Annastacia Palaszczuk is an Australian politician. She has been the Premier of Queensland since 2015. She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the seat of Inala at the 2006 election. She led Labor to victory at the 2015 election, becoming the first woman in Australian history to become a state premier from opposition.
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Annastacia Palaszczuk is an Australian politician. She has been the Premier of Queensland since 2015. She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the seat of Inala at the 2006 election. She held several roles in the Bligh Government from 2009 to 2012, when Queensland Labor suffered a historic defeat. She led Labor to victory at the 2015 election, becoming the first woman in Australian history to become a state premier from opposition. She is the first Australian female Premier to win three terms in Government. Her father, veteran state Labor MP Henry PałasZczuk, was born in Germany to Polish parents. Her Australian mother, Lorelle, is descended from German settlers. She attended St Mary’s College, Ipswich from 1982 to 1986. She graduated with degrees in Arts and Laws from the University of Queensland, a Masters of Arts from theUniversity of London, and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from Australian National University. She also has a PhD in Law from the Australian National College of Law, Brisbane. She lives in south-west Brisbane with her husband and their two children. She works as a political adviser and lawyer in Brisbane. Her husband is a barrister and former head of legal practice at the Queensland Supreme Court. She currently lives with her family in Brisbane’s south-east. She runs a law practice in Brisbane and is married to Brisbane City Councillor and former Mayor of Brisbane, John-Michael O’Toole. Her family has three children, two of whom are boys.
She and her husband have two step-children and one step-grandchild. She has a son and a step-daughter who are both studying at university in Sydney and Melbourne. Her daughter has a daughter and a son-in-law who is studying at University of Sydney. PalasZzzuk is a member of the Australian Institute of Architects and the Australian Council of Trade and Industry. She worked as a policy adviser to a number of Labor ministers, including Minister for Communities, Disabilities and Seniors, Warren Pitt and former Minister for the Environment, Dean Wells. In February 2011, she was promoted to Minister for Transport and Multicultural Affairs. At the 2012 election, the. Bligh government was overwhelmingly defeated by the Liberal National Party led by Campbell Newman, losing 44 seats. She announced that she would be a candidate to succeed Bligh as premier. She took the leadership unopposed at a meeting of the Labor Caucus on 28 March in Ipswich. She became the Leader of Queensland Labor, becoming Leader of the Opposition. After the election, she apologised for losing the trust of the community. She defended the decision to sell off state assets after promising not to do so at the 2009 election, saying it was made to save jobs, but that she is the single point where she lost faith with the community across Queensland. She said she was under no illusion about the task ahead of the task of the rebuild that we need to do and the fact that weneed to restore people’s faith.
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