About this episode
Annastacia Palaszczuk discusses her journey as a premier, personal challenges, and political issues in an interview with Tom McIlroy.
When Annastacia Palaszczuk led a Labor opposition to win government in the 2015 Queensland election, she was labelled an ‘accidental premier’. She later became a three-term premier who ended on her own terms. In conversation with political editor Tom McIlroy, she speaks about how her resilience was formed by profound personal loss through miscarriage and IVF treatments – which she describes in her new memoir. Palaszczuk also discusses how ‘heartbreaking’ it is to watch David Crisafulli’s government reverse her renewable energy policies and attributes Pauline Hanson’s long political career to being ‘relatable’. Note: This interview was recorded before police charged Palaszczuk’s partner, Vahid Reza Adib, with rape, sexual assault and deprivation of liberty. Adib was granted police bail and will face court at a later date. He made no comment outside the police station on Friday afternoon
People in this episode
Host: Tom McIlroy
Guest: Annastacia Palaszczuk
Topics covered
- resilience
- politics
- renewable energy
- personal loss
- memoir
Keywords
- Annastacia Palaszczuk
- resilience
- Queensland election
- renewable energy policies
- memoir
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Labor, Queensland
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