Vincent Bernard Joseph Lesina (1 November 1869 – 14 July 1955)[1] was a journalist and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
[1] At the 1899 Queensland colonial elections, Lesina, for the Labour Party, defeated the sitting member, John Cross, for the seat of Clermont.
Described as a 'nervy, restless dark little man of passing good looks', Joe Lesina was a speaker possessed of considerable wit, biting sarcasm and devastating invective, together with a capacity for detailed research and factual inventiveness.
He never rose to any prominence in the Labour Party and his only notable contribution to reform was the adaption of the abolition of capital punishment at the Labor-in-Politics Convention in 1910 which was finally enacted in 1922.
His expulsion from the party in 1909 arose over a disagreement with David Bowman on the liquor trade and certain other aspects of nationalization.