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Naomi Wilson

Naomi Wilson

Australian politician

Naomi Kate Wynn Wilson OAM (born 27 January 1940) is a former teacher and Tanzanian-born Australian politician, who was a National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1995 to 1998, as which she represented the district of Mulgrave.[1]

Quick Facts Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Mulgrave, Preceded by ...

Wilson is the daughter[2] of the Welsh Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika,[3] William (Bill) Wynn Jones,[3] and of Ruth L. Minton Taylor,[3][2] and the great-granddaughter of the former senator and Premier of Tasmania, Henry Dobson. Wilson was born in Arusha in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).

Wilson was a Mulgrave Shire councillor from 1991 to 1995.[1] Wilson entered state parliament at the 1995 state election by defeating incumbent Labor Party MP Warren Pitt for the seat of Mulgrave.[4] When the National Party came to power under the leadership Rob Borbidge in February 1996, Wilson was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Families, Youth and Community Care. In February 1998 she won promotion to the ministry, becoming the Minister for Families, Youth and Community Care.[1] Wilson held this position until her defeat the following June at the 1998 state election, where she finished in third place behind Labor's Warren Pitt and victorious One Nation candidate Charles Rappolt.[5]

When Rappolt prematurely retired in late 1998 Wilson stood as the endorsed National Party candidate for the Mulgrave by-election, in which she lost slightly to Labor's Warren Pitt.[6] Wilson stood as the National Party candidate in the neighbouring district Cairns during the 2001 state election in which she was defeated by incumbent Labor MP Desley Boyle.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  2. [2]
    "NEW BISHOP APPOINTED". The Sydney Morning Herald. 23 July 1947. p. 4.
  3. [3]
    "Entry for 'WYNN JONES, WILLIAM (BILL) (1900 - 1950)', Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography". Evangelical History Association. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  4. [4]
    "1995 Queensland election". Psephos.
  5. [5]
    "1998 Queensland election". Psephos.
  6. [6]
    "Mulgrave By-election" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 July 2009.
  7. [7]
    "2001 State General Election - Cairns - District Summary". Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived from the original on 6 September 2008.
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