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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Fadden, Queensland
Gold Coast: Labrador, Oxenford, Pacific Pines, Runaway Bay
Sitting member: Hon Stuart Robert (Liberal), elected 2004
Enrolment at close of rolls: 104,729
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 14.4%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Daniel Kwon
Australian Greens |
2. Lyn Rees
Family First |
3. Hon Stuart Robert
Liberal Party |
4. Sean Macnamara
Veterans Party |
5. Brenden Ball
One Nation |
6. Meaghan Scanlon
Australian Labor Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
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 seats, 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 Beddall won Fadden for Labor in 1983, but in 1984 he shifted to the new seat of Rankin, and David Jull regained Fadden for the Liberals, when the seat was moved eastwards and became reasonably secure for the Liberals. Jull (who was member for Bowman 1975-83) was briefly a minister in the first Howard government, but otherwise enjoyed a long career on the backbench until his retirement in 2007.
Stuart Robert, Liberal MP for Fadden since 2007, was an Australian Army officer for eleven years, and later ran a recruitment company before entering politics. He was on the opposition front bench from 2009, and was a minister in the Abbott-Turnbull Government, until he resigned in February 2016, following a controversy over his attendance at a business meeting in China in 2014.
The Labor candidate in 2016 is Meaghan Scanlon, a solicitor.
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