HALL OF FAME

Mrs Deborah Frecklington MP (nee Stiller)

2019 Inductee

Student 1984 - 1988

Mrs Deborah (Deb) Frecklington MP grew up at Gulugaba in South-west Queensland. Mrs Frecklington attended Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School from 1984 to 1988 as a boarder and was awarded the Memorial Prize for Service to the Boarding House in her final year.

Mrs Frecklington graduated from the University of Southern Queensland with a Business degree and holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Queensland University of Technology.

As a partner of Kelly & Frecklngton Solicitors, Mrs Frecklington concentrated on family and property law, also working multi-generational farming businesses undertaking rural succession planning.

Mrs Frecklington was elected to State Parliament in 2012 as the Member for Nanango. She was appointed Assistant Minister for Finance, Administration and Regulatory Reform in 2012, with the major task of implementing the former LNP Government’s red tape reduction plan.

In 2014, Mr Frecklington was appointed to the position of Assistant Minister to the Premier with oversight for the G20 in Queensland. She was re-elected for a second term in January 2015 and worked in the role as Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

Mrs Frecklington was elected to the position of Deputy Leader of the LNP in May 2016 and appointed to the role of Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, State Development and Trade and Investment.

In November 2017, Mrs Frecklington was re-elected for a third term and took over the leadership of the LNP the following month.

Mrs Frecklington lives in Kingaroy in the South Burnett with her husband, Jason, and three daughters.