Tarnya Lisa Smith (born 17 March 1965) is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal National member of the

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from 2012 to 2017, representing the electorate of Mount Ommaney. Smith, who had been the candidate for the federal seat of

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at the 2010 state election, was elected to the Legislative Assembly at the 2012 state election, defeating new Labor candidate Ben Marczyk. She narrowly retained Mount Ommaney following the 2015 election. The narrow defeat of the Newman Government relegated the LNP to opposition and Smith was promoted to Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs by

Lawrence Springborg Lawrence James Springborg (born 17 February 1968) is an Australian politician. He led the National Party in the Queensland Parliament from 2003 to 2006 and again in 2008, before becoming the first leader of the merged Liberal National Party ...

. Her elevation to Shadow Minister for Science, Innovation and the Digital Economy came with the election of

Tim Nicholls Timothy James Nicholls (born 6 April 1965) is an Australian politician and a former leader of the Liberal National Party of Queensland. He served as the Treasurer of Queensland and the Minister for Trade of that state between March/April 2012 ...

as Opposition Leader on 6 May 2015. Smith's seat of Mount Ommaney was altered by an electoral redistribution for the 2017 state election: her 0.2% majority from the 2015 election, already the narrowest in the state, became a 1.0% Labor margin on the new boundaries, making it a notionally Labor seat. She recontested her seat, but was defeated by Labor candidate

Jess Pugh Jessica Claire Pugh (born 29 May 1985) is an Australian politician. She has been the Labor member for Mount Ommaney in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since the 2017 Queensland election. Early life and education Born in Brisbane, Pugh at ...

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