The district of Burnett is an electoral division of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

 in central Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

.

It covers most of the coastal region south of Gladstone

Gladstone, Queensland

- Education :Gladstone has several primary schools, three high schools, and one university campus, Central Queensland University. It is also home to CQIT Gladstone Campus.- Recreation :...

, as well as coastal and inland regions around Bundaberg

Bundaberg, Queensland

Bundaberg is a city in Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Local Government Area of the Bundaberg Region and is a major centre within Queensland's broader Wide Bay-Burnett geographical region...

. Towns within its boundaries include Miriam Vale

Miriam Vale, Queensland

Miriam Vale is a town in the state of Queensland, Australia. The town is situated on the Bruce Highway, 464 km north of Brisbane, the state capital, and 170 km south of Rockhampton....

, Agnes Water

Agnes Water, Queensland

Agnes Water is an increasingly popular tourist town on the coast of Queensland, Australia. It is located approximately 50 km east of the Bruce Highway, Queensland's major coastal route. Agnes Water has the most northerly surfing beach on Australia's east coast. At the 2006 census, Agnes Water had a...

, Rosedale, Bargara

Bargara, Queensland

Bargara is a town located on the central coast of Queensland, Australia. The town lies 384 kilometres north of the state capital Brisbane and just east of Bundaberg. Bargara is considered to be a satellite town of Bundaberg, with only sugar cane fields separating the two centres. Between 1912 and...

, Woodgate

Woodgate, Queensland

Woodgate, is a seaside township on the Burrum Coast of Queensland, Australia. The majority of the coastline of Woodgate consists of sandy beach, making it a popular holiday destination for people who live in nearby areas of Queensland. At the 2006 census, Woodgate had a population of 758.On the...

 and Childers

Childers, Queensland

Childers is a town in southern Queensland, Australia, situated at the junction of the Bruce and Isis Highways. The township lies north of the state capital Brisbane and south-west of Bundaberg. Childers is located within Bundaberg Region Local Government Area. At the 2006 census, Childers had a...

. The Burnett River

Burnett River

The Burnett River is a river in central Queensland, Australia that empties into the Pacific Ocean near the city of Bundaberg. The Burnett River region is largely given over to growing sugar cane....

 flows through the electoral district, hence its name.

The Independent Rob Messenger currently holds the seat, however it is considered a marginal seat.

Robert Mackenzie

Robert Mackenzie (Queensland politician)

Sir Robert Ramsay Mackenzie, 10th Baronet was premier of Queensland, Australia from August 1867 to November 1868.-Early life:...

 held the seat from 1860 to 1869.

Members for Burnett

First incarnation (1860–1873, 2 members)
Member		Party	Term
	Charles Robert Haly	Squatter-conservative	1860–1863
	Robert Mackenzie Robert Mackenzie (Queensland politician) Sir Robert Ramsay Mackenzie, 10th Baronet was premier of Queensland, Australia from August 1867 to November 1868.-Early life:...	Squatter-conservative	1860–1869
	John Edwards	Squatter-conservative	1863–1865
	Charles Robert Haly	Squatter-conservative	1865–1867
	Ratcliffe Pring	Squatter-conservative	1867–1870
	Charles Robert Haly	Squatter-conservative	1869–1871
	Berkeley Basil Moreton	Independent Liberal	1870–1871
	John Bramston	Squatter-conservative	1871–1873
	Walter Scott	Squatter-conservative	1871–1873
Second incarnation (1873–1932, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	Francis Jeffrey Ivory	Squatter-conservative	1873–1878
	William Henry Baynes	McIlwraith conservative	1878–1883
	Berkeley Basil Moreton	Liberal	1883–1888
	George Hall Jones	Unaligned	1888–1891
	James John Cadell	Conservative	1891–1896
	William McCord	Conservative	1896–1898
	William John Ryott Maughan	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...	1898–1899
	William Kent	Ministerialist	1899–1904
	Alfred Jones	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...	1904–1909
	Robert Hodge	Ministerialist	1909–1912
	Bernard Corser Bernard Corser Bernard Henry Corser was an Australian politician. In 1912, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Burnett, joining the Nationalist Party on its formation in 1917. He held the seat until 1928...	Ministerialist/Liberal/Nationalist Nationalist Party of Australia The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...	1912–1928
	Robert Boyd	Country and Progressive National Country and Progressive National Party The Country and Progressive National Party was a short-lived conservative political party in the Australian state of Queensland.-History:It was created in 1925 as the result of a merger between the state's two conservative parties, the United Party and the Country Party, in an attempt to end...	1928–1932
Third incarnation (1960–present, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	Claude Wharton	Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1960–1975
		National Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1975–1982
		National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1982–1986
	Doug Slack Doug Slack Douglas John "Doug" Slack is a former Australian politician. He was the National Party member for Burnett in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1986 to 2001....	National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1986–2001
	Trevor Strong Trevor Strong Trevor Leonard Strong is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2004, representing the seat of Burnett....	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...	2001–2004
	Rob Messenger	National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	2004–2008
		Liberal National	2008–2010
		Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	2010–present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)