Amanda Stoker to replace Amanda Camm as child safety and DV minister
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Member for Oodgeroo Amanda Stoker has been appointed to the child safety and domestic and family violence, and families, seniors and disability services portfolios. (ABC News: James Kelly)
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Amanda Stoker will be Queensland's new child safety and family and domestic violence minister.
Embattled former child safety minister Amanda Camm stepped down from the portfolio this week.
Ms Stoker was formerly the assistant minister for finance, trade, employment and training.
Oodgeroo MP Amanda Stoker will replace Amanda Camm as child safety and domestic violence minister, in the first major change to the government's ministry since coming into power two years ago.
She will also take on Ms Camm's former portfolios of families, seniors and disability services.
Ms Camm advised the premier she would be standing down on Thursday, saying it was her decision.
It's the first movement in the frontbench since David Crisafulli came to power in 2024.
Ms Stoker was previously the federal senator for Queensland. (ABC News: Ian Cutmore)
Ms Camm returned from six weeks' sick leave just a fortnight ago, after undergoing "major surgery".
Ms Stoker was assistant minister for finance, trade, employment and training, and a federal senator for Queensland from 2018 to 2022.
Amanda Camm has been under significant pressure in her portfolios for months. (ABC News)
The Whitsunday MP had faced months of intense scrutiny, including over children in residential care sleeping on the floor of child safety offices, and cuts to the DFV prevention sector in the latest state budget.
She said she had realised her recovery was ongoing, and "would not be aided by the position of minister, the ongoing stresses associated with that role and the workload".
She did not commit to recontesting her seat in the next election.
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