12 Facts About Ros Bates

Rosslyn Mary Bates was born on 25 May 1962 and is an Australian politician.

Ros Bates was awarded the Prime Minister's Centenary of Federation Medal and the Telstra Business Woman of the Year in 2000.

Ros Bates was first elected as the Member for Mudgeeraba in March 2009 after defeating the incumbent Labor Member Dianne Reilly.

Ros Bates was re-elected in March 2012 with an increased majority.

Ros Bates first stood as the Liberal candidate for the seat in 2006 but was defeated.

Questions were referred to Ms Ros Bates regarding this relationship and what, if any, influence she had regarding her appointment, however it was later revealed that she did not have any input into the appointment of her son.

Ros Bates announced her resignation from the Cabinet on 15 February 2013 citing health and family reasons.

Previously, Ros Bates had undergone intensive high dose antibiotic therapy through a catheter threaded directly into her heart for six weeks due to a shoulder infection.

In June 2013, Ros Bates was accused of misleading parliament and breaching the national health practitioner law by falsely claiming to be a registered nurse despite allowing her registration to lapse, despite previously being a registered nurse for 30 years.

AHPRA, the body overseeing the national health practitioner laws concluded that Ros Bates did not intend to provide misleading information and consider the matter to be closed.

On 19 October 2013, the Queensland Parliament's ethics committee concluded that Ros Bates did not intend to deliberately mislead the Parliament.

In May 2024, Bates yelled 'cross your legs' during question time discourse from the Queensland minister for health and women, Shannon Fentiman.