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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Brisbane, Queensland
Central Brisbane: Ashgrove, Clayfield, Enoggera, Hamilton
Sitting member: Hon Teresa Gambaro (Liberal), elected 1996, defeated 2007, elected 2010. Retiring 2016
Enrolment at close of rolls: 106,958
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 4.3%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Trevor Evans
Liberal Party |
2. Pat O'Neill
Australian Labor Party |
3. Dr John Humphries
Liberal Democratic Party |
4. Bridget Clinch
Veterans Party |
5. Kirsten Lovejoy
Australian Greens |
6. Mark Vegar
Family First |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Brisbane has existed since Federation, and and various times has taken in most of the city north of the Brisbane River, and sometimes south of it. Since 1949 it has consisted of central Brisbane and the inner suburbs. On the 2007 boundaries, it extended north-west to take in Labor-voting Ashgrove. The 2009 redistribution changed it substantially, reorienting it to the east to include some of Brisbane's strongest Liberal areas in Clayfield and Hamilton.
Like most inner-city seats, Brisbane now has a high median income level and a high proportion of people in professional occupations, combined with low levels of families with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased. Its proportion of people born in non English speaking countries is low for an inner city seat, and lower than in some other Brisbane-area seats.
Brisbane, once a safe Labor seat, grew increasingly marginal in the 1970s and 80s, and was won by the Liberals in 1975. But the increasing cosmopolitanisation of inner city seats improved Labor's position in the 1990s, and it was one of only two seats retained by Labor in Queensland in 1996.
Arch Bevis, a former teachers union official, won Brisbane in 1990, and was briefly a parliamentary secretary in the Keating government. In 2007 he won with a fairly comfortable majority, but the new, less favourable, boundaries, combined with the strong reaction in Queensland to the demise of Kevin Rudd, produced a big swing in 2010 that saw Bevis defeated after holding the seat for 20 years.
Teresa Gambaro, Liberal MP for Brisbane since 2010, is a former sales manager and marketing consultant. She won the northern Brisbane seat of Petrie in 1996, and was a parliamentary secretary in the Howard government, before being defeated in 2007. In 2010 she stood for Brisbane and won it, and retained it with an increased majority in 2013. In March she announced that she would retire at the 2016 election.
The new Liberal Party candidate will be Trevor Evans, chief executive of the National Retail Association and former chief-of-staff to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton. The Labor candidate will be Pat O'Neill, who has served in the Australian Army since 1999, reaching the rank of Major. In a first for Australian politics, both candidates are openly gay.
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