[citation needed] Her father arrived first and cut cane in north Queensland to pay for her mother's fare to come over from Sicily.

[citation needed] Grace's father Salvatore suffered a serious workplace injury at a tannery that rendered him unable to work, which inspired her later involvement in the union movement.

[5][6][7] New Farm and Fortitude Valley, the main centres for Brisbane's LGBTIQ+ community, are both in her electorate and she has built close ties with gay rights organisations.

[8] Later as an MP and minister in the Palaszczuk Government she supported further reforms including legalising same-sex adoptions;[9] equalisation of the age of consent in Queensland;[10] a Queensland Government apology to people convicted of homosexual offences before homosexuality was legalised in 1990 and passing legislation to allow for those historic convictions to be expunged;[11][12][13][14] a ban on gay conversion therapies;[15] and passing legislation to modernise birth certificates to better recognise trans and gender-diverse Queenslanders, including allowing people to have their gender accurately documented without undergoing sexual reassignment surgery.

[39][40] In 2018 Grace was the first minister in the country to advocate for a national ban on the use, supply, importation, and manufacture of engineered stone to protect workers from silica and dust diseases.

[47][48] In 2023 Grace announced a $35 million investment to provide vending machines with free period products to any Queensland state school that wanted one.

In December 2023 the Miles Government commissioned an independent review into Games venue infrastructure, led by former Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk.

The Review made 30 recommendations, including a proposal to build 'greenfield' 55,000-seat stadium in Victoria Park in Brisbane with an estimated $3.4 billion cost.

Grace said of the proposal: "Victoria Park is highly-valued by the community, and we have no plans to spend billions of dollars to encroach into that green space.