Vicky Elizabeth Darling (born 29 November 1966) is an Australian
Labor
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politician
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elected to the
Queensland
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Legislative Assembly in September 2006 as the member for
Sandgate.
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
Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman (born 12 August 1963) is an Australian former politician who served as the 38th Premier of Queensland from 26 March 2012 to 14 February 2015. He served as the member for Ashgrove in the Legislative Assembly of Que ...
. 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
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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.
Darling is currently the CEO of Volunteering & Contact ACT.
See also
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Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 2006–2009
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Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 2009–2012
References
External links
Official website
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1966 births
Living people
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland
21st-century Australian politicians
21st-century Australian women politicians
Women members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly