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Laurel Power

Australian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ16185531 ↗
Source-derived summary

Laurel Jean Power (born 7 December 1953) is a former Australian politician.

She was born at Augathella and worked as a teacher before entering politics. A member of the Labor Party, she was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Mansfield in 1989. She served as temporary chairman of committees from 1992 to 1995, when she was defeated by a Liberal candidate.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Laurel Power” as australian politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Laurel, Power and Australian.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1989, 1992, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-12-07. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Laurel, Power and Australian providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Laurel Power”, the useful work is to connect “australian politician” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16185531. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1953, 1989, 1992 and 1995.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Laurel Power” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.