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Clem Jones [1] AO (16 January 1918 – 15 December 2007), [2] a surveyor by profession, was the longest serving Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Queensland, representing the Labor Party from 1961 to 1975. He was chair of the Darwin Reconstruction Commission from 1975 to 1978. [ 3 ]
The Lord Mayor serves a four-year term running concurrently with that of the City Council, and is elected by optional preferential voting. As Brisbane is by far the largest local government area in Australia, the Lord Mayor is elected by the largest single-member electorate in the Australia. Like all mayors in Queensland, the Lord Mayor has ...
Sir John Beals Chandler (21 February 1887 – 19 January 1962), frequently referred to as J. B. Chandler, was the Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1940 to 1952, and the Member for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, representing the electorate of Hamilton from the October 1943 by-election to the 1947 state election, where he chose not to seek re-election.
Adrian Jurgen Schrinner (born 1977) is the current Lord Mayor of Brisbane. He was first elected as the Councillor for Chandler Ward in 2005 and became a member of Civic Cabinet three years later. [4] Schrinner became Deputy Mayor in 2011, and succeeded Graham Quirk as Lord Mayor in 2019, following his retirement from the council. [5]
Graham Michael Quirk (born c. 1958) is a former Australian politician who served as the 16th Lord Mayor of Brisbane. [1] From 2008 until 2011, he was Deputy Lord Mayor under Campbell Newman, succeeding the latter when Newman stepped down to prepare to contest the 2012 Queensland State Election, at which he was elected as the Premier of Queensland.
James Gerard Soorley (born 8 April 1951) is an Australian lobbyist and former politician.He served as Labor Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1991 to 2003. [1] A laicised Catholic priest, [2] Soorley has a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in psychology, from Macquarie University, and a Master of Arts in organisational psychology from Loyola University Chicago.
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14th Lord Mayor of Brisbane; In office 30 May 2003 – 27 March 2004: Preceded by: Jim Soorley: Succeeded by: Campbell Newman: Deputy Lord Mayor of Brisbane; In office 1 May 1997 – 30 May 2003: Leader: Jim Soorley: Brisbane City Councillor for Dutton Park Ward; In office 1985 – 30 May 2003: Succeeded by: Helen Abrahams: Personal details; Born