Queensland Labor MP Resigns ‘With Heaviest of Hearts’ Due to Cancer

Queensland Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Sport and Duncan Pegg announces he has cancer and will be taking leave to fight it during Question Time at Parliament House in Brisbane on Nov. 26, 2019. AAP Image/Glenn Hunt

Queensland MP Duncan Pegg has announced that he is resigning from state politics to focus on his health and treatment for cancer.

The member for Stretton gave his final speech in Parliament on Thursday, where he said that it was “with the heaviest of hearts” that he will resign in the coming weeks.