Industrial advocate for the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. Judge's Associate in the Supreme Court of Queensland to her Honour Justice Atkinson, board member of the Logan Women's Health and Wellbeing Centre, Secretary of the Centre Against Sexual Violence in Logan and the Duty Solicitor at the Beenleigh Neighbourhood Centre
Community Activity: Vice Patron – Surf Life Saving Queensland. Co-Patron – Women’s Cricket.
Personal
Education:
Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (First Class Hons) QUT. Master of Laws at Melbourne University
Additional Information
Notes: Shannon is committed to social justice and throughout her career has worked to improve the lives of working people. She is passionate about fighting discrimination and unfairness at work and in the community.