Jarrod Bleijie has called the Sunshine Coast home for more than 30 years. Jarrod and his wife Sally have grown up on the Sunshine Coast. They are now raising three children Taylor, Madison and Jasper with their rescue dog Bobo. He is a passionate local and believes Queensland’s best days are ahead of it.

Jarrod was born in Griffith, NSW to Pieter, a fuel tank truck driver and Christine, a full time Mum.

At age 7 he and his family packed up and moved to the Sunshine Coast with his Uncle Lindsay Cooper (Coop) who owned and operated the Ettamogah Pub (Aussie World) at Palmview.

Jarrod attended Caloundra State School and Caloundra State High School and served as High School Captain. When he was young, his parents were in small business and owned and operated a camping store in Caloundra.

It was at this young age Jarrod got a sense of the values of hard work and personal responsibility which he saw exhibited every day in his parents, values which he holds dear to this day and which in part inspired him to run for public office.

During school, Jarrod worked between his parents camping store and KFC. While studying law at university, he continued to work at KFC and also had some early morning starts at a chicken abattoir.

He graduated from Caloundra State High, and then the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Laws, working locally as a lawyer to provide for his young family and specialising in commercial and property law.

Jarrod was then elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the Member for Kawana at the 2009 State Election, aged 27, and since then has held a number of Ministerial and Shadow Ministerial portfolios.

In the LNP Government from 2012 to 2015, Jarrod served as Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, overseeing the introduction of tough new laws to combat the rising threat of criminal motorcycle gangs around Queensland. At the time, these laws were often referred to as the toughest in the country. He is also known for championing the construction of the $1.8 billion Sunshine Coast University Hospital which he proudly turned the sod on in 2012.

Following the 2024 state election, Jarrod was appointed as Deputy Premier of Queensland, Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning, and Minister for Industrial Relations in the Crisafulli LNP Government.