Background
Flegg was born in Sydney and was a general practitioner before entering politics.
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Flegg was born in Sydney and was a general practitioner before entering politics.
He was the leader of the state Liberal Party from 2006 to 2007 and served as Minister for Housing and Public Works in the Newman government from April to November 2012. At the 1993 federal election he contested the seat of Dickson which was ultimately delayed to a supplementary election due to the death of a candidate, but was defeated by the Labor candidate, Michael Lavarch. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly at the 2004 state election, replacing former Liberal leader David Watson in the safe Liberal seat of Moggill.
He was immediately elected deputy leader of the Liberal Party upon his election, and succeeded Bob Quinn as leader in 2006.
Nicholls was unable to gain sufficient support to oust Flegg in a closely divided caucus, but following ongoing tension, Flegg resigned as leader on 4 December 2007 and was succeeded by compromise candidate Mark McArdle. Flegg was not part of the initial shadow ministry following the merger of the Liberal Party and National Party to form the Liberal National Party in 2008, but was subsequently appointed Shadow Minister for Education in 2009.
In October 2014, the Lecture Notes in Physics State Executive refused to support Doctor Flegg"s party preselection as a candidate for the January 2015 election, instead choosing to replace him with former American Medical Association President Doctor Christian Rowan. He has four sons, one of whom, Jonathon Flegg, ran unsuccessfully for the New South Wales beachside seat of Coogee in 2007.
He had only been Liberal leader for a number of days when then-Premier Peter Beattie called the 2006 state election, which the conservative parties lost decisively.
He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 2004 to 2015, representing the electorate of Moggill in south-western Brisbane for the Liberal Party of Australia and its successor the Liberal National Party. He remained an Lecture Notes in Physics Member of Parliament until the January 2015 election when he did not re-contest his seat.