Lord Mayor of Brisbane
Sallyanne Atkinson was elected to the Lord Mayoralty in 1985, after defeating the ALP candidate Roy Harvey. She became the first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane, as well as the first from the Liberal Party.
While popular with the media, Atkinson quickly began to receive criticism from the public for her expensive overseas trips, extravagant mayoral salary, and costly engineering projects.
She was eventually defeated in 1991 in a narrow upset election win by the virtually unknown Jim Soorley, who received preferences from the Greens candidate Drew Hutton. This result was unexpected, as Atkinson was perceived to be very popular at the time. As a result, it took Atkinson many weeks to actually accept the election results, and hand the mayoralty over to Soorley.
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