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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Dickson, Queensland
Outer northern Brisbane: Albany Creek, Arana Hills, Kurwongbah, Strathpine
Sitting member: Hon Peter Dutton (Liberal), elected 2001
Enrolment at close of rolls: 100,720
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 6.7%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Doug Nicholson
Liberal Democratic Party |
2. Thor Prohaska
Independent |
3. Linda Lavarch
Australian Labor Party |
4. Michael Berkman
Australian Greens |
5. Ray Hutchinson
Family First |
6. Hon Peter Dutton
Liberal Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Dickson was created in 1993, located in Brisbane's fast-growing outer north-western suburbs. It is a classic mortgage belt seat, with levels of
families with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased which are among the country's highest. The seat also has a fairly high level of
median family incomes, although it has a relatively low level of people in professional occupations. The seat has always been politically marginal,
Labor's strength is in suburbs such as Bray Park and Kallangur, while the smaller centres to the north are strongly Liberal.
Members for Dickson have included Michael Lavarch, a minister in the Keating Government, and Cheryl Kernot, who defected from the leadership of the
Australian Democrats in 1998. After three years of erratic behaviour she was defeated in 2001, and the seat has remained with the Liberals since,
despite a close call in 2007.
Peter Dutton, Liberal MP for Dickson since 2001, was a police officer before his election. He was a junior minister in the last term of the Howard
Government, and was on the opposition front bench from 2007 to 2013. He was so certain he would lose Dickson in 2007 that
he tried to shift to the safe seat of McPherson, but was rejected. As it turned out, he narrowly retained Dickson. He was Minister for Health and for
Sport in the Abbott Government and is now Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Labor's first choice as candidate, Michael Gilliver, withdrew
for personal reasons in April. He was replaced by former state minister Linda Lavarch, whose state seat covered some of the same area. Her standing in
the area may help her, but if Labor could not win Dickson in 2007 it seems unlikely they can do so in 2016.
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