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Division of Bowman | Braddon |
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Location: Brisbane: Capalaba, Cleveland, Redland Bay, Victoria Point Division named for: David Bowman, Queensland state MP and labour leader Median weekly family income: $967 (55th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 6.0% (96th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 21.5% (115th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 11.5% (105th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 40.9% (40th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 33.9% (28th highest) Sitting member: Dr Andrew Laming (Liberal), elected 2004, 2007 Born: 30 September 1966, Hobart. Career: Medical practitioner, World Bank consultant, health planning specialist, ministerial adviser, management consultant 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 00.9 Effect of 1998 redistribution: no change 1998 two-party majority: Labor 03.3 2001 two-party majority: Labor 01.4 Effect of 2004 redistribution: 04.4 shift to Liberal 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 08.9 Effect of 2006 redistribution: No change 2007 notional two-party majority: Liberal 08.9 2007 two-party majority: Liberal 00.0 
2004 enrolment: 86,262 2007 enrolment: 88,977 (+03.1%) (new boundaries) Bowman was created in 1949 and has always occupied territory in Brisbane's south-eastern beachside suburbs. It has always been a marginal seat (every member who has held the seat has been defeated), but recent redistributions have pushed it further to the south-east, making it a better seat for the Liberals. It has a high level of families with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased, the indicators of a mortgage belt seat. Strikingly, it has the lowest proportion of people born in non English speaking countries of any urban seat in Australia. Con Sciacca served two stints as Labor member for Bowman and was a minister in the Keating government. The 2004 redistribution created a new seat of Bonner, including most of Bowman's better Labor areas, and Sciacca (unsuccessfully) contested Bonner in 2004. Bowman passed to the Liberal Dr Andrew Laming, an ophthalmologist and World Bank health consultant. Despite his impressive CV, Laming sustained an 8.9% swing against him in 2007 and survived by only 64 votes after a prolonged count. The Liberals polled 65% of the two-party vote at Cleveland East, while polling over 55% at Cleveland School, Lake Sherrin, Mt Cotton, Ormiston and Redland Bay. Labor polled best in the Indigenous communities on North Stradbroke Island, particularly Dunwich (66%), and also polled over 60% at Alexandra Hills and Lamb Island. | |  Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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