Political Career
In 2001 she defeated Santo Santoro in the normally safe Liberal seat of Clayfield in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. She lost the seat, the most marginal in Queensland, at the 2006 Queensland Election.
She was briefly Minister for Indigenous Affairs in the government of Peter Beattie, but resigned over the so-called "Winegate" affair. A bottle of wine was taken aboard a government jet travelling to a "dry" indigenous community in North Queensland. Two of Liddy Clark's staff were moved from their jobs over the affair and after an independent inquiry Liddy Clark was cleared of any wrongdoing.
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