Naomi Wilson

{{Short description|Australian politician (born 1940)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|OAM}} | constituency_AM = Mulgrave | assembly = Queensland Legislative | term_start = 15 July 1995 | term_end = 13 June 1998 | predecessor = Warren Pitt | successor = Charles Rappolt | office2 = Queensland Minister for Community Services, Youth and Families | term_start2 = February 1998 | term_end2 = June 1998 | successor2 = Anna Bligh | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|1|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Arusha, Tanganyika, East Africa | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = | party = National Party | other_party = | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Teacher, Politician | relations = }}

'''Naomi Kate Wynn Wilson''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} (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.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=3927040130|accessdate= 11 February 2015}}</ref>

==Family== Wilson, who was born in Arusha in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), is the daughter<ref name="SMH1947">{{cite news|title=NEW BISHOP APPOINTED |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date= 23 July 1947 | page =4 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27901970 }}</ref> of the Welsh Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika,<ref name="ADEB"/> William (Bill) Wynn Jones,<ref name="ADEB">{{cite web |title=Entry for 'WYNN JONES, WILLIAM (BILL) (1900 - 1950)', Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography|url=https://sites.google.com/view/australian-dictionary-of-evang/w-z/wynn-jones-william-bill-1900-1950|access-date=25 April 2022 |publisher=Evangelical History Association}}</ref> and of Ruth L. Minton Taylor.<ref name="ADEB"/><ref name="SMH1947" />

Her paternal grandfather Matthew Tertius Jones (1853 - 1912) was a partner of the Welsh international chartered shipbrokerage M. Jones and Bro. (1856 - 1942) of Swansea Docks<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27514|page=191|date=9 January 1903}}</ref><ref name="TWM 031912">''The Western Mail'', 02 March 1912, p. 3</ref> that had been founded by her 2nd-great grandfather Matthew Jones Senior (1800 - 1867).<ref name="1914 Who's Who in Business">{{cite web|title=Entry for M. Jones and Bro., Steamship Agents, 1914 Who's Who in Business|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1914_Who's_Who_in_Business:_Company_J }}</ref>

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.<ref name="bio"/> Wilson entered state parliament at the 1995 state election by defeating incumbent Labor Party MP Warren Pitt for the seat of Mulgrave.<ref>{{cite web | title=1995 Queensland election | publisher=Psephos | url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/states/qld/qld-95.txt}}</ref> 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.<ref name="bio"/> Wilson held this position until her defeat the following June at the 1998 state election, where she finished in third place behind Labor's Warren Pitt and victorious One Nation candidate Charles Rappolt.<ref>{{cite web | title=1998 Queensland election | publisher=Psephos | url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/states/qld/qld-98.txt}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web | title=Mulgrave By-election | publisher=Electoral Commission of Queensland | url=http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/data/portal/00000005/content/45531001068527911437.pdf | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090713085736/http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/data/portal/00000005/content/45531001068527911437.pdf | archivedate=13 July 2009 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | title=2001 State General Election - Cairns - District Summary | publisher=Electoral Commission of Queensland | url=http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=198&show=election.district.detail&id=15 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906101113/https://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=198&show=election.district.detail&id=15 | archivedate=6 September 2008 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Ancestry== {{ahnentafel |collapsed=yes |align=center |boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; |boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; |boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; |boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; |boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe; |1= 1. '''Naomi Wilson''' |2= 2. The Rt. Rev. William Wynn Jones (brother of The Rev. Matthew Kenneth Jones MBE) |3= 3. Ruth L. Minton Taylor |4= 4. Matthew Tertius Jones (elder brother of Edwin Price Jones (1855 - 1924), Vice-Consul for Chile) |8= 8. Matthew Jones Junior (1828 - 1864) (elder brother of Lieutenant-Colonel William Matthew Jones VD) |9= 9. Jane Richards (1827 - 1856) |16= 16. Matthew Jones Senior (1800 - 1867) of Glamorgan |17= 17. Sarah Baugh (1802 - 1876) |14= 14. Henry Dobson, Premier of Tasmania |28= 28. John Dobson of Hobart, previously of Gateshead |29= 29. Kate Willis (daughter of Richard Willis of the Tasmanian Legislative Council) }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-qld}} {{s-bef|before= Warren Pitt}} {{s-ttl |title= Member for Mulgrave|years=1995–1998}} {{s-aft|after=Charles Rappolt}} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Naomi}} Category:1940 births Category:Living people Category:National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Category:Women members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Category:Tanzanian emigrants to Australia Category:People from Arusha Region Category:Schoolteachers from Queensland Category:Jones family (Glamorgan Shipping Magnates)