Member for Cooper, Queensland Government
Jonty has a 20+ year career history in making sure people can navigate government and social services, ensuring they have a voice and can participate in the decisions made for them and about them.
Jonty’s specialisation is criminology – following the homicides of her sister and father she focused her career towards community safety and victims’ rights. In 2000, Jonty joined the Queensland Homicide Victims’ Support Group and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in 2007, where she was awarded in 2009 as Young Australian of the Year.
Jonty’s most recent career prior to politics was working within the Department of Justice and Attorney General in the area of victims’ rights and support. She has a Master of Criminology and Criminal Justice from Griffith University,has worked on Ministerial taskforces, was appointed to Queensland’s inaugural Sentencing Advisory Council and has continued to work and support government and community organisations with evidence-based strategies that reduce crime in the long-term, and uplifting the voices of victims throughout the criminal justice process.
In 2020 Jonty was elected to the Queensland Parliament, and appointed to the Legal Affairs and Safety Committee, and was appointed Deputy Chair of Queensland’s Select Inquiry into Youth Justice and Victims Support.
Along with her partner Matt, Jonty continues to raise her daughter and three stepdaughters. She is a lover of the great outdoors and is regularly trekking through Brisbane’s hiking trails in addition to taking on the big walks including Kokoda and Mount Kilimanjaro.
