1. Concetto Antonio Sciacca was an Australian politician of the Australian Labor Party and member of the Australian House of Representatives from July 1987 to March 1996 and again from October 1998 to October 2004, representing the Division of Bowman, Queensland.
Con Sciacca migrated to Australia with his family in 1951 and settled in Queensland, where his father worked as a canecutter.
Con Sciacca founded the group Sciaccas Lawyers which was taken over by the legal group of Shine Lawyers in 2014.
Con Sciacca joined the ALP at the age of 17 and was state president of Young Labor in 1972.
Con Sciacca first stood for parliament at the 1969 Queensland state election at the age of 21.
Con Sciacca made three unsuccessful bids for the state seat of Redlands beginning in 1977, coming closest at the 1985 Redlands state by-election.
Con Sciacca consecutively won the next two elections of 1990 and 1993.
Con Sciacca thus served in the Fourth Hawke Ministry, the First Keating Ministry, and the Second Keating Ministry.
Con Sciacca was defeated by Liberal Party candidate Andrea West in the 1996 election.
Thereafter he started the Sam Con Sciacca Travelling Fellowship through which health experts would visit Australia and present lectures on the latest developments in research and technology.
In 2006, Con Sciacca was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for "service to ex-service personnel, cancer research institutions and service to the Australian parliament".
Con Sciacca was suffering from cancer and in February 2015 was reported to have been cleared of it after an operation performed in 2014.
Con Sciacca died on 21 June 2017, aged 70, after prolonged suffering from cancer at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Brisbane.
Con Sciacca had frequently been admitted to the hospital in the last six months for his deteriorating health.