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Jarrod Bleijie
Jarrod Pieter Bleijie (/bleɪ/ BLAY; born 25 January 1982) is an Australian politician serving as the Deputy Premier of Queensland since 28 October 2024. A member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) in the Queensland parliament, Bleijie was elected as the member for Kawana at the 2009 state election, and is the third member since the seat's inception at the 2001 state election. He served as Attorney-General of Queensland from 2012 until 2015 and was appointed Deputy Premier of Queensland in 2024.
Jarrod Bleijie was born on 25 January 1982 in Griffith, New South Wales. His father is Pieter Bleijie and his mother, Christine (Cooper) Bleijie. They moved to Caloundra, Queensland, in 1989. He attended Griffith Primary School, Caloundra State School, and Caloundra State High School, where he graduated in 2000 as school captain. He studied politics at the University of the Sunshine Coast before transferring to Brisbane to complete a Bachelor of Laws at Queensland University of Technology. He graduated in 2007.
While studying law, Bleijie was employed as an articled clerk initially at the Maroochydore law firm of JJ Riba & Company and then at the Sunshine Coast, Queensland law firm Sajen Legal. Following his graduation, he was employed as a solicitor at Sajen Legal. During his legal career, Bleijie specialised in commercial law and management rights.
He was elected to the Parliament of Queensland in 2009, representing the Sunshine Coast electorate of Kawana.
He was promoted to the shadow ministry as Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for Justice and Corrective Services by then Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek in November 2010. Following a leadership change in March 2011, with former Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman taking over the leadership of the LNP from outside the parliament, he was reappointed Shadow Attorney-General, maintaining his Justice responsibilities. He re-contested and won the state seat of Kawana with a two-party preferred swing of 19.9 points, holding the seat by a 26.8-point margin. As of 2012, he had one of the safest seats in the Queensland Parliament.
Following a landslide victory for the Newman-led Liberal National Party, in which Labor secured only 7 of 89 seats, in March 2012 newly elected premier Campbell Newman appointed Bleijie to cabinet as Attorney-General and Minister for Justice.
As Attorney-General, Bleijie introduced an amendment that renamed Queensland civil partnerships for same-sex couples into registered relationships and disallowed state-sanctioned ceremonies. Bleijie subsequently unveiled legislation to ban single people and same-sex couples from having a child through surrogacy. In 2015, Bleijie declared his support for same-sex marriage.
After the defeat of the Newman government Bleijie remained on the opposition front bench under Lawrence Springborg, Tim Nicholls, Deb Frecklington, and David Crisafulli. In 2022, he became deputy leader of the LNP, and hence Deputy Leader of the Opposition, under Crisafulli.
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Jarrod Bleijie
Jarrod Pieter Bleijie (/bleɪ/ BLAY; born 25 January 1982) is an Australian politician serving as the Deputy Premier of Queensland since 28 October 2024. A member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) in the Queensland parliament, Bleijie was elected as the member for Kawana at the 2009 state election, and is the third member since the seat's inception at the 2001 state election. He served as Attorney-General of Queensland from 2012 until 2015 and was appointed Deputy Premier of Queensland in 2024.
Jarrod Bleijie was born on 25 January 1982 in Griffith, New South Wales. His father is Pieter Bleijie and his mother, Christine (Cooper) Bleijie. They moved to Caloundra, Queensland, in 1989. He attended Griffith Primary School, Caloundra State School, and Caloundra State High School, where he graduated in 2000 as school captain. He studied politics at the University of the Sunshine Coast before transferring to Brisbane to complete a Bachelor of Laws at Queensland University of Technology. He graduated in 2007.
While studying law, Bleijie was employed as an articled clerk initially at the Maroochydore law firm of JJ Riba & Company and then at the Sunshine Coast, Queensland law firm Sajen Legal. Following his graduation, he was employed as a solicitor at Sajen Legal. During his legal career, Bleijie specialised in commercial law and management rights.
He was elected to the Parliament of Queensland in 2009, representing the Sunshine Coast electorate of Kawana.
He was promoted to the shadow ministry as Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for Justice and Corrective Services by then Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek in November 2010. Following a leadership change in March 2011, with former Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman taking over the leadership of the LNP from outside the parliament, he was reappointed Shadow Attorney-General, maintaining his Justice responsibilities. He re-contested and won the state seat of Kawana with a two-party preferred swing of 19.9 points, holding the seat by a 26.8-point margin. As of 2012, he had one of the safest seats in the Queensland Parliament.
Following a landslide victory for the Newman-led Liberal National Party, in which Labor secured only 7 of 89 seats, in March 2012 newly elected premier Campbell Newman appointed Bleijie to cabinet as Attorney-General and Minister for Justice.
As Attorney-General, Bleijie introduced an amendment that renamed Queensland civil partnerships for same-sex couples into registered relationships and disallowed state-sanctioned ceremonies. Bleijie subsequently unveiled legislation to ban single people and same-sex couples from having a child through surrogacy. In 2015, Bleijie declared his support for same-sex marriage.
After the defeat of the Newman government Bleijie remained on the opposition front bench under Lawrence Springborg, Tim Nicholls, Deb Frecklington, and David Crisafulli. In 2022, he became deputy leader of the LNP, and hence Deputy Leader of the Opposition, under Crisafulli.
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