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Electoral District Of Buderim
Buderim is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Based on the Sunshine Coast, the district is a traditionally safe seat for the Liberal National Party. Geography A compact urban electorate, Buderim falls between the centres of Maroochydore and Nambour, bounded by the Bruce Highway The Bruce Highway is a major highway in Queensland, Australia. Commencing in the state capital, Brisbane, it passes through areas close to the eastern coast on its way to Cairns in Far North Queensland. The route is part of the Australian Natio ... to the west, and the Sunshine Motorway to the east. It includes the Sunshine Coast suburbs of Buderim, Mountain Creek, Sippy Downs and Tanawha. History A new district created for the 2009 state election, it was constructed mostly from the northern part of the district of Kawana and the western part of the district of Maroochydore. It also took a section of territory previously belonging to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Mickelberg
Brent Andrew Mickelberg (born 3 October 1981) is an Australian politician. He has been the Liberal National Party member for Buderim in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2017. Mickelberg served in the Australian Army as an infantry officer. During that time, he deployed to East Timor, Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ... and worked on border protection operations. References 1981 births Living people Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Liberal National Party of Queensland politicians Politicians from Brisbane 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-LiberalNational-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nambour, Queensland
Nambour is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Nambour had a population of 12,145 people. Geography Nambour is north of the state capital, Brisbane. The town lies in the sub-tropical hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sunshine Coast at the foot of the Blackall Range It was the administrative centre and capital of the Shire of Maroochy, Maroochy Shire and is now the administrative centre of the Sunshine Coast Region. The greater Nambour region includes surrounding suburbs such as Burnside, Queensland, Burnside, Coes Creek, Queensland, Coes Creek, and Perwillowen, Queensland, Perwillowen. Nambour–Mapleton Road exits to the west and Nambour–Bli Bli Road to the east. Etymology The name is derived from the Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal word "naamba", referring to the red-flowering Callistemon, bottle brush ''Callistemon viminalis''. History In 1862 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Queensland State Election
The 2017 Queensland state election was held on 25 November 2017 to elect all 93 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the unicameral Parliament of Queensland. The first-term incumbent Labor government, led by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, won a second term in government. They were challenged by the Liberal National opposition, led by Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls and minor parties One Nation, Katter's Australian Party and the Greens. The 2015 election outcome had delivered a hung parliament with 44 seats to the Labor opposition, 42 seats to the one-term Liberal National government, and three to the crossbench including two to Katter's Australian Party. Just one seat short of majority government, Labor was able to form minority government with confidence and supply support from sole independent MP Peter Wellington, who otherwise retained the right to vote on conscience. During the parliamentary term, Labor MPs Billy Gordon and Rob Pyne became independent MPs, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON), also known as One Nation (ON) or One Nation Party (ONP), is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia. It is led by Pauline Hanson. One Nation was founded in 1997 by Hanson and her advisors David Ettridge and David Oldfield (politician), David Oldfield after Hanson was disendorsed as a federal candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia. The disendorsement came before the 1996 Australian federal election, 1996 federal election following comments she made about Indigenous Australians. Oldfield, a councillor on Manly Council in suburban Sydney and at one time an employee of Liberal minister Tony Abbott, was the organisational architect of the party. Hanson sat as an Independent (politician), independent for one year before forming Pauline Hanson's One Nation. One Nation had electoral success in the late 1990s, before suffering an extended decline after 2001. Nevertheles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Dickson
Steven Lance Dickson (born 24 June 1962) is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly beginning in 2006, representing the electorates of Kawana (2006–2009) and Buderim (2009–2017). First elected for the Liberal Party, he joined the Liberal National Party in the 2008 merger, but switched to Pauline Hanson's One Nation in January 2017. He subsequently lost his seat to the LNP candidate at the 2017 election. Dickson served as Minister for National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing in the Campbell Newman government from 2012 to 2015. Political career Dickson was a small business owner until his election as a divisional councillor for Maroochy Shire in 2000. He acted as a chair for town planning and a board member of the combined Maroochy/Caloundra Water Board. In 2006 he entered state politics, taking the seat of Kawana and defeating sitting ALP member Chris Cummins with a 7% swing. He was a vocal supporter of a merger between the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Queensland State Election
The 2009 Queensland state election was held on 21 March 2009 to elect all 89 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Legislative Assembly, a unicameral parliament. The election saw the incumbent Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), Labor government led by Premier of Queensland, Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Leader of the Opposition (Queensland), Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a fifth consecutive term in office for her party. Bligh thus became the first female Premier of any Australian State elected in her own right. This was the first election contested by the Liberal National Party of Queensland, LNP following its creation with the merger of the National Party of Australia – Queensland, National and Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division), Liberal parties. The 2009 election marked the eighth consecutive victory of Labor in a general election since 1989, although it was out of office betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanawha, Queensland
Tanawha (pronounced /'tæn-uh-wuh/) is a rural Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is a suburb of Buderim. The name ''Tanawha'' is believed to be a Māori language word referring to a Taniwha, legendary New Zealand monster. In the , Tanawha had a population of 1,312 people. Geography Tanawha is in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sunshine Coast hinterland and is part of the Buderim urban centre. It is home of the Tanawha Tourist Drive. The Bruce Highway passes through from south-east to north-west, and the Sunshine Motorway runs to the east. The eastern boundary includes a short length of the Bruce Highway and a short length of the Sunshine Motorway. History The locality is believed to be named using a Māori language, Maori language word referring to a legendary New Zealand monster Taniwha. Tanawha Tourist Drive was the former Bruce Highway until 16 November 1989 when the Tanawha Deviation opened to traffi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sippy Downs, Queensland
Sippy Downs is a suburb of Buderim in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Sippy Downs had a population of 11,544 people. Geography Sippy Downs is part of the Buderim urban centre. It contains the housing estate locality of Chancellor Park, and Australia's newest university, the University of the Sunshine Coast. Prior to development the area featured coastal forests and plains. History The name 'Sippy' is derived from the Aboriginal word ''Dhippi'' or ''Jippi'', a generic name for ''winged creatures'' and believed to mean a ''place of birds''. Sippy Downs was a part of the Moolooloo Plains pastoral run leased by John Westaway & Sons in the 1860s. In 1870 all runs ceased, and the land became available for lease. It was not occupied until 1938, when it was occupied as a perpetual lease selection until 1957. Sippy Downs was then purchased by Alfred Grant. A portion was then sold onto Frank Cunning who raised cattle there until it was sold to the INVESTA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Creek, Queensland
Mountain Creek is a suburb in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mountain Creek had a population of 11,950 people. Geography Mountain Creek was named after the creek of the same name that drains the southern slopes of Buderim. It is tidal for a short distance and flows into the Mooloolah River above the Cod Hole and the Traffic Bridge on the Nicklin Way. History The suburb was named and bounded on 25 October 1986. Mountain Creek State School opened on 1 January 1994. Mountain Creek State High School on 27 January 1995. Brightwater State School opened on 1 January 2012. Demographics In the , Mountain Creek had a population of 11,254 people. In the , Mountain Creek had a population of 11,950 people. Education Mountain Creek State School is a government primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at Lady Musgrave Drive (). It includes a special education program. In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 984 students with 68 teachers (59 ful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buderim (suburb)
Buderim is the central suburb of the town of Buderim in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the suburb of Buderim had a population of 31,430 people. It is the central suburb of the town of Buderim and comprises 63% of Buderim's urban population. History The suburb takes its name from the Kabi language word ''badderam'' meaning ''red soil'' and ''red honeysuckle'' (a species of Banksia) Kabi language, Undanbi group. Refer J.G. Steele. Aboriginal pathways. Brisbane, 1983, p. 179. Buderim Mountain Provisional School on 5 July 1875. Circa 1887 it became Buderim Mountain State School. Buderim Methodist Church was established in 1907 on the corner of Gloucester Road and King Street. A new church was built in 1963 as an extension of the old church. Following the amalgamation of the Methodist Church into the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, it became the Buderim Uniting Church. The current church building was built in 1998. On 3 February 2013 the ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunshine Motorway
The Sunshine Motorway is a thirty-three kilometre Australian motorway on the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland, just north of Brisbane. It was initially a tolled motorway before these were removed in 1996 after excessive complaints regarding the need of a toll. It is part of State Route 70, which extends north a further 12.3 kilometres to Noosaville. Route The Sunshine Motorway is distinctive in that it is considered a low-budget motorway. Moreover, it features a significant change in direction, shifting from an east–west alignment to a north–south orientation at the Nicklin Way interchange. The motorway's journey commences at the interchange with the Bruce Highway at Palmview, proceeding eastward past Sippy Downs and Mountain Creek. There, it intersects with the Nicklin Way and subsequently heads north, ultimately concluding at Emu Mountain Road near Peregian Beach. Due to budget constraints, the majority of traffic on this motorway is confined to a single lane in eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Highway
The Bruce Highway is a major highway in Queensland, Australia. Commencing in the state capital, Brisbane, it passes through areas close to the eastern coast on its way to Cairns in Far North Queensland. The route is part of the Australian National Highway (Australia), National Highway and also part of Highway 1 (Australia), Highway 1, the longest highway route in Australia. Its length is approximately ; it is entirely sealed with bitumen. The highway is named after a popular former Queensland and federal politician, Henry Bruce (Australian politician), Harry Bruce. Bruce was the state Minister for Works in the mid-1930s when the highway was named after him. The highway once passed through Brisbane, but was truncated at Bald Hills, Queensland, Bald Hills when the Gateway Motorway became National Highway 1 upon its opening in December 1986. It was previously known as the Great North Coast Road, being renamed as the Bruce Highway in 1934 after the state's Minister for Public Works, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
