Education
D'Ath graduated from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Laws, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Australian National University.
politician Member of the Australian House of Representatives
D'Ath graduated from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Laws, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Australian National University.
D'Ath is currently the Attorney-General of Queensland, Minister for Justice and Minister for Training and Skills. She then became a senior industrial advocate for the Australian Workers' Union in Queensland. D'Ath was narrowly defeated by 0.5 points at the 2013 election.
Following the promotion of Mark Dreyfus as Attorney-General in February 2013, D'Ath was promoted to replace some of Dreyfus' responsibilities as Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. Her responsibilities were altered and she became Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change, Industry, and Innovation in a rearrangement of the Second Gillard Ministry on 25 March 2013. In December 2013, D'Ath was preselected to contest the state seat of Redcliffe at the 2014 by-election.
The seat of Redcliffe covered much of the same area as her former federal seat of Petrie. This increased the Labor's representation in the Queensland Parliament from seven to eight seats. After the by-election victory D'Ath was made the Shadow Minister for Education and Training, Disability Services, Science, IT and Innovation.
On 27 August 2014, D'Ath was made the Shadow Attorney-General, the Shadow Minister for Justice and the Shadow Minister for Training, Disability Services and Housing after a reshuffle prompted by the Labor victory in the Stafford by-election. Palaszczuk government
After Labor's victory in the 2015 Queensland State Election, D'Ath was sworn in as Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Minister for Training and Skills in the Palaszczuk Ministry on 16 February 2015.
She won the seat with a 17.2-point two-party swing to Labor.
She is a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland representing the seat of Redcliffe. She was previously a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the outer Brisbane seat of Petrie from 2007 to 2013.