Grace Grace Speech at the Reception for Italian Week with Francesco Capecchi

The Festa Della Repubblicca or Italian National Day. Produced by Alessandro Sorbello for the Italian Consulate for Queensland and Northern Territory. Dr Francesco Capecchi, Consul of Italy for Queensland and Northern Territory. Official reception June 2008 Brisbane QUT Art Museum Introducing The Honarable Grace Grace.

Grace Grace is an Australian politician, representing the Australian Labor Party in Brisbane Central since the October 2007 by-election.

She was born Ignazia Farfaglia 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.