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Jackie Trad
Jacklyn Anne Trad (born 25 April 1972) is an Australian company director and former politician, currently serving as CEO of the Clean Energy Council. She was Deputy Premier of Queensland from 2015 to 2020, Treasurer of Queensland from 2017 to 2020 and represented the Electoral district of South Brisbane for the Labor Party from April 2012 to October 2020.
Trad also served as Queensland's Minister for Transport, Minister for Trade, Minister for Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning, and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships in the Palaszczuk Government.
Trad is the second daughter of Lebanese immigrants; Lebanese Arabic was her first language. The family returned to Lebanon in 1979 to live in Beirut for one year where she attended the International College. Back in Australia, she attended Lourdes Hill College in Brisbane and her parents became local small business owners, operating a fruit shop in Woolloongabba. She began an arts degree at Griffith University and completed a Master of Public Policy at the University of Sydney.[citation needed]
She grew up in South Brisbane and currently lives in the suburb of West End with her husband and two children.
Trad identifies as Catholic and with her Maronite Church heritage.
Trad was elected to the legislature at the South Brisbane by-election held on 28 April 2012. The by-election was held after the resignation of the previous Labor Party incumbent and former Premier Anna Bligh.
Trad has also held several positions within the structure of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She was formerly the Queensland ALP Assistant State Secretary, President of the Kurilpa Branch, a delegate to the ALP National and State Conferences, member of the National Executive Committee and also the Secretary of Labor Women's Organisation Queensland. She is the former leader of Queensland Labor's Left Faction. At the age of 26, she was a paper candidate for Labor at the 1998 state election, running in the Darling Downs seat of Cunnhingam and finishing third with 18.9%.
Trad is on the record as being a supporter of same-sex marriage. She is also a supporter of adoption by same-sex partners.
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Jackie Trad
Jacklyn Anne Trad (born 25 April 1972) is an Australian company director and former politician, currently serving as CEO of the Clean Energy Council. She was Deputy Premier of Queensland from 2015 to 2020, Treasurer of Queensland from 2017 to 2020 and represented the Electoral district of South Brisbane for the Labor Party from April 2012 to October 2020.
Trad also served as Queensland's Minister for Transport, Minister for Trade, Minister for Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning, and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships in the Palaszczuk Government.
Trad is the second daughter of Lebanese immigrants; Lebanese Arabic was her first language. The family returned to Lebanon in 1979 to live in Beirut for one year where she attended the International College. Back in Australia, she attended Lourdes Hill College in Brisbane and her parents became local small business owners, operating a fruit shop in Woolloongabba. She began an arts degree at Griffith University and completed a Master of Public Policy at the University of Sydney.[citation needed]
She grew up in South Brisbane and currently lives in the suburb of West End with her husband and two children.
Trad identifies as Catholic and with her Maronite Church heritage.
Trad was elected to the legislature at the South Brisbane by-election held on 28 April 2012. The by-election was held after the resignation of the previous Labor Party incumbent and former Premier Anna Bligh.
Trad has also held several positions within the structure of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She was formerly the Queensland ALP Assistant State Secretary, President of the Kurilpa Branch, a delegate to the ALP National and State Conferences, member of the National Executive Committee and also the Secretary of Labor Women's Organisation Queensland. She is the former leader of Queensland Labor's Left Faction. At the age of 26, she was a paper candidate for Labor at the 1998 state election, running in the Darling Downs seat of Cunnhingam and finishing third with 18.9%.
Trad is on the record as being a supporter of same-sex marriage. She is also a supporter of adoption by same-sex partners.
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