Cynthia Lui | |
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Deputy Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly | |
In office 23 May – 12 September 2023 | |
Speaker | Joe Kelly (acting) |
Preceded by | Joe Kelly |
Succeeded by | Joe Kelly |
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cook | |
Assumed office 25 November 2017 | |
Preceded by | Billy Gordon |
Personal details | |
Born | Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia | 17 February 1977
Political party | Labor |
Website | www |
Cynthia Lillian Lui (born 17 February 1977) is an Australian politician. She has been the Australian Labor Party member for Cook in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2017.[1] Originally from Yam Island in the Torres Strait, Lui is the first Torres Strait Islander to be elected to any parliament.[2][3] She worked as a community worker in Cairns to win internally as a representative for Cook, she then went on to secure her place within the Labor Party as the preferred candidate.[4] Lui gave her maiden speech in the Queensland Parliament on 15 February 2018.[5]
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