Yvonne Chapman (politician)

Yvonne Ann Chapman (20 January 1940 – 27 October 2024) was an Australian politician with the National Party.

She was a Queensland Member of Parliament from 1983 until 1989[1] where she was for a time Minister for Family Services in the Bjelke-Petersen Government and Minister for Transport and Ethnic Affairs in the Cooper Government, and Mayor of the Shire of Pine Rivers (1994–2008).

[2] Chapman contested the 1994 mayoral election against sitting Shire Chairman Rob Akers and 4 others.

This was the second time Chapman had defeated Rob Akers at a significant election, having taken the Queensland Parliamentary seat of Pine Rivers from him in 1983.

Chapman established herself as a conservative persona, maintaining Pine Rivers to be a 'clean' shire.