Electoral district of Yeerongpilly
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The district of Yeerongpilly is a Legislative Assembly
electorate
the state
of Queensland
. Named for the suburb with the same name
, the electorate was renamed before the 2001 elections, from the previous name of Yeronga
. While only one of the three Yeronga members were Labor
, the seat has been considered a strong Labor electorate since the renaming. The district's two members have both been from the Labor Party, and Simon Finn
, the current member, was elected in the 2004 election.
and Oxley Creek to the north and west, while the electoral districts of Greenslopes
, Mansfield
, South Brisbane
and Sunnybank
border it on the east and south. The division includes suburbs in Brisbane
's inner south, including Annerley
, Fairfield
, Moorooka
, Nathan
, Rocklea
, Salisbury
, Tarragindi
, Yeronga
, and Yeerongpilly
. Many landmarks, including the Nathan campus of Griffith University
and the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre
fall in the electorate.
, the 2006 Census by the Australian Bureau of Statistics
is the main source of information relating to the electorate. At the time of the 2006 census, the median age was thirty-five, as opposed to the state average of thirty-six. 69.5% of residents were born in Australia, below the state average of 75.2%. The percentage of Catholicism
and Irreligion
followers is in line with state averages, yet Anglicanism
is somewhat less. At 27.4%, the percentage of professionals as an occupation was considerably higher than both the state average, 17.1%, and the national average, 19.8%. The percentage of labourers and managers, however, were lower than the national averages. The median income of the district is similar to the rest of the nation. The suburb of Yeerongpilly is noted for its large Asian population, and the district's Sudan
ese-born population is twelve times the national average.
, with the Liberal Party's
Winston Noble holding the seat for fourteen years. Norman Lee
, also of the Liberal party, then held the seat until 1989. Matt Foley
of the Labor party then won the seat. In 2001, the seat was renamed to Yeerongpilly. At the 2004 state election, Matt Foley chose not to run for the seat again, with Simon Finn taking his place in the seat. In the 2006 redistribution, the suburbs of Archerfield
, Coopers Plains, Queensland
and Tennyson
were lost, yet the suburbs of Fairfield
, Terragindi and Wellers Hill were gained.
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...
electorate
Electoral district
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the state
States and territories of Australia
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of 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...
. Named for the suburb with the same name
Yeerongpilly, Queensland
Yeerongpilly is a suburb of in Brisbane, Australia. It is 8 km south of the Brisbane central business district.Yeerongpilly is derived from the Aboriginal words "yarung" meaning sandy or gravelly or "yurong" meaning rain and "pilly" meaning gully or watercourse.Yeerongpilly grew from an area...
, the electorate was renamed before the 2001 elections, from the previous name of Yeronga
Electoral district of Yeronga
Yeronga was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 2001.The district was based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Yeronga.-Members for Yeronga:...
. While only one of the three Yeronga members were 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...
, the seat has been considered a strong Labor electorate since the renaming. The district's two members have both been from the Labor Party, and Simon Finn
Simon Finn (politician)
Simon David Finn was first elected to the seat of Yeerongpilly in the Queensland State Parliament on 7 February 2004. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party....
, the current member, was elected in the 2004 election.
Geography
Yeerongpilly is bordered by the Brisbane RiverBrisbane River
The Brisbane River is the longest river in south east Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay. John Oxley was the first European to explore the river who named it after the Governor of New South Wales, Thomas Brisbane in 1823...
and Oxley Creek to the north and west, while the electoral districts of Greenslopes
Electoral district of Greenslopes
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, Mansfield
Electoral district of Mansfield
The district of Mansfield is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane. It is named for the suburb of Mansfield and also includes the suburbs of Burbank, Rochedale and Wishart...
, South Brisbane
Electoral district of South Brisbane
The district of South Brisbane is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. The electorate encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's inner-south, stretching from East Brisbane to West End, and south to Fairfield...
and Sunnybank
Electoral district of Sunnybank
The district of Sunnybank is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the area of southern suburbs of Brisbane previously named as the suburb of Sunnybank before Sunnybank was broken up into smaller suburbs...
border it on the east and south. The division includes suburbs in Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
's inner south, including Annerley
Annerley, Queensland
Annerley is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 6 km south of the Brisbane CBD. It was named after a town in England.-Geography:Much of the suburb is elevated, lying on a ridge that gives views of the city...
, Fairfield
Fairfield, Queensland
Fairfield is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 5 km south of the Brisbane CBD on the Brisbane River. The suburb is mainly residential with house and unit accommodation.-Geography:...
, Moorooka
Moorooka, Queensland
Moorooka is a suburb of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. Bordering with Toohey Forest Park, it is seven kilometres south of Brisbane's central business district...
, Nathan
Nathan, Queensland
Nathan is a southern suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It was named in 1967 after Sir Matthew Nathan, Governor of Queensland from 1920 to 1926.Nathan is home to Toohey Forest Conservation Park, Griffith University's Nathan campus and the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre which hosted the opening...
, Rocklea
Rocklea, Queensland
The large Brisbane suburb of Rocklea is located 12 kilometres south of the city. At times the suburb has experienced significant flooding from the nearby Brisbane River. The west of the suburb is bordered by the Oxley Creek....
, Salisbury
Salisbury, Queensland
Salisbury is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is south of the Brisbane central business district.Salisbury was named after the residence of William Coote, an early Brisbane journalist and political figure, who lived in the area....
, Tarragindi
Tarragindi, Queensland
Tarragindi is a suburb on the southern side of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is represented through the Holland Park and Moorooka Ward councillors on the Brisbane City Council.-Origin of the name:...
, Yeronga
Yeronga, Queensland
Yeronga is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located on the Brisbane River 7 km south of the Brisbane CBD. Yeronga is a residential suburb. It is home to the Yeronga Devils.-Transport:There is a Yeronga train station on the Beenleigh railway line....
, and Yeerongpilly
Yeerongpilly, Queensland
Yeerongpilly is a suburb of in Brisbane, Australia. It is 8 km south of the Brisbane central business district.Yeerongpilly is derived from the Aboriginal words "yarung" meaning sandy or gravelly or "yurong" meaning rain and "pilly" meaning gully or watercourse.Yeerongpilly grew from an area...
. Many landmarks, including the Nathan campus of Griffith University
Griffith University
Griffith University is a public, coeducational, research university located in the southeastern region of the Australian state of Queensland. The university has five satellite campuses located in the Gold Coast, Logan City and in the Brisbane suburbs of Mount Gravatt, Nathan and South Bank. Current...
and the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre
Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre
The Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre , more commonly known by its former names ANZ Stadium or QE II, is a major sporting facility on the south side of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia...
fall in the electorate.
Demographics
As redistributions alter an electorate's area and demographic profileDemographics
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, the 2006 Census by the Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's national statistical agency. It was created as the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics on 8 December 1905, when the Census and Statistics Act 1905 was given Royal assent. It had its beginnings in section 51 of the Constitution of Australia...
is the main source of information relating to the electorate. At the time of the 2006 census, the median age was thirty-five, as opposed to the state average of thirty-six. 69.5% of residents were born in Australia, below the state average of 75.2%. The percentage of Catholicism
Catholicism
Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
and Irreligion
Irreligion
Irreligion is defined as an absence of religion or an indifference towards religion. Sometimes it may also be defined more narrowly as hostility towards religion. When characterized as hostility to religion, it includes antitheism, anticlericalism and antireligion. When characterized as...
followers is in line with state averages, yet Anglicanism
Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English...
is somewhat less. At 27.4%, the percentage of professionals as an occupation was considerably higher than both the state average, 17.1%, and the national average, 19.8%. The percentage of labourers and managers, however, were lower than the national averages. The median income of the district is similar to the rest of the nation. The suburb of Yeerongpilly is noted for its large Asian population, and the district's Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
ese-born population is twelve times the national average.
History
The electorate of Yeronga was formed in 1950Queensland state election, 1950
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 29 April 1950 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was seeking its seventh continuous term in office since the 1932 election; it would be Premier Ned Hanlon second election.The Assembly had...
, with the Liberal Party's
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...
Winston Noble holding the seat for fourteen years. Norman Lee
Norman Lee
-Selected filmography:Director* The Streets of London * Strip, Strip, Hooray * The Pride of the Force * The Outcast * Doctor's Orders * Spring in the Air * A Political Party...
, also of the Liberal party, then held the seat until 1989. Matt Foley
Matt Foley
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of the Labor party then won the seat. In 2001, the seat was renamed to Yeerongpilly. At the 2004 state election, Matt Foley chose not to run for the seat again, with Simon Finn taking his place in the seat. In the 2006 redistribution, the suburbs of Archerfield
Archerfield, Queensland
Archerfield is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Australia. Archerfield is a sparsely populated suburb, with most of the land being occupied by Archerfield Airport.-Airport:...
, Coopers Plains, Queensland
Coopers Plains, Queensland
Coopers Plains is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is south-west of the CBD.-Transport:Coopers Plains railway station provides access to regular Citytrain services to Brisbane, Beenleigh and Gold Coast. There are many buses passing Coopers Plains, which are 120 , 135 , 123 , 598 and 599...
and Tennyson
Tennyson, Queensland
Tennyson is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 7 km south of the CBD on the Brisbane River.The area was originally named Softstone by James Strong, one of the original settlers, but by 1897 the name was changed to Tennyson. Tennyson is named after the British poet Alfred Tennyson.The...
were lost, yet the suburbs of Fairfield
Fairfield, Queensland
Fairfield is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 5 km south of the Brisbane CBD on the Brisbane River. The suburb is mainly residential with house and unit accommodation.-Geography:...
, Terragindi and Wellers Hill were gained.
Members for Yeerongpilly
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Foley Matt Foley (Australian politician) The Hon. Matthew Joseph "Matt" Foley is a former Australian politician. Before entering politics, he was a barrister and social worker, and sub-dean of the Social Work Faculty at Queensland University 1981–1983... |
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 | |
| Simon Finn Simon Finn (politician) Simon David Finn was first elected to the seat of Yeerongpilly in the Queensland State Parliament on 7 February 2004. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party.... |
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... |
2004–present | |
Results
External links
- Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)