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Location: Arundel, Labrador, Oxenford, Runaway Bay Division named for: Rt Hon Sir Arthur Fadden, Prime Minister of Australia 1941 Median weekly family income: $825 (108th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 8.1% (83rd highest) Persons in professional occupations: 20.3% (124th highest) Persons employed in tourism: 7.7% (9th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 13.0% (78th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 34.2% (122nd highest) Dwellings being purchased: 24.7% (82nd highest) Sitting member: Stuart Robert (Liberal), elected 2007 Born 11 December 1970, Cranbourne, Victoria. Career: Educated University of NSW, University of Central Qld, Qld University of Technology. Army officer. Chief Executive Officer, GMT Recruitment 1999-2007. 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 17.8 Effect of 1998 redistribution: 00.2 shift to Labor 1998 two-party majority: Liberal 07.6 2001 two-party majority: Liberal 12.3 Effect of 2004 redistribution: 00.8 shift to Liberal 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 15.3 Effect of 2006 redistribution: no change 2007 two-party majority: Liberal 10.2 
2004 enrolment: 82,141 2007 enrolment: 92,909 (+13.1%) (new boundaries) Fadden was created in 1977, and was originally based in Brisbane's southern suburbs and the rural areas between Brisbane and the NSW border. Successive redistributions have moved it first into the south-eastern bayside suburbs of Brisbane and more recently down the coast so that it now occupies the suburbanising corridor between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, and includes northern parts of the Gold Coast tourism and retirement strip. Unlike most fringe-suburban areas, it is not a mortgage belt seat, as shown by the low level of families with dependent children and the only average level of dwellings being purchased. The seat has a relatively low level of median family income and a very low level of people in professional occupations. David Jull held Fadden for the Liberals from 1984, when seat was moved eastwards and became reasonably secure for the Liberals, until his retirement in 2007. His successor is Stuart Robert, a former Army officer who served in Bougainville. Labor gained a swing of 5.1% at the 2007 election, and the seat is still fairly safe for the Liberals. In 2007 the Liberals polled 79% of the two-party vote at Hope Island, and also polled more than 65% at Alberton, Helensvale North, Paradise Point and Runaway Bay. Labor won Cedar Creek, Labrador, Musgrave Hill, Southport and Studio Village. | | 
Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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