11 Facts About Leesa Vlahos

Leesa Vlahos represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Taylor for the Labor Party from the 2010 election until her retirement in 2018.

Leesa Vlahos studied Health Administration at the Queensland University of Technology.

Leesa Vlahos then worked in public and private hospitals in Brisbane and later the Repatriation Hospital in Daw Park, South Australia.

Leesa Vlahos was elected to the seat of Taylor after the retirement of the previous Labor member Trish White.

Leesa Vlahos is a former Presiding Officer of the SA Parliament Public Works Committee, a former member of the Aboriginal Lands Parliamentary Standing Committee, and a former member of the Parliamentary Committee on Occupational Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation.

Leesa Vlahos was a member of the Economic and Finance Committee.

Leesa Vlahos previously held offices as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier and assisted in the portfolio areas of Defence Industries, Veterans' Affairs, Health, Mental Health and Substance Abuse and The Arts.

Leesa Vlahos was described by the Australian Financial Review as 'staunchly pro-nuclear' and advocated for nuclear power in Australia at the time that the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission commenced in March 2015.

At the 2018 election, Leesa Vlahos would have been Labor's first-listed candidate on their upper house ticket, but she quit before the publication of the ICAC report into the Oakden scandal.

Leesa Vlahos represented the following portfolios in the Cabinet of South Australia:.

Leesa Vlahos resigned from Cabinet on 17 September 2017 for personal health reasons, but announced that she intended to remain in the House of Assembly until the March 2018 election.