1. Deborah Kay Frecklington was born on 3 September 1971 and is an Australian politician who serves as the member for Nanango in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, having won the seat at the 2012 state election.
12 Facts About Deb Frecklington
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Deb Frecklington was the Leader of the Queensland Opposition and leader of the Liberal National Party of Queensland before resigning as party leader following the LNP's loss at the 2020 Queensland state election.
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Deb Frecklington is currently serving as Attorney-General of Queensland as well as Minister for Justice and Minister for Integrity under David Crisafulli.
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Deb Frecklington grew up on a cattle property at Guluguba and attended Guluguba State School.
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Deb Frecklington has worked in the clothing, motor vehicle and newspaper industries.
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Deb Frecklington's career takes in the co-management of broad-acre cropping properties with her husband.
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Deb Frecklington was appointed assistant minister for Finance, Administration and Regulatory Reform on 3 April 2012 and subsequently appointed to the role of assistant minister to the premier in June 2014.
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Deb Frecklington secured 25 votes out of a possible 39 in the first round of voting.
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Deb Frecklington became only the second female Queensland opposition leader in history, and the first woman to lead the non-Labor side in Queensland.
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Deb Frecklington is the second LNP leader from a long-held national seat; Nanango was the seat of former long-serving National Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who held it and its successor seat, Barambah, from 1947 to 1987.
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Deb Frecklington took the LNP into the 2020 Queensland state election.
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Deb Frecklington is one of the few state politicians in Australia to have never spent a day on the backbench, having spent her entire career as a junior minister, shadow minister, deputy opposition leader and opposition leader.