Michael Brosnan

Michael Timothy Brosnan (5 December 1907 – 20 July 1966) was a publican and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography Brosnan was born in the outback Queensland town of Winton to parents Michael Brosnan and his wife Edith Elizabeth (née Kettle). He worked for the Tramway Department of the Brisbane City Council as an electrical fitter and mechanic from 1928 until 1944. He then became an organiser for the Electrical Trades Union from 1944 to 1950 and then was licensee at a series of hotels in Brisbane, Townsville, South Australia, and Tewantin. and together had one son.

While a member of the Labor, he held the following party positions: Member, ALP Industrial Groups Executive Member, Queensland ALP Executive Committee, 1953 - 1956 Delegate, Queensland Central Executive, 1953 - 1956 Queensland delegate to the federal ALP conference, 1956

He was also the sole Australian delegate at the General Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Ottawa, Canada in 1952.