1. John-Paul Honore Langbroek was born on 31 January 1961 and is an Australian politician who has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland representing the centre-right Liberal Party and its successor, the centre-right Liberal National Party, in the seat of Surfers Paradise since 2004.
John-Paul Langbroek was a minister in the Newman government before its defeat at the 2015 state election.
John-Paul Langbroek's father is Dutch and his mother is American with Jamaican ancestry.
The family travelled around rural Queensland where John-Paul Langbroek Sr worked at various schools.
John-Paul Langbroek began his schooling at Burleigh Heads State School on the Gold Coast and graduated from Sunnybank State High School before studying Dentistry at the University of Queensland in the 1980s.
John-Paul Langbroek finished his degree in 1983 and departed for London where he met his wife Stacey.
John-Paul Langbroek entered politics in 2001 when he stood as the Liberal candidate in the May 2001 by-election for Surfers Paradise.
John-Paul Langbroek stood again in Surfers Paradise at the 2004 state election and won convincingly with Bell being pushed into third place.
John-Paul Langbroek has held the seat comfortably ever since, and as of the 2017 election sits on a majority of 19.8 percent, making Surfers Paradise the safest LNP seat in the chamber.
John-Paul Langbroek has held various shadow portfolios, including health, public works, mines and energy and immediately before his ascension to the leadership he has served as Shadow Minister for Education and Skills and Shadow Minister for the Arts from 12 August 2008.
John-Paul Langbroek was elected leader of the LNP following the 2009 state election after the LNP's first leader, Lawrence Springborg, announced his retirement.
John-Paul Langbroek's election marked the first time in 84 years that the non-Labor side in Queensland had been led by someone aligned federally with the Liberals or their predecessors.
Polling for much of 2009 and 2010 showed the LNP ahead of Labor on the two-party vote, and John-Paul Langbroek consistently led incumbent Labor Premier Anna Bligh as preferred premier.
However, after Labor's numbers rebounded in the wake of the Queensland floods, John-Paul Langbroek came under growing pressure from the LNP's organisational wing to stand down.
John-Paul Langbroek appeared to have the support of most of the party room as well.
John-Paul Langbroek left the position after Lawrence Springborg lost the leadership to Tim Nicholls with Deb Frecklington replacing Langbroek in his position as deputy leader.
John-Paul Langbroek has remained on the opposition frontbench under Nicholls, Frecklington and Crisafulli.
John-Paul Langbroek has expressed the pain of having a relative with motor neurone disease.