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Electoral District Of Algester
The electoral district of Algester is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in south-west Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Algester, Parkinson, Hillcrest, Boronia Heights, Forestdale, Larapinta, Heathwood, Forest Lake, Doolandella and Pallara, as well as the Greenbank Military Range. It borders the electoral districts of Sunnybank, Stretton, Logan, Lockyer, Bundamba and Inala. The Algester electoral district was created at the 1999 redistribution from the former electoral district of Archerfield, and was contested for the first time at the 2001 election. It had been a safe seat for the Labor Party since its inception, as had Archerfield, but it was won by Anthony Shorten of the Liberal National Party at the 2012 election. Leeanne Enoch Leeanne Margaret Enoch is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Communities and Housing and Minister for the Arts and Digital Economy of Queensland. She has also served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeanne Enoch
Leeanne Margaret Enoch is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Communities and Housing and Minister for the Arts and Digital Economy of Queensland. She has also served as the Labor Party member for Algester in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015. Early life and education Enoch was born the oldest of four, and became the first member of her family to graduate from university. She is the sister of playwright Wesley Enoch, who is the eldest of three brothers. Career Enoch worked as a high school English and drama teacher in schools across South-East Queensland and East London, later becoming a manager of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy in the State Education Department. Upon her election to the Queensland Parliament in 2015, Enoch became a first-term cabinet minister, becoming Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Science and Innovation. Her department launched the Advance Queensland initiative in June 2015, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boronia Heights, Queensland
Boronia Heights is a suburb in the City of Logan, Queensland, Australia. In the , Boronia Heights had a population of 7,862 people. Geography Boronia Heights lies to the west of Park Ridge. History Boronia Heights was known as the Logan Ridges through to the early 1890s. Boronia Heights State School opened on 29 January 1990. Boronia Heights was gazetted as a suburb in October 1991 and was named after the first residential housing estate in the area. Demographics In the , Boronia Heights recorded a population of 7,604 people, 51.6% female and 48.4% male. The median age of the Boronia Heights population was 30 years, 7 years below the national median of 37. 71.4% of people living in Boronia Heights were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand 7.4%, England 3.4%, Philippines 1.1%, India 0.9%, Fiji 0.7%. 83.6% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1.3% Samoan, 0.8% Urdu, 0.8% Hindi, 0.7% German, 0.5% M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Shorten
Anthony Shorten (born 12 June 1969) is a former Australian Liberal National politician and a former Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He currently is a community advocate for the Logan region. In October 2023 he became a candidate for Logan City Council Division 7. Politics Shorten represented Algester from 2012 to 2015, having defeated Karen Struthers Karen Struthers (born 19 February 1963) is an Australian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2012. Early life and career Before she was elected Struthers was an Assistant Director of the Queensland Coun ... at the 2012 state election. References Liberal National Party of Queensland politicians 1969 births Living people Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Queensland State Election
An election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 17 February 2001 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The result of the election was the return of the Labor Party (ALP) government of Premier Peter Beattie, with an increased majority. Labor won 66 seats, easily the most it has ever won in Queensland and one of Labor's best-ever results nationwide. There was a 10.07% swing towards Labor, while One Nation suffered a 13.98% swing against it, losing eight seats (five of which were held by the newly formed City Country Alliance after an internal split in December 1999). The longstanding coalition between the Nationals and Liberals, led by Nationals leader (and former premier) Rob Borbidge recorded only a 2.39% swing against it. However, its support in Brisbane all but vanished; it was reduced to only one seat in the capital. Largely due to losses in Brisbane, the Coalition suffered an overall 17-seat loss. This included only three seats f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Archerfield
Archerfield was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1972 to 2001. The district was based in the south-western suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Archerfield. Members for Archerfield The members for Archerfield were: Election results See also * Electoral districts of Queensland * Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly This is a list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the state parliament of Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivisi ... by year * :Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly by name References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Archerfield Former electoral districts of Queensland 1972 establishments in Australia 2001 disestablishments in Australia Constituencies established in 1972 Constituencies disestablished in 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Bundamba
Bundamba is a Legislative Assembly of Queensland electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia. The electorate encompasses suburbs in the east and south-east of the City of Ipswich local government area. Major locations include Bundamba, Blackstone, Goodna, Redbank Plains, Augustine Heights and Springfield. Bundamba was also the name of a previous electorate that existed between 1873 and 1912. The seat has been held by the Labor Party since it was recreated in 1992, and for much of that time has been a reasonably safe Labor seat. In the 2006 state election, Labor's Jo-Ann Miller won the seat with 68.5% of the vote. Miller first won the seat in a by-election in February 2000 which was a record vote in a by-election towards a Government. She was the 100th ALP woman elected to Parliament. Miller was nearly swept out in Labor's near-meltdown of 2012, in which her majority was pared back from a comfortably safe 21.2 percent to an extremely marginal 1.8 percent. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Lockyer
Lockyer is an Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The district consists primarily of Gatton, Queensland, Gatton and Laidley, Queensland, Laidley Shires and northern parts of Beaudesert, Queensland, Beaudesert Shire. It includes the major town of Gatton, Queensland, Gatton and a number of smaller centres including Laidley, Queensland, Laidley, Helidon, Queensland, Helidon and Withcott, Queensland, Withcott. The eastern parts of the district are part of the outer southern suburbs of Ipswich, Queensland, Ipswich and Brisbane, Queensland, Brisbane in the area of Greenmount, Queensland (Toowoomba Region), Greenmount. The district is bounded on the west by Electoral district of Toowoomba North, Toowoomba North, and Electoral district of Toowoomba South, Toowoomba South. On the southwest and south by Electoral district of Condamine, Condamine, Elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Sunnybank
Sunnybank was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ... from 1992 to 2001, and again from 2009 to 2017. The district was based in the area of southern suburbs of Brisbane previously named as the suburb of Sunnybank before Sunnybank was broken up into smaller suburbs. It was first created for the 1992 state election only to be abolished ahead of the 2001 state election, essentially replaced by the new district of Stretton. Sunnybank was revived as an electorate for the 2009 state election to replace the abolished district of Mount Gravatt. It was abolished ahead of the 2017 election and replaced by the seat of Toohey. Members for Sunnybank Election results References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenbank Military Range
The Greenbank Military Range is a 4,500ha live training facility for the Australian Defence Force located in Greenbank, Logan City, Queensland, Australia, approximately south-west of Brisbane. The location is heritage listed and also serves as a flora and fauna reserve. It has been the location of several controversial brumby cullings. Oxley Creek flows through the site. In 1952, the site was established as the Greenbank Army Camp. History 1945 Bristol Beaufort crash On 10 April 1945, a RAAF Bristol Beaufort crashed at Greenbank after taking part in an air gunnery exercise at the Gailes Gunnery Range, killing all four crew members. Inland Port Proposal Tom Richman of the King's Counsel, (a biannual newsletter of King & Co Property Consultants) proposed in June 2007 that the Greenbank Military Range's land should be used for an inland port. Richman claims that an inland port at this location would greatly reduce current demands on the Port of Brisbane Port of Brisb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pallara, Queensland
Pallara is an outer southern suburb in the City of Brisbane The City of Brisbane is a local government area (LGA) which comprises the inner portion of the metropolitan area of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. Its governing body is the Brisbane City Council. Unlike LGAs in the other mainlan ..., Queensland, Australia. In the , Pallara had a population of 511 people. Geography Pallara is by road south of the Brisbane GPO. History The name ''Pallara'' means ''flat land'' and is derived from a non-local Aboriginal word spelt with only one "l". The suburb is relatively undeveloped with electricity supply only reaching Pallara in 1961. Ritchie Road State School opened on 24 August 1959. The name was later changed to Pallara State School. In 1997, the Pallara Parklands were opened on a remediated dump. In the , the population of Pallara was 511, 49.3% female and 50.7% male. The median age of the Pallara population was 48 years of age, 10 years above the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doolandella, Queensland
Doolandella is an outer western suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Doolandella had a population of 4,817 people. Geography Doolandella is south-west of the Brisbane central business district. Blunder Creek forms the eastern and southern boundaries of the suburb. The suburb has access to the Ipswich Motorway via Blunder Road as well as the Logan Motorway to the south. History Doolandella was declared as an official suburb in 1976. The name Doolandella, or Dulandella as expressed by Aboriginal Australians Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Island ..., is a Yuggera word referring to the Geebung tree, a broad leaved shrub with yellow fruit which grows in the area. In 2004, a total of 70 houses with a population of 255 was recorded in the sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Lake, Queensland
Forest Lake is an outer south-western suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Forest Lake had a population of 22,904 people. It was the first Master Planned Community within the City of Brisbane. Geography Forest Lake was considered instrumental in the creation of affordable housing within Australia. The development was the first modern-day community to contain small lot product, a first during its time. The master-planned community contained retail, commercial, educational, residential, retirement, and recreational uses. The entire community is linked by an extensive network of pedestrian and cycle paths, which are integrated into the large open-spaced network. Forest Lake lies within the Brisbane City Council municipality and is approximately from the Brisbane central business district. It adjoins the suburbs of Doolandella, Inala, Richlands and Heathwood. It successfully mixes wildlife with residential development. The Forest Lake Shopping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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