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Location: Central Qld: Emerald, Gladstone, Longreach, Monto Division named for: Rev John Flynn, Founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service Median weekly family income: $888 (85th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 2.8% (140th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 25.7% (70th highest) Persons engaged in agriculture: 19.2% (8th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 9.9% (114th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 42.4% (30th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 22.3% (102nd highest) Sitting member: Chris Trevor (Labor), Elected 2007 Born 23 June 1961, Clermont, Qld. Career: Educated Qld Institute of Technology. Lawyer, Senior Counsellor, Queensland Law Society. Gladstone City Council 2004-06. 2007 notional two-party majority: National 07.9 2007 two-party majority: Labor 00.2 
2004 enrolment: none (new seat) 2007 enrolment: 87,982 (new boundaries) Flynn was created by the 2006 redistribution, from parts of the old seats of Capricornia, Hinkler, Maranoa and Wide Bay. Its largest centre is the Labor stronghold of Gladtone, and it runs inland through National-voting rural towns such as Monto and Eidsvold to the mining towns of Emerald and Blackwater, and further west to the outback towns of Longreach, Blackall and Barcaldine. These towns, once strongholds of the AWU, were the cradle of the Labor Party in the 1890s, and some still have a reasonable Labor vote. The small rural booths generally vote heavily for the Nationals. Flynn has the usual rural mix of low median family incomes, a low level of people in professional occupations and a low proportion of people born in non English speaking countries. Nearly a fifth of its workforce is employed in agriculture. In 2004 Labor carried all but one of the Gladstone-area booths, although not by large margins. The Nationals carried most of the rural booths with large margins - over 90% in some booths in the Burnett region. But the 2007 election law a swing of 8.1% to Labor, allowing Labor's Chris Trevor, a Gladstone lawyer, to win the seat. Labor polled 79% of the two-party vote at Tieri, and also topped 70% at Blackwater and Gladstone South. Labor polled over 60% in all the Gladstone booths. The Nationals polled 90% at Guluguba, and over 80% at a number of other small rural booths. | |  Two-party vote by booth, 2007 (north)
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