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Location: Brisbane: Clayfield, Kedron, Nudgee, Sandgate Division named for: Sir Charles Lilley, Premier of Queensland Median weekly family income: $957 (62nd highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 8.2% (81st highest) Persons in professional occupations: 26.1% (64th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 16.0% (24th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 31.8% (140th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 23.4% (90th highest) Sitting member: Hon Wayne Swan (Labor), elected 1993, defeated 1996, elected 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 Born: 30 June 1954, Nambour, Queensland. Career: Lecturer Queensland Institute of Technology, policy analyst, Office of Youth Affairs, adviser to Hon Bill Hayden MHR, Hon Mick Young MHR, Hon Kim Beazley. Qld ALP State Secretary 1991-93. Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry 1998-2000 and since 2001. Shadow Minister for Family and Community Services 1998-2000 and 2001-04. Shadow Treasurer 2004-07. Treasurer from 3 December 2008 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 00.7 Effect of 1998 redistribution: 00.3 shift to ALP 1998 two-party majority: Labor 03.1 2001 two-party majority: Labor 04.8 Effect of 2004 redistribution: 00.2 shift to Liberal 2004 two-party majority: Labor 05.3 Effect of 2006 redistribution: no change 2007 notional two-party majority: Labor 05.3 2007 two-party majority: Labor 08.6 
2004 enrolment: 92,235 2007 enrolment: 90,757 (-01.6%) (new boundaries) Lilley has existed since 1913, and was originally a rural seat north of Brisbane, based on Gympie. Since 1949 it has been confined to a block of suburbs on Brisbane's northside, based on the Labor strongholds of Nudgee and Sandgate, but including areas of Liberal strength around Clayfield. The seat has a stable, ageing population of mainly low-to-middle income earners, with a very low level of families with dependent children. Since 1949 Lilley has always been a marginal seat, but as with most inner suburban seats, it is gradually improving for Labor and is now fairly secure. Wayne Swan, a former Queensland Labor Party State Secretary and advisor to a number of ministers in the Hawke and Keating governments, won the seat in 1993, lost it in 1996 and won it back in 1998. Swan is a leading Labor insider who has played key roles in the various leadership changes over the past decade. He was on the Opposition frontbench from 1998 and was appointed Shadow Treasurer after the 2004 election, retaining this position under Kim Beazley and Kevin Rudd. In December 2007 he became Treasurer. In 2007 Labor gained a swing of 3.3%, polling 71% of the two-party vote in Banyo and Pinkenba, and over 65% in Banyo East, two booths in Brighton, Deagon, Northgate and Stafford. The Liberals polled 71% in Ascot. | | 
Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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