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Premier
  
Anna Bligh

Succeeded by
  
Kerry Millard

Education
  
Griffith University

Preceded by
  
Kate Jones

Nationality
  
Australian

Parents
  
Elaine Darling

Succeeded by
  
Andrew Powell

Name
  
Vicky Darling

Party
  
Australian Labor Party

Preceded by
  
Gordon Nuttall

Role
  
Politician


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Full Name
  
Vicky Elizabeth Darling

Born
  
29 November 1966 (age 57) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (
1966-11-29
)

Vicky darling


Vicky Elizabeth Darling (born 29 November 1966 in Brisbane, Australia) is a Labor politician elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in September 2006 as the member for Sandgate.

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Darling was preselected by the Labor Party in 2006 She replaced controversial Labor MP Gordon Nuttall who was jailed in July 2009 for corruptly receiving secret commissions.

She was appointed as Minister for the Environment, Resource Management and Climate Change on 22 June 2011, after Kate Jones resigned from cabinet to defend her seat of Ashgrove against Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Campbell Newman. Darling lost her seat in the LNP landslide at the 2012 state election.

Her mother, Elaine Darling, the first female member of the Australian House of Representatives from Queensland, was a Labor MP for Lilley from 1980 until 1993. Her grandfather, Jack Melloy, was a Labor Queensland state MP for Nudgee from 1960 to 1977.

References

Vicky Darling Wikipedia


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