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Location: Brisbane: Chandler, Manly, Wishart, Wynnum Division named for: Neville Bonner, Senator 1971-83, first Indigenous member of the Australian Parliament Median weekly family income: $1,012 (47th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 10.4% (73rd highest) Persons in professional occupations: 26.2% (62nd highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 13.1% (74th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 38.1% (81st highest) Dwellings being purchased: 28.0% (58th highest) Sitting member: Kerry Rea (Labor), elected 2007 Born: 16 April 1963, Bundaberg, Queensland. Career: Brisbane City Councillor 1991-94, 1997-2007. 2001 notional two-party majority: Labor 01.9 Effect of 2004 redistribution: new seat 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 00.6 Effect of 2006 redistribution: No change 2007 notional two-party majority: Liberal 00.6 2007 two-party majority: Labor 04.5 
2004 enrolment: 86,731 2007 enrolment: 90,381 (+04.2%) (new boundaries) Bonner was created in 2004 from parts of the Labor-held seats of Bowman and Griffith in Brisbane's eastern suburbs. The northern part of the seat around Manly and Wynnum is traditional Labor territory, but further south the newer suburbs are marginal. The seat occupies the mid range on most key demographic indicators: it is not really a mortgage belt seat, like Bowman to the east, nor is it a multicultural inner-city seat like Griffith to the west. In 2004 the sitting Labor member for Bowman, former minister Con Sciacca, was expected to win this new seat, but he became a victim of Mark Latham's lack of appeal to suburban voters in Queensland and was surprisingly defeated by Ross Vasta, But with Kevin Rudd riding high this most marginal Queensland Liberal seat was impossible to defend, and in 2007 Vasta was defeated by Labor's Kerry Rea, a former Brisbane City Councillor. Labor polled 72% of the two-party vote at Murrarie and also topped 65% at Hemmant, Lindum, Wynnum Central and Wynnum North High. The Liberals polled 64% at Mt Petrie. Rea's prospects will depend on Queensland's frequent redistributions. | |  Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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