The Division of Bonner is an Australian Electoral Division in

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, located in the eastern suburbs of

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, including the suburbs of Chandler,

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, Manly,

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, Wishart and

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. The current MP is Kara Cook of the Labor Party.

Geography

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. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.

History

The division was created in 2004 and is named after

Neville Bonner Neville Thomas Bonner AO (28 March 19225 February 1999) was an Australian politician, and the first Aboriginal Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia. He was appointed by the Queensland Parliament to fill a casual vacancy ...

, the first Aboriginal Australian person to serve in the Australian Parliament. Bonner served in the federal Senate as a Queensland Liberal Senator. The seat had a notional

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majority when it was created, but was won by the

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by a slight margin.

Kerry Rea Kerry Marie Rea (born 16 April 1963) is an Australian politician. She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 2007 to 2010, representing the Division of Bonner in Queensland. Early life Rea was bor ...

regained the seat for Labor in

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. Then Ross Vasta re-took the seat for the LNP at the 2010 election. Vasta then remained the MP for Bonner until the 2025 Federal Election where he lost the seat to Labor's Kara Cook.

Members

Election results

Notes

References

External links

Division of Bonner (Qld)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bonner, Division of Electoral divisions of Australia Constituencies established in 2004 2004 establishments in Australia Federal politics in Queensland