December is a busy time in anyone’s social calendar. From end-of-year catchups, to family gatherings and work Christmas parties, it can be hard to get to everything.

Being second-in-charge of a month-old Queensland government with responsibility for state development, infrastructure, planning and industrial relations would seemingly compound this.

But among his many engagements, Jarrod Bleijie, also the former Newman government attorney-general, found time for the December 6 “Christmas celebration” of Cedric Hampson Chambers.

Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie, CFMEU Inquiry Commissioner Stuart Wood KC, and Premier David Crisafulli. Credit: Michael Howard

Also among the attendees, said to have numbered more than 100, was the barrister group’s top-billed member and later-to-be

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