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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Moreton, Queensland
Southside Brisbane: Acacia Ridge, Moorooka, Sherwood, Sunnybank
Sitting member: Graham Perrett (Labor), elected 2007
Enrolment at close of rolls: 97,820
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 1.6%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Des Soares
Nick Xenophon Team |
2. Andrew Cooper
Liberal Democratic Party |
3. Graham Perrett
Australian Labor Party |
4. Kristen Lyons
Australian Greens |
5. Shan Ju Lin
Katter's Australian Party |
6. Nic Monsour
Liberal Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Moreton has existed since Federation, although its boundaries have varied greatly over that time - it was orginally based on Ipswich. Since 1949 it has been a southern Brisbane suburban seat, initially safe for the Liberal Party but growing more marginal as these areas declined in socio-economic terms. Although it has a relatively high level of median family income, a significant sign of social change is that it has Queensland's highest proportion of people born in non English speaking countries, mainly due to an influx of Chinese immigrants. This suggests that the seat is becoming an inner city multuicultural seat rather than a suburban mortgage belt seat.
Members for Moreton have included long-serving conservative ministers Sir Josiah Francis and Sir James Killen. Garrie Gibson, the first Labor member for Moreton since 1906, was defeated in the Howard landslide of 1996. His successor, Gary Hardgrave, was a junior minister in the Howard Government, but was defeated in the Rudd sweep of Queensland seats in 2007.
Graham Perrett, MP for Moreton since 2007, was a teacher and an organiser with the Queensland Independent Education Union before his election. He was narrowly re-elected in 2010 and 2013, and has been a shadow parliamentary secretary since 2014. This is a still a marginal seat, but having survived Labor's defeat Perrett can now hope that Labor's fortunes in Queensland will revive. His Liberal opponent in 2016 will be Nic Monsour, a management consultant and brother-in-law of former Premier Campbell Newman.
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Other seats of interest
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