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Marchant Ward
The Marchant Ward is a Brisbane City Council ward covering Alderley, Aspley, Chermside, Chermside West, Geebung, Gordon Park, Grange, Kedron, Lutwyche, Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in ..., Stafford Heights and Windsor. Councillors for Marchant Ward Results References City of Brisbane wards {{Brisbane-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal National Party Of Queensland
The Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) is a major political party in Queensland, Australia. It was formed in 2008 by a merger of the Queensland divisions of the Liberal Party and the National Party. At a federal level and in most other states, the two parties remain distinct and operate as a Coalition. The LNP is a division of the Liberal Party of Australia, and an affiliate of the National Party of Australia. After suffering defeat at its first election in 2009 the LNP won government for the first time at the 2012 election, winning 78 out of 89 seats, a record majority in the unicameral Parliament of Queensland. Campbell Newman became the first LNP Premier of Queensland. The Newman Government was subsequently defeated by the Labor Party at the 2015 election. History Background Since the 1970s, the Queensland branches/divisions of the National Party and Liberal Party had found themselves in frequent competition with one another for seats in Queensland. The Lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grange, Queensland
Grange is a northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Grange had a population of 4,318 people. Geography Grange is located north of the Brisbane central business district, on the southern side of Kedron Brook. It is sometimes referred to as The Grange. There is a hill in the west of the surbub called The Pinnacle () rising to above sea level. History Prior to the arrival of British settlers, the Grange area consisted of areas of open grassland and thinly wooded plains. In the 1860s fellmonger T. K. Peate established The Grange Tannery and Fellmongery Company on Kedron Brook. Suburban development of the area commenced in 1903 with the subdivision of T. K. Peate's property into "the Grange Estate". The name of the suburb is derived from that of Peate's property: "Grange" is believed to be an Old English word meaning granary. Many houses in the suburb are of the Queenslander architectural style. In about March 1918 a block of land was pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
The Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), commonly known as Queensland Labor or as just Labor inside Queensland, is the state branch of the Australian Labor Party in the state of Queensland. It has functioned in the state since the 1880s. History Trade unionists in Queensland had begun attempting to secure parliamentary representation as early as the mid-1880s. William McNaughton Galloway, the president of the Seamen's Union, mounted an unsuccessful campaign as an independent in an 1886 by-election. A Workers' Political Reform Association was founded to nominate candidates for the 1888 election, at which the Brisbane Trades and Labor Council endorsed six candidates. Thomas Glassey won the seat of Bundamba at that election, becoming the first self-identified "labor" MP in Queensland. The Queensland Provincial Council of the Australian Labor Federation was formed in 1889 in an attempt to unite Labor campaign efforts. Tommy Ryan won the seat of Barcoo for the labour mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsor, Queensland
Windsor is an inner northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Windsor had a population of 7,013 people. Geography Windsor is located about from the Brisbane central business district. It is largely residential, featuring many old Queenslanders, although there is also considerable retail commercial activity, primarily concentrated along Lutwyche and Newmarket Roads. History Land was first sold in this remote part of then New South Wales in 1854 and development was slow until the opening of the Bowen Bridge in 1860, named after the newly arrived first Governor of Queensland, Sir George Bowen, allowing easier access to the district. At that time the district was known as Breakfast Creek or Upper Breakfast Creek. Distinctive homes including ''Rosemount'', ''Oakwal'', ''The Bower'', ''Wilston House'' and ''Eildon'' were built on large portions of land. In 1864, pioneer settlers approached the Queensland Government for aid to establish a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stafford Heights, Queensland
Stafford Heights is a northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Stafford Heights had a population of 6,833 people. Geography Stafford Heights is north of the Brisbane GPO by road. Stafford Heights is generally hilly, and has one major waterway, Downfall Creek. Stafford Heights is north of Stafford. History Stafford Heights is named because it is on higher ground than its neighbouring Stafford. The ''Heights'' name was used locally as a neighbourhood name from the 1950s, but it became a gazetted suburb in 1975. ''Stafford'' was a name adopted by local consent in 1885–1886, after Staffordshire in England. Stafford Heights State School opened on 3 April 1956. Somerset Hills State School opened on 24 January 1966. A small part of north-east Stafford Heights is part of Paramount Estate, a plan which involved naming the streets after the last names of actors at around the 1970s. The majority of Paramount Estate lies in McDowall. Since th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stafford, Queensland
Stafford is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Stafford had a population of 6,561 people. Geography Stafford is predominantly a residential suburb, including some original Queenslander-style homes and a significant number of post-war Queensland Housing Commission homes on quarter-acre blocks built around the 1940s and 1950s. Stafford lies to the west of Lutwyche Road, along the banks of Kedron Brook. Being an area of that age, many of Stafford's residents are elderly, but there younger families are increasing there. Sparkes Hill () is in the south-west of the suburb and is above sea level. The water reservoir on the top of the hill holds , which 16% of Brisbane's water supply. History Stafford was originally called Happy Valley. It is possible that the name originates from the fact the Sir Thomas Brisbane for whom the city is named was an officer in the Staffordshire Regiment – a Stafford Knot is featured in the city's coat-of-arms. A p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutwyche, Queensland
Lutwyche is a northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lutwyche had a population of 3,454 people. Lutwyche is north of the city's central business district. Geography Lutwyche Road, a busy thoroughfare that is part of Metroad 3 is the main road through the suburb. Lutwyche Road is lined with many small shops and restaurants in addition to the Centro Lutwyche shopping centre. Kedron Brook, a creek lined with parklands and a bikeway, forms the north-western boundary of Lutwyche. History The suburb is named after Alfred Lutwyche, a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales who was appointed as Supreme Court judge at Moreton Bay on 21 February 1859, shortly before Queensland was granted self-government. On 12 January 1864, Lutwyche purchased the site for what was to become St. Andrew's Church of England (1866) on Lutwyche Road, donating the land to the Church in 1865, and was actively involved in the construction of the church. On his dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kedron, Queensland
Kedron is a northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kedron had a population of 9,359 people. Geography Kedron is centred on Gympie Road and Kedron Brook. It is close to Westfield Chermside shopping centre in the neighbouring suburb of Chermside. Kedron is an inner-northern suburb that neighbours Stafford, Chermside, Wavell Heights, Wooloowin, Lutwyche, and Nundah. Despite the similarity in names, the Brisbane suburbs of Kedron and Upper Kedron are 15.3 kilometres apart. History German missionaries originally settled in the Nundah area (known as German Station) in 1838. These missionaries were granted alongside the creek they named Kedron Brook, after Kidron Valley near Jerusalem. The suburb takes its name from the creek. The first land sales commenced in 1857. Alexander and Amelia Barron settled in the area in 1856. James and Claude Barron worked as a blacksmiths on the corner of Gympie and Stafford Roads. Alfred Lutwyche, Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Park, Queensland
Gordon Park is a northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Gordon Park had a population of 4,231 people. Geography Gordon Park is located from the Brisbane CBD and is bordered by Kedron Brook to the east and south, with its bike-paths, walking tracks and large off-leash dog park, and Stafford Road to the north. It features several cafés. Gordon Park’s unique position within Brisbane’s inner northern belt provides immediate access to major infrastructure such as the Airport Link M7 and Northern Busway. Over 37% of households in this area consist of couples with children, 40% are couples without children and 18% are single parent families. Stand alone housing accounts for 65% of all dwellings in this area, and units account for a further 28%. Highset Queenslanders, many beautifully renovated, are a feature of this green and leafy suburb. In June 2018 the median prices for a house and an apartment in Gordon Park were $889,100 (12% higher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Brisbane City Council Election
Elections to Brisbane City Council were held on Saturday, 19 March 2016 to elect a councillor to each of the local government area's 26 wards and the direct election of the Lord Mayor of Brisbane. The election resulted in the comprehensive re-election of the Liberal National Party under Graham Quirk as Lord Mayor. The Liberal National's increased their representation by one ward to a total of 19 of 26. The lord mayoral result of 59.3% of the two-party-preferred vote was reduced for Quirk from the 69.5% result at the previous election. The main opposition party, the Labor Party was reduced to just 5 wards; its worst result in over a decade. The Queensland Greens The Queensland Greens is a Green party in Queensland, Australia, and a state member of the Australian Greens. The party is currently represented in all three levels of government, by Larissa Waters and Penny Allman-Payne in the federal Senate; ... won their first ward in this election. Results Mayoral election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geebung, Queensland
Geebung is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Geebung had a population of 4,626 people. Geography The suburb is centred on its railway station on the Caboolture railway line. History The suburb takes its name from its railway station, which in turn was named after the fruit of the plant Persoonia media, known as "jibung" in the Dharuk language. The Geebung Baptist church was initiated with a stump capping ceremony on Saturday 7 February 1925; prior to this services had been held in the war memorial hall. On Saturday 14 February 1925, the church was opened in a ceremony attended by 150 people. It was made of weatherboard and could seat about 100 people. The church (including fencing, the organ, the seating etc.) cost having spent for the land. A new church was built in 1969. In May 2012 the Geebung Baptist congregation merged with the Sandgate Baptist congregation, selling their existing churches and establishing a new church, Connect Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chermside West, Queensland
Chermside West is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Chermside West had a population of 6,458 people. Parts of Chermside West were formerly known as Craigslea. Geography Chermside West is located by road north of the Brisbane GPO. History The name Chermside honours Queensland Governor, Sir Herbert Chermside. St Gerard Majella's Catholic Church opened in 1962 in Pullford Road. In 1977 the congregation opened the current church in Maundrell Terrace, and the Pullford Road church was later acquired by the Kedron Brook Christadelphians. The Prince of Peace Lutheran Church opened a church in Maundrell Terrace about 1965. In 1984 the church established the Prince of Peace Lutheran Primary School in Everton Hills. In 1986, the congregation moved to its present location at Everton Hills when a new church was built on the top of the hill adjacent to the college site. Craigslea State School opened on 24 January 1972. Craigslea State High School open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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