Governance and Politics
- Chris Bombolas – Class of 1978 – Labor MLA for Chatsworth and Former Channel 9 sports presenter and reporter
- Mal Colston – Class of 1955 – Australian Labor Party senator representing Queensland 1975-1999
- Manfred Cross – Federal member for Brisbane in the House of Representatives (1961–75, 1980–90)
- Jack Dempsey – Class of 1984 – Liberal National MLA for Bundaberg
- George Georges – Class of 1939 – Class of 1939 – Labor senator
- Bill Hayden – Class of 1949 – 21st Governor-General of Australia and Foreign Affairs Minister 1983-88
- Sir Leo Hielscher AC – Class of 1941 – past Head of Queensland Treasury, Head of QIC and QIDC
- John-Paul Langbroek – Sub-Senior Class of 1978 – Liberal National MLA for Surfers Paradise
- Bill O'Chee – Class of 1982 – National Party Senator
- Murray Watt – Class of 1989 – Labor MLA for Everton
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Famous quotes containing the words governance and/or politics:
“He yaf me al the bridel in myn hand,
To han the governance of hous and land,
And of his tonge and his hand also;”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“The word “revolution” itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the “revolution” of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the “revolving door” of a politics which has “liberated” women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)