Who is behind Nurses Professional Association of Queensland?

Graeme Haycroft

The Nurses Professional Association of Queensland was founded by Graeme Haycroft. [Link]

Graeme Haycroft is a former labour-hire firm operator who established non-union construction sites in Queensland. [Link]

He has a long history with the Liberal National Party and once headed up the Liberal-National Party’s Industrial Relations Committee. [Link]

Haycroft also has a long history with the HR Nicholls Society, an anti-union, anti-worker, pro-big business think tank with deep ties to the Liberal Party.

He once ran a company which helped business move workers off awards and collective agreements and on to “AWAs”, individual agreements that stripped back workers’ pay and conditions.

Haycroft’s company was reported to have targeted vulnerable workers who were low-skilled, low-paid and often had poor English. His company was sanctioned by the Office of the Employment Advocate after a complaint from a worker. [Link]

Aenghas Hopkinson-Pearson

Aenghas Hopkinson-Pearson is the secretary of NPAQ. [Link]

Aenghas Hopkinson-Pearson was Treasurer of the Liberal National Party’s election campaign in the seat of Moggill for the 2020 Queensland State election campaign. Liberal-National Party politician and Member of Parliament Christian Rowan personally thanked Hopkinson-Pearson in Parliament for his support for the LNP. [Link – PDF]

Jack McGuire

Jack McGuire is the former assistant secretary of NPAQ, and current secretary of NPAQ’s associated entity Teachers Professional Association of Queensland (TPAQ). [Link] He was formerly president of the Queensland University of Technology Liberal National Club. [Link]