Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Di Farmer | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office3: | Minister for Education and Youth Justice |
Term Start3: | 18 December 2023 |
Term End3: | 28 October 2024 |
Premier3: | Steven Miles |
Predecessor3: | Grace Grace |
Office4: | Minister for Training and Skills Development of Queensland |
Term Start4: | 12 November 2020 |
Term End4: | 18 December 2023 |
Premier4: | Annastacia Palaszczuk Steven Miles |
Predecessor4: | Shannon Fentiman |
Successor4: | Lance McCallum (as Minister for Training and Skills) |
Office5: | Minister for Employment and Small Business of Queensland |
Term Start5: | 12 November 2020 |
Term End5: | 18 December 2023 |
Premier5: | Annastacia Palaszczuk Steven Miles |
Predecessor5: | Shannon Fentiman |
Successor5: | Lance McCallum |
Office6: | Minister for Child Safety, Youth and Women of Queensland |
Term Start6: | 12 December 2017 |
Term End6: | 12 November 2020 |
Premier6: | Annastacia Palaszczuk |
Predecessor6: | Shannon Fentiman |
Successor6: | Leanne Linard (Child Safety) Shannon Fentiman (Women) |
Office7: | Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence of Queensland |
Term Start7: | 11 December 2017 |
Term End7: | 12 November 2020 |
Premier7: | Annastacia Palaszczuk |
Predecessor7: | Shannon Fentiman |
Successor7: | Shannon Fentiman |
Office8: | Deputy Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly |
Term Start8: | 7 December 2015 |
Term End8: | 12 December 2017 |
Predecessor8: | Grace Grace |
Successor8: | Scott Stewart |
Office10: | Member of the Queensland Parliament for Bulimba |
Term Start11: | 21 March 2009 |
Term End11: | 24 March 2012 |
Predecessor11: | Pat Purcell |
Successor11: | Aaron Dillaway |
Term Start10: | 31 January 2015 |
Predecessor10: | Aaron Dillaway |
Birth Date: | 1961 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Brisbane, Queensland |
Party: | Labor |
Education: | University of Queensland |
Profession: | Speech pathologist |
Signature: | Di Farmer signature 2024.svg |
Dianne Elizabeth Farmer (born 12 February 1961) is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Education and Minister for Youth Justice of Queensland.[1] She was first elected for the seat of Bulimba to the Queensland State Parliament for the Labor Party at the 2009 Queensland election but lost her seat at the 2012 election to Aaron Dillaway of the Liberal National Party. Farmer defeated Dillaway at the 2015 election to regain Bulimba for Labor and was re-elected in 2017[2] and 2020.[3]
Farmer served as the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative assembly from 2015 to 2017, and was appointed Minister for Child Safety, Youth and Women and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence on 12 December 2017 at the start of the Second Palaszczuk Ministry.[4]
Farmer was born in Brisbane, and received a Bachelor of Speech Therapy from the University of Queensland and a Postgraduate Diploma of Administrative Studies from Kedron Park College of Advanced Education. She was a public servant and Labor Party organiser prior to her election.[5]