The division of Algester is an electoral division in the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 in the state

States and territories of Australia

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 of Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

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. This electorate was created at the 1999 redistribution from the former electorate of Archerfield

Electoral district of Archerfield

Archerfield was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1972 to 2001.The district was based in the south-western suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Archerfield.-Members for Archerfield:...

, and was contested for the first time at the 2001 state election.

It is located in south-western Greater Brisbane and includes the suburbs of Acacia Ridge

Acacia Ridge, Queensland

Acacia Ridge is a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Acacia Ridge is south of the central business district. The population in the 2001 census was 6648....

, Algester

Algester, Queensland

Algester is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is south-west of the central business district.Algester was heavily developed after the Second World War and has also seen considerable recent development. It forms part of the Brisbane Agricultural Reserve, which once covered a...

, Parkinson

Parkinson, Queensland

Parkinson is an outer southern suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 19 km south of the CBD and borders Logan City.Parkinson is sparsely populated with mainly rural land use. It is in the Electoral district of Algester.-External links:* *...

, Calamvale

Calamvale, Queensland

Calamvale is a suburb on the south side of the city of Brisbane, Australia. A relatively large suburb, it adjoins Stretton, Parkinson, Sunnybank Hills, Acacia Ridge, Algester and Drewvale. It is 18 kilometres from Brisbane's central business district....

, Forest Lake

Forest Lake, Queensland

Forest Lake or "The Living Forest" as it is affectionately known, was the first Master Planned Community within the municipality of Brisbane, Queensland. It has won numerous awards for its design and had a population of 20,900 residents, as of February 2006. Delfin, the developer of Forest Lake,...

 and Sunnybank Hills

Sunnybank Hills, Queensland

Sunnybank Hills is an outer southern suburb of Brisbane about 15 kilometres from Brisbane CBD, in Queensland, Australia. It is a large suburb, and adjoins the suburbs of Calamvale, Coopers Plains, Sunnybank, Macgregor, Algester, Acacia Ridge and Runcorn....

, with parts of Coopers Plains and Inala

Inala, Queensland

Inala is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, situated in the south-west of the metropolitan area.-History:Following World War II there was a shortage of 250,000 houses across Australia. State and Commonwealth Governments responded by making housing a priority. In Queensland alone over 4000 families...

. It is a mixture of established suburbs such as Acacia Ridge with newer areas like Forest Lake and Calamvale.

Algester has been a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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 ever since its inception. It was won for the first time in 2001 by Karen Struthers

Karen Struthers

Karen Struthers is an Australian politician. She represents the electoral district of Algester in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, having held the seat since its inception at the 2001 state election. She first entered parliament after the 1998 election, winning the seat of Archerfield...

, the incumbent ALP MP for abolished Archerfield. Struthers currently serves as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health in the Bligh

Anna Bligh

Anna Maria Bligh is an Australian politician and the Premier of Queensland since 2007. The 2009 Queensland state election was the first time a female-led political party won or retained state or federal government in Australia...

 government.

Members for Algester

Member		Party	Term
	Karen Struthers Karen Struthers Karen Struthers is an Australian politician. She represents the electoral district of Algester in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, having held the seat since its inception at the 2001 state election. She first entered parliament after the 1998 election, winning the seat of Archerfield...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	2001-present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)