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John-Paul Langbroek
John-Paul Honoré Langbroek is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts in Queensland since 1 November 2024. He has been the member of the Queensland parliament for Surfers Paradise since 2004, representing the Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal National Party (LNP). Langbroek served as Leader of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the LNP from 2009 to 2011. He was previously a minister in the Newman government before its defeat at the 2015 state election.
John-Paul Honoré Langbroek[citation needed] was born in Assen in the Netherlands and moved to Brisbane as a one-year-old in 1962. His father is Dutch and his mother is American with Jamaican ancestry. John-Paul and his sister, Melbourne-based media personality Kate Langbroek, grew up as the only two children of Jehovah's Witnesses. The family travelled around rural Queensland, where Langbroek Sr worked at various schools. John-Paul began his schooling at Burleigh Heads State School on the Gold Coast and graduated from Sunnybank State High School.
He studied dentistry at the University of Queensland in the 1980s, receiving an honours degree in dental science. At university he showed no early sign of an interest in politics, describing his student days at the University of Queensland as being "toga parties, Lacoste shirts and university japes".
Langbroek entered politics in 2001 when he stood as the Liberal candidate in the May 2001 by-election for Surfers Paradise. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the previous member, former National Party Premier Rob Borbidge who had just led the Coalition to a landslide defeat in the general election earlier in 2001. Due to voter anger at being forced to the polls for the second time in three months, the National vote tumbled to eight percent. This left Langbroek far short of the support he needed to overtake Gold Coast councillor and former mayor Lex Bell, who won the seat as an independent. Langbroek stood again in Surfers Paradise at the 2004 state election and won convincingly with Bell being pushed into third place. He has held the seat comfortably ever since, and as of the 2017 election sits on a majority of 19.8 percent, making Surfers Paradise the safest LNP seat in the chamber.
As an MP he had served in the opposition shadow ministry for a number of years. He has held various shadow portfolios, including health, public works, mines and energy and immediately before his ascension to the leadership he has served as Shadow Minister for Education and Skills and Shadow Minister for the Arts from 12 August 2008.
Langbroek was elected leader of the LNP following the 2009 state election after the LNP's first leader, Lawrence Springborg, announced his retirement. Langbroek named Springborg as his deputy. Langbroek's election marked the first time in 84 years that the non-Labor side in Queensland had been led by someone aligned federally with the Liberals or their predecessors. The Nationals have historically been the stronger non-Labor party in the state, and had been the dominant partner in the non-Labor Coalition from 1925 until the formation of the LNP in 2008.
Polling for much of 2009 and 2010 showed the LNP ahead of Labor on the two-party vote, and Langbroek consistently led incumbent Labor Premier Anna Bligh as preferred premier. However, after Labor's numbers rebounded in the wake of the Queensland floods, Langbroek came under growing pressure from the LNP's organisational wing to stand down. According to Nine News Queensland's Spencer Jolly, LNP president Bruce McIver was trying to engineer a by-election to get Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman, also from the Liberal side of the merger, elected to the legislature so Newman could challenge Langbroek for the LNP leadership.
In 2010, Langbroek as LNP leader opposed the labor government push for state Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal Australians. Saying it was wrong to elevate recognition of one ethnic group within the Queensland community to the exclusion of all others. Langbroek also wanted a Referendum on the issue.
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John-Paul Langbroek
John-Paul Honoré Langbroek is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts in Queensland since 1 November 2024. He has been the member of the Queensland parliament for Surfers Paradise since 2004, representing the Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal National Party (LNP). Langbroek served as Leader of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the LNP from 2009 to 2011. He was previously a minister in the Newman government before its defeat at the 2015 state election.
John-Paul Honoré Langbroek[citation needed] was born in Assen in the Netherlands and moved to Brisbane as a one-year-old in 1962. His father is Dutch and his mother is American with Jamaican ancestry. John-Paul and his sister, Melbourne-based media personality Kate Langbroek, grew up as the only two children of Jehovah's Witnesses. The family travelled around rural Queensland, where Langbroek Sr worked at various schools. John-Paul began his schooling at Burleigh Heads State School on the Gold Coast and graduated from Sunnybank State High School.
He studied dentistry at the University of Queensland in the 1980s, receiving an honours degree in dental science. At university he showed no early sign of an interest in politics, describing his student days at the University of Queensland as being "toga parties, Lacoste shirts and university japes".
Langbroek entered politics in 2001 when he stood as the Liberal candidate in the May 2001 by-election for Surfers Paradise. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the previous member, former National Party Premier Rob Borbidge who had just led the Coalition to a landslide defeat in the general election earlier in 2001. Due to voter anger at being forced to the polls for the second time in three months, the National vote tumbled to eight percent. This left Langbroek far short of the support he needed to overtake Gold Coast councillor and former mayor Lex Bell, who won the seat as an independent. Langbroek stood again in Surfers Paradise at the 2004 state election and won convincingly with Bell being pushed into third place. He has held the seat comfortably ever since, and as of the 2017 election sits on a majority of 19.8 percent, making Surfers Paradise the safest LNP seat in the chamber.
As an MP he had served in the opposition shadow ministry for a number of years. He has held various shadow portfolios, including health, public works, mines and energy and immediately before his ascension to the leadership he has served as Shadow Minister for Education and Skills and Shadow Minister for the Arts from 12 August 2008.
Langbroek was elected leader of the LNP following the 2009 state election after the LNP's first leader, Lawrence Springborg, announced his retirement. Langbroek named Springborg as his deputy. Langbroek's election marked the first time in 84 years that the non-Labor side in Queensland had been led by someone aligned federally with the Liberals or their predecessors. The Nationals have historically been the stronger non-Labor party in the state, and had been the dominant partner in the non-Labor Coalition from 1925 until the formation of the LNP in 2008.
Polling for much of 2009 and 2010 showed the LNP ahead of Labor on the two-party vote, and Langbroek consistently led incumbent Labor Premier Anna Bligh as preferred premier. However, after Labor's numbers rebounded in the wake of the Queensland floods, Langbroek came under growing pressure from the LNP's organisational wing to stand down. According to Nine News Queensland's Spencer Jolly, LNP president Bruce McIver was trying to engineer a by-election to get Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman, also from the Liberal side of the merger, elected to the legislature so Newman could challenge Langbroek for the LNP leadership.
In 2010, Langbroek as LNP leader opposed the labor government push for state Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal Australians. Saying it was wrong to elevate recognition of one ethnic group within the Queensland community to the exclusion of all others. Langbroek also wanted a Referendum on the issue.
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