Rosa Lee Long

Rosa Theresa Lee Long is a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly representing the electorate Tablelands in Northern Queensland, Australia. Lee Long is currently serving a third consecutive term in office after being re-elected at the 2006 Queensland general elections, and is the leader [Citation
title = Queensland Parliament - FAQ
url=http://parliament.qld.gov.au/view/education/education.asp?area=FAQ&LIndex=1&SubArea=FAQ
accessdate = 2008-06-13 .] (and only member) of the One Nation Party in Queensland's parliament, in addition to being that party's longest serving member.

Personal

Lee Long was born in Atherton, Queensland, and has three daughtersCitation
title = Queensland Parliament House - Member Information - Rosa Lee Long
url=http://parliament.qld.gov.au/view/legislativeAssembly/documents/memberBio/Lee%20LongRosa.htm
accessdate = 2008-06-13 ] . Lee Long is a widow, her late husband was of Chinese descentcite hansard | url=http://parliament.qld.gov.au/view/legislativeAssembly/documents/memberBio/InauguralSpeech/LeeLong.pdf | house=Queensland Legislative Assembly | date= 2001-05-02 | page=617 ] , a fact that has aroused considerable interest given the One Nation Party's strong anti-immigration stance [Citation
last=Steketee
first=Mike
author-link=Mike Steketee
title=Pauline Hanson’s legacy
newspaper=The Australian
date=September 8, 2006
url=http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/yoursay/index.php/theaustralian/comments/pauline_hansons_legacy/desc/P0/ ] .

Before Parliament

Before entering parliament, Lee Long worked as a grazier, a public servant, and owned a small business.

Parliamentary career

Lee Long was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 2001 to represent the seat of Tablelands. Tablelands had before 1998 been a safe seat for the National Party, but fell at the 1998 election to Shaun Nelson of the One Nation Party. Lee Long was a campaign worker for Nelson during this election. Nelson subsequently left the party in 1999 amid internal tensions, and recontested the seat at the 2001 election as an independent, losing out to Lee Long. By this point, support for the One Nation party had sharply declined from the party's high point, and Lee Long was one of only three One Nation MPs in the Legislative Assembly.

In her inaugural address to parliament, Lee Long attacked globalisation and the Government's policy of privatisation, blaming them for a decline in the agricultural and mining industries in her electorate.

She has been a member of the Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee since October 11, 2006, and a member of the Estimates Committee in both 2006 and 2008. She has also previously served on the Members' Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee from March 18, 2004 to August 15, 2006, the Scrutiny of Legislation Committee (May 3, 2001 - January 13, 2004), and the Select Committee on Travelsafe (May 2, 2001 to January 13, 2004).

Political views

Despite the disintegration of the One Nation Party and Pauline Hanson's departure to form a new party, Pauline's United Australia Party, Lee Long in a television interview leading up to that election, stated that she still agreed with Hanson's policies, saying "Pauline Hanson was right back then, she's right now, and we have to continue the fight" [cite news
last = Burkman
first = Karen
title = September Poll
publisher = ABC News (Stateline QLD)
date = 2006-09-01
url = http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/qld/content/2006/s1730208.htm…
accessdate = 2008-06-13 ] .

Elections contested

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External links

* [http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/legislativeAssembly/documents/memberBio/Lee%20LongRosa.htm Lee Long's profile]

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