Anna Bligh

Type: Person

Name: Anna Bligh

First reported Jun 09 2013 - Updated Jun 09 2013 - 2 reports

After Labor Loses State Election, Former Queensland Premier Anna Blight Battles Cancer

After Labor lost the last state election in 2012, former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is now battling cancer. The 52-year-old politician was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after a tumour was removed from her neck at the St Vincent Hospital in Sydney ... [Published International Business Times UK - Jun 09 2013]

Entities: Anna Bligh, Labor, Cancer, Elections, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 08 2013 - 2 reports

Mark Latham

NewsDay Kevin Rudd a lunatic - Latham Australian soldier shot in Afghanistan and Anna Bligh diagnosed with cancer

NewsDay: Kevin Rudd a lunatic - Latham, Australian soldier shot in Afghanistan and Anna Bligh diagnosed with cancer IN news you can't miss today: Kevin Rudd is called a lunatic by Mark Latham, an Australian Special Forces soldier is badly wounded in Afghanistan, ... [Published Big News Network - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Mark Latham, Kevin Rudd, Anna Bligh

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

Outpouring of support for Bligh

Emotional Bligh: remember who we are, Queenslanders Queensland Premier Anna Bligh comes close to breaking down in tears as she pledges Queenslanders will pick themseves up again after the huge disaster of the floods. ... [Published The Sydney News - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Anna Bligh, Disaster

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 3 reports

Ex-Qld premier Bligh faces cancer battle

Queensland's former premier Anna Bligh says she is staying positive as she prepares for the biggest fight of her life, after being diagnosed with cancer.Ms Bligh, 52, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after having a tumour removed from her neck ... [Published The Sydney News - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Anna Bligh, Cancer, St Vincent's Hospital, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 5 reports

Anna Bligh diagnosed with cancer

Anna Bligh will soon start treatment for cancer. Photograph: DAN PELED/AAPIMAGE The former Queensland premier Anna Bligh has been diagnosed with cancer.Bligh, 52, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma last week after having a tumour removed from a lymph ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Anna Bligh, Cancer, lymph node, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 2 reports

Former Qld premier Bligh has cancer (AAP)

Former Queensland premier Anna Bligh has been diagnosed with cancer. ... [Published Yahoo! News Australia - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Anna Bligh, Cancer

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 2 reports

Budget today, $50,000-a-year payrise next?

Topics: queensland government, state budget 2013Have your say »Related Items» Budget: Toowoomba scores $28 million for CBD road» Swan attacks Newman Govt ahead of State Budget» Health, education and regional Qld the focus of State Budget» Budget windfall: ... [Published Ipswich Satellite - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: Toowoomba, Trevor Watts, Anna Bligh, Tim Nicholls

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 30 2013 - 2 reports

Ex-minister insists suing IBM too risky

FORMER Queensland health minister Paul Lucas has failed to provide evidence showing the state was better off by not suing IBM over the health payroll fiasco. Mr Lucas, also a former deputy premier and a qualified solicitor, appeared on Thursday as the ... [Published Adelaide Now - May 30 2013]

Entities: Paul Lucas, IBM Corp, Robert Schwarten, Peter Flanagan

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 27 2013 - 8 reports

Minister defends QLD Health payroll decisions

Former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and Public Works Minister Robert Schwarten have defended the State Government’s decision not to terminate its contract with IBM, despite the payroll replacement project it was working on being significantly over time ... [Published IT News Australia - May 27 2013]

Entities: Robert Schwarten, Anna Bligh, IBM Corp

First reported May 26 2013 - Updated May 27 2013 - 8 reports

Bligh defends her Qld payroll decision (AAP)

Former premier Anna Bligh has defended her decision not to sue IBM over the disastrous Queensland Health payroll system. ... [Published Yahoo! News Australia - May 27 2013]

Entities: Anna Bligh, Queensland Health, IBM Corp

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 27 2013 - 2 reports

Former premier Anna Bligh fronts Qld Health payroll inquiry

Former premier Anna Bligh has testified at the Queensland Health payroll inquiry this morning.The inquiry is investigating how IBM secured a contract to upgrade Queensland Health's payroll system and why it failed, costing taxpayers more than $1 bill ... [Published ABC Online - May 27 2013]

Entities: Anna Bligh, IBM Corp, Robert Schwarten, Deponent

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Former Rocky MP to face Health Payroll inquiry next week

Topics: anna bligh, paul lucas, payroll inquiry, queensland health, robert schwartenHave your say »Related Items» Queensland Health payroll inquiry beginsRobert Schwarten says his department will overhaul CorpTech.FORMER Rockhampton MP and former premier ... [Published NewsMail - May 23 2013]

Entities: Robert Schwarten, Paul Lucas, Anna Bligh, Queensland Health

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...Andrew Fraser, former deputy premier of Queensland, said Ms Bligh is "capable of overcoming adversity and doing so with good humour and optimism."

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