Naomi Wilson

Naomi Kate Wynn Wilson (born 27 January 1940) is a Tanzanian-born Australian politician and former teacher who was a National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1995 to 1998, representing the district of Mulgrave.

Family Wilson, who was born in Arusha in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), is the daughter of the Welsh Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika, and of Ruth L. Minton Taylor. that had been founded by her 2nd-great grandfather Matthew Jones Senior (1800 - 1867).

Her maternal great-grandmother was the former senator and Premier of Tasmania, Henry Dobson.

Career Wilson was a Mulgrave Shire councillor from 1991 to 1995. When the National Party came to power under the leadership Rob Borbidge in February 1996, Wilson was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Families, Youth and Community Care. In February 1998 she won promotion to the ministry, becoming the Minister for Families, Youth and Community Care.

When Rappolt prematurely retired in late 1998 Wilson stood as the endorsed National Party candidate for the Mulgrave by-election, in which she lost slightly to Labor's Warren Pitt. Wilson stood as the National Party candidate in the neighbouring district Cairns during the 2001 state election in which she was defeated by incumbent Labor MP Desley Boyle.

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