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Cameron Dick

The Honourable
Cameron Dick
MP
Minister for Health of Queensland
Assumed office
16 February 2015
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk
Preceded by Lawrence Springborg
Minister for Ambulance Services of Queensland
Assumed office
16 February 2015
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk
Minister for Industrial Relations of Queensland
In office
26 March 2009 – 26 March 2012
Premier Anna Bligh
Preceded by John Mickel
Succeeded by Office abolished
Minister for Education of Queensland
In office
21 February 2011 – 26 March 2012
Premier Anna Bligh
Preceded by Geoff Wilson
Succeeded by John-Paul Langbroek
Attorney-General of Queensland
In office
26 March 2009 – 21 February 2011
Premier Anna Bligh
Preceded by Kerry Shine
Succeeded by Paul Lucas
Member of the Queensland Parliament for Greenslopes
In office
21 March 2009 – 24 March 2012
Preceded by Gary Fenlon
Succeeded by Ian Kaye
Member of the Queensland Parliament for Woodridge
Assumed office
31 January 2015
Preceded by Desley Scott
Personal details
Born Brisbane, Queensland
Political party Australian Labor Party
Alma mater Trinity Hall, Cambridge
University of Queensland
Profession Barrister

Cameron Robert Dick is an Australian politician and member of the Australian Labor Party. He is the Minister for Health and Minister for Ambulance Services in the Palaszczuk Ministry and a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Woodridge. Previously he was Attorney-General, Minister for Education and Minister for Industrial Relations in the Bligh government representing the electorate of Greenslopes.

Dick's family arrived in Queensland from Scotland in 1862 aboard the sailing ship Conway. His father, a veteran of the Second World War serving in the Royal Australian Navy (1941–1945), was a butcher and later an owner and operator of taxi cabs. His mother was a nurse.

He grew up in the suburb of Holland Park and attended a local primary school, Marshall Road State School.

He is the brother of Milton Dick, member of the Australian House of Representatives for Oxley and former Brisbane City Council Labor leader.

Dick was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School, formerly known as the Church of England Grammar School. He studied at the University of Queensland, and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws, and later, a Bachelor of Arts. He gained a Master of Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

After undertaking articles of clerkship at Brisbane law firm Goss Downey Carne, he was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia.


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