Jeffrey William Seeney was born on 2 February 1957 and is a former Australian politician and the former Deputy Premier, Minister for State Development and Minister for Infrastructure and Planning of Queensland.
19 Facts About Jeff Seeney
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Jeff Seeney was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2017, representing Callide for the Nationals and merged Liberal National Party.
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Jeff Seeney was elected as leader of the LNP's Parliamentary Party and became the opposition leader in the Parliament while Newman led the LNP's team of candidatesinto the 2012 Queensland state election.
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The LNP won a landslide victory at that election, and as per a previous agreement Jeff Seeney ceded his post as LNP parliamentary leader to Newman, clearing the way for Newman to become Premier of Queensland.
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Jeff Seeney served on the Monto shire council from 1992 to 1998, serving as the deputy mayor for the last four years.
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Jeff Seeney was elected to parliament in the 1998 Queensland election.
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Jeff Seeney was elected deputy leader of the National Party alongside leader Lawrence Springborg in February 2003.
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Jeff Seeney became Opposition leader in 2006 after Springborg did not contest the position following his loss of two subsequent elections.
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Jeff Seeney held a range of Shadow Ministers including Mines and Energy, Natural Resources and Treasury.
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Jeff Seeney delivered on promises made as Opposition Leader to develop regional planning legislation to facilitate the coal seam gas industry and protect landholders rights and prime agricultural land.
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Jeff Seeney demanded funding for the Royalties for Regions program investing $500 million into regional Queenslands infrastructure at a time when the Government was cutting expenditure across the board as his price for supporting Treasuries asset sales program.
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Jeff Seeney was the architect of a review of Queensland's land title system that saw huge areas of leasehold land converted to freehold title on the basis of a nett present value calculation of the value of the lease payments.
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On 18 September 2006, Jeff Seeney was endorsed as the new state National Party leader, with Maroochydore representative Fiona Simpson as his deputy.
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Jeff Seeney had stood for the position on a ticket with Toowoomba based colleague Stuart Copeland and Jeff Seeney and Simpson are reported to have never got along from the beginning.
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On 22 March 2011, Jeff Seeney became opposition leader for a second time following Langbroek's resignation from that position after the LNP's party hierarchy supported Campbell Newman in his effort to become Premier even though Jeff Seeney's return to the Opposition leader's position was not part of the Newman plan and came as a shock to LNP Party officials driving the Newman for Premier plan.
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Jeff Seeney agreed that if Newman was elected to the legislature, he would cede his post as parliamentary leader to Newman.
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Jeff Seeney resigned as leader of the LNP Parliamentary Party to make way for Newman in accordance with their pre-election agreement and Newman announced that he would name Jeff Seeney as Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development, with additional responsibility for the Coordinator General.
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Jeff Seeney was the highest-ranking minister from the Nationals side of the merger.
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Jeff Seeney was Deputy Premier for the entirety of the Newman Government's tenure despite deep divisions developing between the Premiers office on the one hand and Jeff Seeney andTreasurer Tim Nicholls on the other.