Teresa Harding: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

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| honorific-prefix = [[City of Ipswich|Councillor]]

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| office1 = 51st [[List of mayors of Ipswich|Mayor of Ipswich]]

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| termstart1 = 28 March 2020

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| predecessor1 = Andrew Antoniolli

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| birth_name = Teresa Jane Harding<ref name="ecq"/>

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| party = [[Liberal National Party of Queensland|Liberal National]] (since 2012)<ref name="ecq">{{cite web |title=TERESA JANE HARDING |url=https://event.elections.qld.gov.au/Candidate/CandidateDetail?EventID=593&EventType=2&ContestID=0&BoundaryID=0&LGAID=67&ID=48023 |publisher=Electoral Commission of Queensland}}</ref>

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'''Teresa Jane Harding''' is an Australian politician who has served as [[List of mayors of Ipswich|mayor of Ipswich]] since 2020.

Harding was selected by the [[Liberal National Party of Queensland|Liberal National Party]] (LNP) to contest the [[division of Blair]] at the [[2013 Australian federal election|2013 federal election]]. She was unsuccessful, with incumbent [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] MP [[Shayne Neumann]] re-elected with a 1.02% [[two-party-preferred]] swing towards him.<ref>[http://results.aec.gov.au/17496/Website/HouseDivisionFirstPrefs-17496-304.htm 2013 results for Blair], AEC.</ref>

She re-contested Blair for the LNP in [[2016 Australian federal election|2016]], and again was unsuccessful with a 3.62% two-party-preferred swing away from her.<ref>[http://results.aec.gov.au/20499/Website/HouseDivisionPage-20499-304.htm Blair, QLD], Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.</ref>

At the [[2020 Ipswich City Council election|2020 Queensland local government elections]], Harding contested the mayoralty of [[City of Ipswich|Ipswich City Council]] following more than a year of the council being under administration.<ref>{{cite web |title=Allegations of corruption related to the Ipswich City Council (Operation Windage) |url=https://www.ccc.qld.gov.au/corruption/outcome/allegations-corruption-related-ipswich-city-council-operation-windage#:~:text=On%2014%20August%202018%20the,and%20an%20administrator%20was%20appointed. |publisher=Crime and Corruption Commission Queensland}}</ref> She was elected with 62.98% of the vote after preferences, becoming the first non-Labor aligned Ipswich mayor in 50 years.<ref name="aligned">{{cite web |title=First non-Labor-aligned mayor in 50 years likely in Ipswich |date=29 March 2020 |url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/first-non-labor-aligned-mayor-in-50-years-likely-in-ipswich-20200329-p54ezl.html |publisher=Brisbane Times}}</ref>

Harding was re-elected in [[2024 Ipswich City Council election|2024]].

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