Queensland Labor backbencher Milton Dick will be formally offered the role of Speaker of the House of Representatives when federal parliament resumes next week.
Queensland Labor backbencher Milton Dick has been endorsed by the Labor caucus to become Speaker of the House of Representatives when federal parliament resumes next week.
Mr Dick, the former Queensland Labor state secretary who was elected to federal parliament for the western Brisbane seat of Oxley in 2016, will become Queensland’s third speaker since World War II.
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