Hon. Con Sciacca AO | Founding and Managing Partner
The Honourable Con Sciacca AO is the founding partner of the firm, its current Managing Partner and the partner in charge of the Corporate, Commercial and Property Group.
Under his stewardship, Sciaccas Lawyers and Consultants has grown from its humble beginnings to a successful, second tier law firm. The key to the firm's success lies in its ability to build long-term business relationships with many clients by consistently providing quality and cost-effective legal advice without the overheads of the big law firms.
Mr Sciacca's commitment to his clients is reflective of his life-long service to the Australian community - an ethic of providing ordinary Australians with access to social justice. Many of his staff have worked with him from the beginning of his legal and political career. Low staff turnover and a culture of teamwork has been the firm's strategy for attracting and retaining highly skilled lawyers who can offer clients high quality affordable legal advice.
Mr Sciacca established his law firm some 35 years ago on the same day he was admitted to practice in Queensland. At the outset of his career, he specialised in commercial law. In 1987, he was elected to the Australian Parliament and served under Prime Ministers Hawke and Keating as Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister assisting the Treasurer for Superannuation. During this period, Mr Sciacca conducted the Australia Remembers program to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the end of World War II.
In the 1996 federal election, Mr Sciacca was defeated by a margin of less than 0.5% in the anti-Labor swing that wiped out all but two ALP Members in Queensland. He was re-elected in October 1998 and appointed Shadow Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs under Kim Beazley; a position he held until the 2001 federal election.
While serving as a backbencher between 2001 and 2004, Mr Sciacca was elected as World Secretary of the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC), an international network of parliamentarians based in Ottawa Canada established for the single purpose of fighting corruption and promoting integrity in world governments, particularly in developing countries.
Following the 2003 redistribution of federal electorates in Queensland, Mr Sciacca was preselected as the Labor candidate for the newly created seat of Bonner. He was defeated in the 2004 election by a margin of just 0.5%.
Mr Sciacca's lifetime involvement in politics, business and the law, has provided him with invaluable experience in dealing with the peculiarities of governments at all levels and the relationship between government and the law. He currently acts as a consultant to a number of major private and listed companies involved in areas such as biofuels, property development and construction, infrastructure development, shipping and childcare providing advice on government relations and corporate strategy.
He was a foundation fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He also indulges his passion for broadcasting with a regular spot on Brisbane Talk Radio 4BC as the station's political analyst and ad-hoc host of the afternoon drive program.
Mr Sciaccas was awarded the Order of Australia by the Governor General in the 2006 Australia Day celebrations for his contribution to both the community and specifically the veteran community and cancer research.
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