Cameron Dick was elected to the Queensland Parliament as the Member for Greenslopes in March 2009.

He was asked by Premier Anna Bligh to serve in the Cabinet as Queensland's Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations immediately following his election - a rare honour for a first-term Member of Parliament.

As the state's Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations, Cameron has had the privilege of being responsible for leading the government's significant reform program in the justice portfolio.

In his first 12 months in Parliament, he led the debate on 17 pieces of legislation relating to various matters such as phone-tapping, civil dispute resolution, organised crime and the recovery of money from fine defaulters.

In 2009, he introduced legislation to establish the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT), one of the most significant reforms to the state's civil justice system in 50 years.

In early 2010, he led the parliamentary debate to decriminalise altruistic surrogacy in Queensland - the last state in Australia where altruistic surrogacy was a crime.

In his capacity as Minister for Industrial Relations, Cameron has been committed to protecting the rights of working Queenslanders.

Since his appointment, he has launched the ‘Zero Harm at Work' program to help reduce the rate of injury and death in Queensland workplaces and been responsible for government legislation which will ensure the ongoing stability of Queensland's workers' compensation scheme.

Cameron's passion for the law and community service started at a young age and has been developed during a varied career that has involved work as both a solicitor and barrister, overseas study, volunteering and public service roles.

In the mid-1990s, Cameron worked for three years as an international development volunteer in the small South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu and at the age of 27, he was appointed the acting Attorney-General of Tuvalu for one year.

Following his time in Tuvalu, Cameron read international law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was awarded a Master of Law degree from Cambridge University.