Electoral district of Mundingburra
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The district of Mundingburra is an electoral district
of the Legislative Assembly
in the Australia
n state of Queensland
.
urban area in North Queensland. Significant utilities within the Mundingburra electorate are the Townsville Hospital
, the Douglas
Campus of James Cook University
and Stockland Shoppingcentre
. Suburbs of the Electorate include; Heatley, Cranbrook
, Aitkenvale
, Mundingburra
, Vincent
, Douglas
, Annandale
, Gulliver
, Mysterton
, Rosslea, part of Kirwan
and Pimlico
north of the Ross River.
Mundingburra Electorate is bordered by the Burdekin
(South), Townsville
(North and East) and Thuringowa
(West) Electorates. With 28,145 voters, the Electorate has almost exactly the Queensland average however due to neighbouring Electorates being due for redistributions, the borders of the Mundingburra Electorate will probably change in the upcoming redistribution.
Mundingburra is currently a safe Labor Party
seat, held by Hon Lindy Nelson-Carr MP
, Minister for Environment and Multiculturalism.
of the Labor Party
, winning by 16 votes. This gave the Goss
government a one-seat majority in Parliament - 45 seats to the Coalition
's 43 and one conservative-leaning independent, Liz Cunningham
. Davies was subsequently appointed as Minister for Emergency Services and Consumer Affairs.
The Liberals challenged the result in August and on 8 December, the court ordered a new election, partly on the basis that administrative difficulties had deprived several military personnel serving in Rwanda
of their vote. It was generally understood that the fate of the Goss government likely rested on the result, and Goss himself was prominent in it, announcing amongst other things a A$
1 billion Korean zinc smelter for Townsville and asking voters to end the uncertainty "bedevilling" the Queensland political system. An expected federal election in March 1996 where the unpopular Keating Government
(also Labor) would face the voters was a key feature in the background.
Things became somewhat chaotic when Labor, on the basis of internal polling data and a legal case between Davies and the Commonwealth Bank, decided to dump Davies as its endorsed candidate, selecting Tony Mooney
, the mayor of Townsville in his place. Davies reacted angrily, ultimately running as an independent and generating a considerable level of media publicity. A total of 12 candidates supporting a raft of causes ended up nominating by the draw of ballot papers on 12 January. On 25 January, Keating called the federal election for 2 March, which Goss described as an "outside distraction".
Contradictory polls generally suggested the Coalition would win, although a late poll by AGB McNair two days before polling day suggested Labor could still win. However, on the day, a swing of 2.83% to the Liberals saw their candidate Frank Tanti, a shop manager and committed Christian who had run a low-level doorknocking campaign for months, win the by-election. Within days, it became clear that Independent Liz Cunningham
would support the Coalition, and the Goss government resigned, allowing Rob Borbidge
to form a minority government which lasted until the 1998 election. At that election, Labor, under Peter Beattie
, won back both Mundingburra and governing party status.
. In 1949 the Electoral district was moved to Townsville and was subsequently abolished in a 1959 redistribution with most of the district becoming part of the new Townsville South Electorate. Mundingburra was re-created in the 1991 redistribution mostly in its current location.
Former teacher Lindy Nelson-Carr
won the seat back for Labor in 1998 contributing towards Labor being able to form a Minority Government under Peter Beattie
. Ms. Nelson-Carr was promoted in 2004 to Parliamentary Secretary for North Queensland, her portfolio was expanded in 2005 to include Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport and Main Roads.
The Electorate is now a safe Labor Party
seat, with Mundingburra going against the State wide trend of a slight swing against Labor at the most recent election, Ms. Nelson-Carr's margin is now 10.54%. In September 2006 Ms. Nelson-Carr was promoted to the Cabinet as Minister for Environment and Multiculturalism.
Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts
This is a list of current and former electoral divisions for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the state legislature for Queensland, Australia.-Districts in Far North Queensland:*Barron River*Cairns*Cook*Mulgrave*Dalrymple...
of the Legislative Assembly
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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 the Australia
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n state of Queensland
Queensland
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.
Overview
The seat is one of four within the TownsvilleTownsville, Queensland
Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland. Adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef, it is in the dry tropics region of Queensland. Townsville is Australia's largest urban centre north of the Sunshine Coast, with a 2006 census...
urban area in North Queensland. Significant utilities within the Mundingburra electorate are the Townsville Hospital
Townsville Hospital
The Townsville Hospital is a public tertiary care hospital in the city of Townsville and serves patients from the entire North Queensland region, with patients from as far as Mount Isa and Cape York being airlifted or transported to the Hospital on a daily basis. The hospital is relatively new and...
, the Douglas
Douglas, Queensland
Douglas is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia south of the Ross River and west of the city centre.Though mainly residential, it does contain James Cook University and the Townsville Hospital...
Campus of James Cook University
James Cook University
James Cook University is a public university based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The university has two Australian campuses, located in Townsville and Cairns respectively, and an international campus in Singapore. JCU is the second oldest university in Queensland—proclaimed in 1970—and the...
and Stockland Shoppingcentre
Stockland Townsville
Stockland Townsville Shopping Centre is located in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The shopping centre is often referred to simply "Stockland" or sometimes "Stockies" locally and is Townsville's largest shopping centre. In the early 1990s, Stockland Townsville opened as a major upgrade to what...
. Suburbs of the Electorate include; Heatley, Cranbrook
Cranbrook, Queensland
Cranbrook is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It one of many suburbs located within the Geographical Centre of the Urban area of Townsville, though it is located 8 km South-West of the Townsville CBD. It is close to the Aitkenvale Business District.-External links:*...
, Aitkenvale
Aitkenvale, Queensland
Aitkenvale is a suburb of Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. It is named after Thomas Aitken, the original grantee of Portion 38, Parish of Coonambelah. He began subdividing the property during the 1880s, putting 440 quarter-acre residential allotments on the market in 1885...
, Mundingburra
Mundingburra, Queensland
Mundingburra is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It is predominantly a residential suburb that is situated on the bank of the Ross River, adjacent to the suburb of Annandale...
, Vincent
Vincent, Queensland
Vincent is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It is a mostly residential suburb and borders Pimlico, Heatley, Gulliver and Aitkenvale.-External links:*...
, Douglas
Douglas, Queensland
Douglas is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia south of the Ross River and west of the city centre.Though mainly residential, it does contain James Cook University and the Townsville Hospital...
, Annandale
Annandale, Queensland
Annandale is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It borders the southern side of Ross River. It is the biggest suburb of Townsville and thus the most populated in the city...
, Gulliver
Gulliver, Queensland
Gulliver is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.-External links:*...
, Mysterton
Mysterton, Queensland
Mysterton is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It is predominantly residential, and is situated between the suburbs of Hermit Park, Mundingburra, and Rosslea....
, Rosslea, part of Kirwan
Kirwan, Queensland
Kirwan is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Kirwan includes parks, shopping, Kirwan State High School and private schools as well as the Riverway complex which has a great deal of entertainment from swimming, BBQ's and family outings to cultural events including an art gallery and...
and Pimlico
Pimlico, Queensland
For other uses, see Pimlico .Pimlico, is a suburb of Townsville, Australia. Townsville's largest private hospital, the Mater Misericordiae Hospital is located here. The local high school is Pimlico State High School....
north of the Ross River.
Mundingburra Electorate is bordered by the Burdekin
Electoral district of Burdekin
Burdekin is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia. Centred on the Ayr–Home Hill region, the electorate also includes some of Townsville's southern suburbs as well as the coal-mining town of Collinsville...
(South), Townsville
Electoral district of Townsville
The district of Townsville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland, and covers the Eastern and Northern suburbs of the City of Townsville as well as Magnetic Island and...
(North and East) and Thuringowa
Electoral district of Thuringowa
The district of Thuringowa is an electorate in the Legislative Assembly of the state of Queensland, Australia.The division encompasses suburbs of the former City of Thuringowa on the western edge of Townsville in North Queensland, stretching from Deeragun in the north to Kelso in the south...
(West) Electorates. With 28,145 voters, the Electorate has almost exactly the Queensland average however due to neighbouring Electorates being due for redistributions, the borders of the Mundingburra Electorate will probably change in the upcoming redistribution.
Mundingburra is currently a safe Labor Party
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...
seat, held by Hon Lindy Nelson-Carr MP
Lindy Nelson-Carr
Lindel Helena "Lindy" Nelson-Carr , an Australian Politician, has been the Queensland Government Minister for Communities, Disability Services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Partnerships, Multicultural Affairs, Seniors and Youth since September 2007 and has been the State Member for...
, Minister for Environment and Multiculturalism.
1996 by-election
The Mundingburra electoral district attracted national attention and headlines in early 1996 with a by-election called after the Court of Disputed Returns declared the result in the seat from July 1995 election void. The result had taken over a week to determine and ended up with the incumbent member, Ken DaviesKen Davies (politician)
Ken Davies is an Australian politician who represented the electoral district of Mundingburra, Queensland state, for the Labor Party. He was first elected in 1989. For six years, he was the head of the Parliamentary Criminal Justice Commission, and then was promoted to cabinet, in a junior...
of the Labor Party
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...
, winning by 16 votes. This gave the Goss
Wayne Goss
Wayne Keith Goss was Premier of Queensland from 7 December 1989 until 19 February 1996.-Early life:He was born at Mundubbera, Queensland and educated at Inala High School and the University of Queensland...
government a one-seat majority in Parliament - 45 seats to the Coalition
Coalition (Australia)
The Coalition in Australian politics refers to a group of centre-right parties that has existed in the form of a coalition agreement since 1922...
's 43 and one conservative-leaning independent, Liz Cunningham
Liz Cunningham
Elizabeth Anne "Liz" Cunningham is an Australian politician. She has been an independent member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 1995, representing the electorate of Gladstone...
. Davies was subsequently appointed as Minister for Emergency Services and Consumer Affairs.
The Liberals challenged the result in August and on 8 December, the court ordered a new election, partly on the basis that administrative difficulties had deprived several military personnel serving in Rwanda
United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
The United Nations Assistance Mission In Rwanda was a mission instituted by the United Nations to aid the implementation of the Arusha Accords, signed August 4, 1993, which were meant to end the Rwandan Civil War. The mission lasted from October 1993 to March 1996...
of their vote. It was generally understood that the fate of the Goss government likely rested on the result, and Goss himself was prominent in it, announcing amongst other things a A$
Australian dollar
The Australian dollar is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu...
1 billion Korean zinc smelter for Townsville and asking voters to end the uncertainty "bedevilling" the Queensland political system. An expected federal election in March 1996 where the unpopular Keating Government
Keating Government
The Hawke-Keating Government refers to the federal Executive Government of Australia of the Australian Labor Party from 1983 to 1996. The government was led initially by Bob Hawke as Prime Minister, who was succeeded by Paul Keating in 1991....
(also Labor) would face the voters was a key feature in the background.
Things became somewhat chaotic when Labor, on the basis of internal polling data and a legal case between Davies and the Commonwealth Bank, decided to dump Davies as its endorsed candidate, selecting Tony Mooney
Tony Mooney
Anthony John "Tony" Mooney AM is an Australian politician and was a City Councillor of the City of Townsville, Queensland from 1977 to 2008, and the Mayor from 1989 to 2008.-Overview:...
, the mayor of Townsville in his place. Davies reacted angrily, ultimately running as an independent and generating a considerable level of media publicity. A total of 12 candidates supporting a raft of causes ended up nominating by the draw of ballot papers on 12 January. On 25 January, Keating called the federal election for 2 March, which Goss described as an "outside distraction".
Contradictory polls generally suggested the Coalition would win, although a late poll by AGB McNair two days before polling day suggested Labor could still win. However, on the day, a swing of 2.83% to the Liberals saw their candidate Frank Tanti, a shop manager and committed Christian who had run a low-level doorknocking campaign for months, win the by-election. Within days, it became clear that Independent Liz Cunningham
Liz Cunningham
Elizabeth Anne "Liz" Cunningham is an Australian politician. She has been an independent member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 1995, representing the electorate of Gladstone...
would support the Coalition, and the Goss government resigned, allowing Rob Borbidge
Rob Borbidge
Robert Edward Borbidge AO , Australian politician, was the 35th Premier of Queensland, and leader of the Queensland branch of the National Party...
to form a minority government which lasted until the 1998 election. At that election, Labor, under Peter Beattie
Peter Beattie
Peter Douglas Beattie , Australian politician, was the 36th Premier of the Australian state of Queensland for nine years and leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state for eleven and a half years...
, won back both Mundingburra and governing party status.
General History
The 1911 redistribution created the seat of Mundingburra encompassing parts of the former electorates of Herbert and BowenElectoral district of Bowen
Bowen was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1873 to 1950 and at various times until 1992....
. In 1949 the Electoral district was moved to Townsville and was subsequently abolished in a 1959 redistribution with most of the district becoming part of the new Townsville South Electorate. Mundingburra was re-created in the 1991 redistribution mostly in its current location.
Former teacher Lindy Nelson-Carr
Lindy Nelson-Carr
Lindel Helena "Lindy" Nelson-Carr , an Australian Politician, has been the Queensland Government Minister for Communities, Disability Services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Partnerships, Multicultural Affairs, Seniors and Youth since September 2007 and has been the State Member for...
won the seat back for Labor in 1998 contributing towards Labor being able to form a Minority Government under Peter Beattie
Peter Beattie
Peter Douglas Beattie , Australian politician, was the 36th Premier of the Australian state of Queensland for nine years and leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state for eleven and a half years...
. Ms. Nelson-Carr was promoted in 2004 to Parliamentary Secretary for North Queensland, her portfolio was expanded in 2005 to include Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport and Main Roads.
The Electorate is now a safe Labor Party
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...
seat, with Mundingburra going against the State wide trend of a slight swing against Labor at the most recent election, Ms. Nelson-Carr's margin is now 10.54%. In September 2006 Ms. Nelson-Carr was promoted to the Cabinet as Minister for Environment and Multiculturalism.
Members for Mundingburra
| First incarnation (1912–1960) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Thomas Foley | 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... |
1912–1920 | |
| John Dash | 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... |
1920–1944 | |
| Tom Aikens | North Queensland Labor North Queensland Labor Party The North Queensland Labor Party was a minor political party in Australia from 1949 to 1974. The Party succeeded the Hermit Park Labor Party in 1949 and was succeeded by the North Queensland Party in 1974.... |
1944–1960 | |
| Second incarnation (1992–present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Ken Davies Ken Davies (politician) Ken Davies is an Australian politician who represented the electoral district of Mundingburra, Queensland state, for the Labor Party. He was first elected in 1989. For six years, he was the head of the Parliamentary Criminal Justice Commission, and then was promoted to cabinet, in a junior... |
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... |
1992–1995 | |
| Frank Tanti | Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office... |
1996–1998 | |
| Lindy Nelson-Carr Lindy Nelson-Carr Lindel Helena "Lindy" Nelson-Carr , an Australian Politician, has been the Queensland Government Minister for Communities, Disability Services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Partnerships, Multicultural Affairs, Seniors and Youth since September 2007 and has been the State Member for... |
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... |
1998–present | |
Election results
External links
- Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)