Ignazia Graziella Grace, usually known as Grace Grace (born 12 August 1958) is an Australian politician, representing the electoral district of Brisbane Central in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since the October 2007 by-election.[1] She is a member of the Australian Labor Party.
She was born Ignazia Graziella Farfaglia[2] in Brisbane, Queensland, the daughter of an Italian migrant cane cutter. She was an industrial relations advisor in the government of Prime Minister Paul Keating, until 1995 when she was elected as assistant general secretary, and in 2000 the first female general secretary, of the Queensland Council of Unions.[3] "Grace" is an Anglicised version of "Graziella" and also her husband's surname.
Grace was elected to the Legislative Assembly following the resignation of Premier Peter Beattie. The Coalition did not field a candidate. However, Labor held it with a 14.8 percent two-party majority, meaning that any Coalition candidate would have faced nearly impossible odds in any event. She won the seat in her own right in the 2009 state election, despite an 8.4 percent swing to the newly merged Liberal National Party.