Anthony Joseph Lynham (born 12 April 1960) is an Australian politician who was a
Labor Party member of the
Legislative Assembly of Queensland
The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland established under the Constitution of Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembl ...
representing the
electoral district of Stafford
Stafford is a Legislative Assembly of Queensland electoral district in the state of Queensland, Australia.
It is located in the inner northern residential suburbs of Brisbane. Suburbs in the current electorate include Stafford, Gordon Park, ...
from 2014 to 2020. He was the Queensland Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy. Lynham was an
oral and maxillofacial surgeon.
Dental and Medical career
Lynham is a former maxillofacial surgeon who was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. He also was a member of the hospital trauma team. He graduated in dentistry from University of Queensland and medicine from Newcastle University. He holds a surgical fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh in the general stream. Further training was completed in Switzerland.
One of his roles was the training of maxillofacial surgeons both at the college and hospital level. He is an active researcher and has published regularly. He is an associate professor at the University of Queensland and an adjunct professor at the Queensland University of Technology.
Political career
Lynham was first elected on 19 July 2014 at the
Stafford by-election, which resulted from the resignation of former member
Chris Davis, defeating the
Liberal National candidate Bob Andersen with a 62 percent
two-party
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vote from a 19-point
two-party-preferred
In Australian politics, the two-party-preferred vote (TPP or 2PP) is the result of an election or opinion poll after preferences have been distributed to the highest two candidates, who in some cases can be independents. For the purposes of TPP ...
swing. Lynham then entered the Shadow Cabinet.
Palaszczuk government
On 16 February 2015, he was sworn in as Minister for State Development and Minister for Natural Resources and Mines in the
Palaszczuk Ministry.
On 10 September 2020, Lynham announced he would retire from the
Queensland Parliament
The Parliament of Queensland is the legislature of Queensland, Australia. As provided under the Constitution of Queensland, the Parliament consists of the Monarch of Australia and the Legislative Assembly. It has been the only unicameral st ...
and not contest the seat of
Stafford in the
2020 election.
References
External links
Parliamentary biographyQueensland Labor candidate pageOfficial website
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Queensland Maxillofacial Group
1960 births
Living people
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Australian maxillofacial surgeons
University of Newcastle (Australia) alumni
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
University of Queensland faculty
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland
Labor Right politicians
21st-century Australian politicians
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