Leeanne Enoch

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The Honourable

Leeanne Enoch

MP
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Minister for Communities and Housing of Queensland
Assumed office
12 November 2020
PremierAnnastacia Palaszczuk
Preceded byCoralee O'Rourke (Communities)
Mick de Brenni (Housing)
Minister for The Arts of Queensland
Assumed office
12 December 2017
PremierAnnastacia Palaszczuk
Preceded byAnnastacia Palaszczuk
Minister for Environment and the Great Barrier Reef of Queensland
In office
12 December 2017 – 12 November 2020
PremierAnnastacia Palaszczuk
Preceded bySteven Miles
Succeeded byMeaghan Scanlon
Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy of Queensland
In office
16 February 2015 – 12 December 2017
PremierAnnastacia Palaszczuk
Preceded byIan Walker
Succeeded byKate Jones (Innovation)
Mick de Brenni (Digital Technology)
Minister for Small Business
of Queensland
In office
8 December 2015 – 12 December 2017
PremierAnnastacia Palaszczuk
Preceded byKate Jones
Succeeded byShannon Fentiman
Minister for Housing and Public Works
of Queensland
In office
16 February 2015 – 8 December 2015
PremierAnnastacia Palaszczuk
Preceded byTim Mander
Succeeded byMick de Brenni
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Algester
Assumed office
31 January 2015
Preceded byAnthony Shorten
Personal details
Political partyLabor
Children2
Alma materGriffith University
University of East London
OccupationTeacher
Websitewww.leeanneenoch.com

Leeanne Margaret Enoch is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Communities and Housing and Minister for the Arts and Digital Economy of Queensland. She has also served as the Labor Party member for Algester in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015.

Early life and education[]

Enoch was born the oldest of four, and became the first member of her family to graduate from university. She is the sister of playwright Wesley Enoch, who is the eldest of three brothers.[1]

Career[]

Enoch worked as a high school English and drama teacher in schools across South-East Queensland and East London,[where?] later becoming a manager of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy in the State Education Department.[2]

Upon her election to the Queensland Parliament in 2015, Enoch became a first-term cabinet minister, becoming Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Science and Innovation.[3][4] Her department launched the Advance Queensland initiative in June 2015, in a drive to create jobs in new and emerging industries. The Advance Queensland Expert Panel is an independent panel created to provide advice to government.[5][6]

She served as Minister for Environment and the Great Barrier Reef, Minister for Science, and Minister for Housing and Public Works (c. 2017).[7]

Enoch is an Aboriginal Australian of the Quandamooka people of North Stradbroke Island, and is the first Indigenous Australian woman elected to the Queensland Parliament. (She was followed in 2017 by Cynthia Lui, the first Torres Strait Islander to be elected to any parliament.)[8][2]

As of September 2021, Enoch serves as the Minister for Communities and Housing, Minister for Digital Economy and Minister for the Arts.[9]

Other activities[]

Enoch was a witness in Eatock v Bolt, a 2011 decision of the Federal Court of Australia which held that two articles written by columnist and commentator Andrew Bolt and published in The Herald Sun newspaper had contravened section 18C, of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. Bolt had accused Enoch and other Aboriginal people of "choosing" their identity for personal benefit.[10]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Two of us: Leeanne and Wesley Enoch". The Age. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original on 13 June 2015.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Labor's Leeanne Enoch to become one of two Indigenous MPs". ABC News. 31 January 2015. Archived from the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  3. ^ Green, Antony. "Algester". Queensland Election 2015. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Queensland's new Labor Cabinet sworn in at Government House". Australian Broadcasting Corporation 16 February 2015. 15 February 2015. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  5. ^ State of Queensland. Department of the Premier and Cabinet. "Advance Queensland Business Development Fund test". Advance Queensland. Access Denied. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Advance Queensland delivering jobs for Queenslanders". Ministerial Media Statements. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  7. ^ "Hon Leeanne Enoch". Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  8. ^ Higgins, Isabella (29 November 2017). "New Torres Strait Islander MP Cynthia Lui aims to inspire next generation of Indigenous politicians". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  9. ^ The Queensland Cabinet and Ministerial Directory,, accessed 17 September 2021
  10. ^ Eatock v Bolt [2011] FCA 1103, (2011) 197 FCR 261, Federal Court (Australia).

External links[]

Parliament of Queensland
Preceded by
Anthony Shorten 		Member for Algester
2015–present 		Incumbent
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