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Dr Tracey Arklay is a research fellow with the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. She has taught and written on public policy, political biography, and state politics. She co-authored the official history of the Queensland Parliament, The Ayes have it, published in 2010 by ANU press, and has recently written on the policy advisory capacity in the Defence Department with Anne Tiernan and Hugh White. She is currently researching Queensland's disaster management arrangements, in collaboration with Queensland’s Department of Community Safety.