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Anthony Joseph Lynham (born 12 April 1960) is an Australian politician who is a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland representing the electoral district of Stafford. He is currently the Queensland Minister for State Development and Minister for Natural Resources and Mines. Lynham was a oral and maxillofacial surgeon.
Dental and Medical career
Lynham is a former maxillofacial surgeon who was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. He also was a member of the hospital trauma team. He graduated in Dentistry from University of Queensland and Medicine from Newcastle University. He holds a surgical fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh in the general stream. Further training was completed in Switzerland. One of his roles was the training of maxillofacial surgeons both at the college and hospital level. He is an active researcher and has published regularly. He is an associate professor at the University of Queensland and an adjunct professor at the Queensland University of Technology.
Political career
Lynham was first elected on 19 July 2014 at the Stafford by-election, which resulted from the resignation of former member Chris Davis, defeating the LNP candidate Bob Andersen with a 62 percent two-party vote from a 19-point two-party-preferred swing. Lynham then entered the Shadow Cabinet.
Palaszczuk government
On 16 February 2015, he was sworn in as Minister for State Development and Minister for Natural Resources and Mines in the Palaszczuk Ministry.