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The Lord Mayor of Brisbane is the chief executive of the City of Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland, and the head of the Brisbane City Council.Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner of the Liberal National Party was sworn in on 8 April 2019, following the resignation of Graham Quirk.
William Alfred Jolly CMG (11 September 1881, Spring Hill, Brisbane – 30 May 1955, Windsor, Brisbane) was an Australian politician who was the Mayor of the Town of Windsor from 1918 to 1923, the first Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1925 to 1931, and a member of the Australian Parliament for the Division of Lilley from 1937 to 1943.
Sallyanne Atkinson was elected Lord Mayor in 1985, after defeating the Labor incumbent Roy Harvey. She became the first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane, as well as the first from the Liberal Party. [8] She was eventually defeated in 1991 in a narrow upset election win by Jim Soorley, who received preferences from the Greens candidate Drew Hutton. [8]
The first woman mayor of Mayor of Auckland City, Catherine Tizard, was elected in 1983. Sallyanne Atkinson was the first woman elected Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Australia in 1985. Virginia Beach first elected Meyera Oberndorf mayor in 1988, making her the city's first woman mayor. She served in that capacity until 2009.
Lord Mayor of Brisbane – Sallyanne Atkinson – 1985 [47] Cabinet Minister – Yvonne Chapman – 1986 [48] (She became the Minister for Welfare Services, Youth and Ethnic Affairs.) Governor of Queensland – Leneen Forde – 1992 [49] Deputy Premier of Queensland – Joan Sheldon – 1996 [50] Premier of Queensland – Anna Bligh – 2007 [51]
This Category contains articles about Mayors of Brisbane, Queensland. Pages in category "Mayors and Lord Mayors of Brisbane" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total.
The 1985 Brisbane City Council election was held on 30 March 1985 to elect a lord mayor and 26 aldermen to the City of Brisbane. [1] The election was held as part of the statewide local government elections in Queensland, Australia. [2] The incumbent Labor Party administration was defeated, with the Liberal Party winning more than 50% of the vote.
Australia's first female lord mayor, Joy Cummings, was elected to Newcastle City Council in 1974. In 1951 the Australian Local Government Women's Association (ALGWA) was formed. The ALGWA is an association of local government women helping other women to join them. In 1975 Western Australia and the Northern Territory elected their first women ...