This weekend’s Tasmanian state election is likely to be the last major election in 2025, barely halfway through the year, but that means the rest of this year will be redistribution season.
Two federal redistributions, in Queensland and Tasmania, are set to resume later this month when Parliament returns. Federal redistributions in South Australia and the ACT are also due soon. I will return to this topic in the next few weeks.
But the first redistribution of 2025 is the state redistribution of Queensland. The last redistribution took place prior to the 2017 election, and those boundaries have now been used for three state elections – no other state holds redistributions so infrequently.
Submissions from the public are now open. They will close on August 6. The Commission has not set out precise dates for the rest of the process, but they expect the draft boundaries to be published in early 2026.
For this post, I am going to run through the current population statistics and what that suggests for where seats may shift. There has also been a lot of comments about this redistribution in the comments sections of Queensland 2024 seat guides – you can bring the conversation to this post.
The Queensland Redistribution Commission (QRC) has published their own helpful discussion paper that covers a lot of the same data I will be analysing here. It’s worth examining because it also runs through the criteria the Commission will need to consider.
In short, each electorate needs to fall within 10% of the average enrolment (or ‘quota’) as of May 2025. There is also a ‘large district number’ which means that electorates with a land mass of over 100,000 square kilometres are granted ‘notional electors’ equivalent to 2% of the square kilometres in their electorate.
Right now four seats benefit from these notional electors, and they make up the equivalent of 70% of an electorate. Three of these four seats are currently below the average quota even with those notional electors, with one of them more than 10% under. All three of those seats are projecting to be more than 10% under the quota by 2032. So it is likely that the land mass of these seats will grow. There are two other seats with a land mass of 70-80,000 square kilometres, so it’s possible another seat could benefit from this rule.
This produces a conundrum when it comes to calculating how big a seat should be. The ‘average’ is based on a total population divided by 93 seats. But the actual number of electors that can contribute to a seat’s enrolment is actually about 93.7 seats, likely to go up slightly more. So the average seat should be drawn to be slightly above the average.
The QRC has also published enrolment projections for June 2032. These don’t appear to carry the same weight as the current figures. Unlike in a federal redistribution, there is no requirement that every seat fall withins a certain range, but a sensible Commission would aim to draw the faster-growing districts with a smaller starting population. Mapmakers are often conservative and thus do the opposite, making minimalistic changes which leave the faster-growing areas with above-average enrolments, but they shouldn’t.
Further down in this post, I’ve posted a map showing how much each seat varies from the 2025 and 2032 quotas. But I’ve also summed up the totals for each geographical region of Queensland.
Where one seat is under quota and its neighbour is over quota, it is relatively easy to adjust the border without making more dramatic changes. But when whole regions are well under- or over-quota, that is when more significant shifts are required, and potentially could see seats abolished or new seats created.
The first two columns of data reflect how much each seat varies from the actual quotas. Those quotas do not factor in the notional electors in the large districts, although those notional electors are included in those seats’ fulfillment of the quotas. That explains why these numbers don’t add up to zero. The last two columns adjust the quota upwards to include the existing notional electors, but can’t take account of new notional electors created if those seats are made larger. They do add up to zero.
The seats of urban south-east Queensland are significantly over quota. If it weren’t for the large district allowance, I’d argue that we’d see a seat in the regions abolished and one created in the city, but that may not happen. By 2032, the 61 seats in this area are expected to contain almost 63 quotas of electors.
When we look at a closer level, we can see that Ipswich and the Sunshine Coast have grown the fastest, with Ipswich expected to have a lot more growth over the next seven years.
The southern half of Brisbane is a third of a seat under quota. One difference between my analysis and that of the QRC is that they have split out the suburbs on the southern fringe and northern fringe of Brisbane, and merged Brisbane City into one area. There are a handful of seats in southern Brisbane that are well over quota: Logan is particularly over quota, as is the neighbouring Jordan (included in Ipswich) and Coomera (included in Gold Coast). But more established southern suburbs are consistently under quota. Those seats will likely have to expand south to absorb the surplus population in Coomera, Jordan and Logan.
The northern half of Brisbane has grown faster, and this growth is more even, although Murrumba has grown very fast. While the Gold Coast is due to grow, the region currently has about the right number of voters for its eleven seats. Gaven is well under-quota, but Coomera has enough surplus voters to top it up.
The seats of regional Queensland are consistently under quota. The seats around Cairns are about in line with the quota, but seats further south will likely need to grow. The three Townsville seats are about a quarter of a seat short of the third quota, and are surrounded by other seats falling under quota.
Submissions will close in early August, and I am planning to make a podcast to discuss those submissions along with the federal redistributions. There are plenty of directions the Commission can go in, but it seems likely that seats in the urban areas surrounding Brisbane will get smaller, potentially with a new seat created on the southern or northern edge of Brisbane, and the regional seats will have to grow. But there are a range of options for how the map can be drawn.
Finally this map shows how much each seat deviates from the average, both in 2025 and the projected numbers for 2032.
Just finished everything from Warrego north of Maryborough.
Mirani ABOLISHED.
Second Mackay seat created (pioneer river) by moving Whitsundays in Burdekin. (Whitsundays renamed, Mirani abolished)
Cook takes all of Mareeba shire from Barron River.
Traegar moves halfway into Tableslands regional council and takes hills part of Mareeba Shire. Hill moves up to the zmulgrave River and is renamed Johnstone.
Thuringowa takes in a bit of hinchinbrook and loses suburbs south of Mill drive to Mudingburra. Il suggest that be renamed Ross.
Townsville takes in suburbs north of Charles Street and fullham road from mundiburra. Mundingburra takes in all of townsville from Burdekin.
Burdekin gains all of whisundays lga. And loses all of issacs to Gregory.
Mackay moves to the Mackay Ring Road
Pioneer river (Mirani) goes to Alligator Creek.
Keppel expands to take in the remainder of Livingstone shire from former Mirani and loses all of Rockhamptonto Rockhampton. Due to changes gonnna recommend rename to Fitzroy(river), Shoalhaven or Broad Sound.
Callide gains all of Miranis Rockhampton plus parts of Rockhampton to the airport, Murray and yeppen yeppen lagoon, along the railway line the across Arthur Street to Fitzroy River. Gonna need a rename due to callide probably no longer being appropriate. Loses all of gladstone to gladstone and all of bundaberg regional to Burnett. Loses everything east of inclusive of Wambo to Warrego.
Bundaberg expands along Windemere and rifle range road and Kinross memorial Park and takes in everything north to the ocean and the Burnett River. Loses everything north of the Burnett River including north Bundaberg as well everything south of silly oak Street to Burnett.
Though my Mirani still technically exists due to 297 electors and 306 projected electors that it still says exists but I can find where the SA1 is. Anyone know what area this corresponds too
Regional qld remainder.
Maryborough gains every south Shore Road east from Harvey Bay plus Kgari (Fraser island)
Gympie gains everything west of tinana Creek as well as everything south and west of the Mary River up to the Wangi state forest including oakhurst gardens estate up to sims and boundary road from maryborough
Nanango takes in everything south of Coles Creek and west of the Mary River.and south of wide Bay Creek from Gympie. Loses Somerset council to Glass house. And Toowoomba lga to Condamine.
Condamine loses everything south of Kingston Creek to southern downs
Toowoomba south gains Clifford racecourse and streets south of taylor St and West of torches Street from Toowoomba north.
Lockyer unchanged,
Sunshine Coast
Noosa gains everything north of the Bruce highway from Nicklin
Buderim gains area south of Sunshine motorway and Maroochydore road east of jones road from Ninderry. Change name to Peregian after Peregian Springs more populous suburb and or the mountain.
Maroochydore unchanged
Kawana gains allthe territory north of coonowin street then west of beerburrum Street from Caloundra
Glass house gains all of the territory from Caloundra west of the Bruce highway, south of bell’s creek, bells Creek arterial road and bells Creek road as well as all the territory south of sippy Downs creek from buderim
Nicklin gains all the territory north of kondallia Falls road from glass house as well as the territory west of the north coast line and north of eumundi Noosa road from ninderry
Change ninderry to peregian that is.
Also change Nanango to Barambah after the lake in the centre of the seat
Looking at the numbers provided the surplus is not actually ont the sunshine coast since glass house is actually a hybrid of moreton Bay and sunshine. I’ve managed to split this along the lga boundary and fit exactly 7 seats + Noosa. Moreton has enough for 9 however nanagos part of moreton has to go somewhere and with everything else done it has to attach to moreton Bay. So there will be a crossing with brisbane. Everton and ferny Grove already do this.
Looking at the numbers provided the surplus is not actually ont the sunshine coast since glass house is actually a hybrid of moreton Bay and sunshine. I’ve managed to split this along the lga boundary and fit exactly 7 seats + Noosa. Moreton has enough for 9 however nanagos part of moreton has to go somewhere and with everything else done it has to attach to moreton Bay. So there will be a crossing with brisbane. Everton and ferny Grove already do this.
Nanagos part of smoerset that should read
Interesting insights John, thanks.
My plan in approximately 100 words: Burdekin and Callide are abolished, Mundingburra replaced by Mandligun (Townsville–Home Hill) and major changes to Trager and Gregory as previously flagged. Rockhampton regains suburbs; Burnett expands inland, Bundaberg touches the sea. A new regional seat spans southern Bundaberg to K’Gari. Nanango shifts north; Warrego moves south-east. Condamine rotates and re-centres on Dalby and Chinchilla. Toohey is abolished; Greenbank created. On the Gold Coast, Coomera’s overflow is resolved; Burleigh is replaced by Robina. A new seat west of Caboolture absorbs parts of Glass House to manage Sunshine Coast growth.
i manged to do most of it with just top ups but with moreton bay the growth areas are in the wrong places so ive had to competely rework Pine Rivers, Kurwongbah, Morayfield along with all the excess quotas to form 4 seats but my new seat will also be west of caboolture when im done. i managed to form one seat from the moreton bay parts of everton and ferny grove to stop the boundary cross there. althought i may have to cross it somewhere as my pine rivers is short of a quota. even with nanangos somerset parts. i might leave moreton bay until last to see if i cant prevent that. what ive done is paired the part of somerset from nanango with the western parts of pine rivers and there does seem to be an access road through there along with the lookout over the dam so that seem justifiable including all or the pine lakes etc to lilly and ira buckby roads and then thrown in the main lake body from kurwongbah to make a seat. for this ive suggest they either leave the name as pine rivers or change it to Wivenhoe
@NP ive kept Glass House as a solely Sunshine COast seat after shedding its Moreta=on bay parts it can take in the surplus from Caloundra and Bancroft.
I wanted to abolish Gaven also and create Nerang but after starting from the nsw border and moving north all the other seats except Coomer an Theodore are already at quota before i even touched Nernag leaving Mermaid beach as is even though i put almost all of Robina in it
Gold Coast
i wanted to leave Boardwater it it was but im gonna make asmall minor adjustment remving Helensvale which i want to unti in one seta instead of 4 so in removed it from broadwater and extended broawater south to Brisbane Road and along Biggera Creek Helens vale now its only split across 2 seats.
Currumbin moves up to Palm Beach and Fourth avenues.
BUrleigh takes in all of Burleigh Waters then along Bardon Aven south of the golf club down dawn parade and santa monica road
Mermaid Water takes in all of Robina south of Mudgeeraba Creek and all of CLear ISland Waters from Surfers Paradise expands north along Slatyer avenue Heeb street asmoore road and robb street
this also brings surfers paradise to quota
Mudgeeraba the moves up to Nielsen Road and the pacific motorway also takes a small part of Coomer along coomera river
bonney takes in all of southport from southport becoming teh new southprt
the old southport takes in everything west of olsen avenue from bonney everythin east of the pacific motorway from gaven and west of benowna road from Surfers Paradise calling this new seat AShmore
Broadwater shedding helens vales and gaining harbour town from bonney
Gaven expands North along the coomera river. upper coomera and the pacific motorway i dont like the name gaven or its namesake so im renaimin it Pacific Pines but il put Nerang down as an alternative
Theodore move in to Coomera along the coomera and pimpana rivers and the pacific motorway. renamed Pimpana
Coomera takes in the rest of theodore west of the motorway.
correct that part about nerang i didnt fi the curent elector problem in surfers paradise and bonney so need to my bad
redlands city
along the parts of redlands in Sprinwood Redlands city will fit perfectly into 3 seats
Capabala gains everythin west of main road south of birkdale road and east of thomas street from Oodgeroo
Oodgeroo gets everythin north or Eprabah Creek from Redlands renaming suggestions Thornlands
Redlands gains everything south of Redland bay road, east of ney road and south of macquarie street from Capabala redlands gain the remainder of Redland City from Springwood
Agree about Redland Council fitting neatly into 3 seats (Capalaba, Oodgeroo and Redlands). Last redistribution there were many objections about putting some outer suburbs (Mt Cotton and Sheldon) into Springwood so by removing these suburbs and pushing Springwood either west across the Pacific Motorway (into Waterford) or south towards Macalister/Beenleigh would be reflect a better community of interest.
i just proved it doable and given the defeciet in redlands citits 3 seats they wont have a choice this time
Logan
given the defeceit in the north and the surplus in the north long with the weird shaped dvisions caused by the river and the pacific motorway among other tings gonna have to do a major remodel here
Springwood gain all of Logan holme to the logan rive from Waterford, gains all of Macallister North of the Pacific Motorway, everything east of Beaudesert-Beenleigh road up along hammel and boundary street along logan street and city road to to the pacific highway from Macallister loses everything west of Disy Hill Road and north of Daisy Hill Conservation Park. Springwood is now outside the seat and needs to be renamed gonna go with Eagleby
Macalister gains everything east of the Logan River from Waterford and Logan down to george Philip Drive down Carabeen and yore Road east along stockleigh road down waterford tamborin road all the way down to the albert river will suggest renaming to Albert. Waterford loses everythin west o fth logan river to Woodridge.
Logan takes in everything south of slacks creek, scrubby creek mary street the gold coast line jacaranda avenue ashton street and webley road and west of bardon road from Woodridge along with all the city of Logan from Algester. and everything east of the Brisbane – Sydney railway line from Jordan
name suggestion for Woodridge given the major changes are Slacks Creek and Rochedale South.
Jordan gains everything west f mount Lindesay highway down to the logan river at south mclean from Logan
Logan splits in two along gren orad up through powell park east along browns plains and machow and kingston roads. the southern seat maintains the logan name and the new northerth seat named either Marsden or Regents Park
Jordan loses small part of brisbane north of Johnson road to algester and loses parts of Springfield centrl and centenery highway and down springfield greenbank arterial sprinfield central boulevard grande avenua tallowood street woodlin drive to the sringwood conservation estate but not inclusive to Bundumba bellbird park alon redbank plains road Kruger parade to include all of goodna in Jordan
@yoh an im just gonna gut the logan seats and start from scratch
gonna rename jordan Springfield as thats where the growth of the seat is and thats what its centred on
South Brisbane
Llyton expands along Wynnum road up creek road along llyton and canslie roads from bulimba
Chatsworth takes in everything east of boundary road from greenslopes, takes in everything east of creek road and seven hills bushland from bulimba
Bulimba takes in everything east of woolamgaba creek and north of old cleveland road from greenslopes
Greenslopes takes in everything west of creek road from mansfield
Mansfield takes in everything south of pine Mountain road from chatsworth along with everything north of pastoral road and east of mains road from toohey
Miller takes in everything south of the Port of Brisbane railway line from south brisbane and then everything north of riawena and kessels road from toohey. Loses everything west of oxley creek to mount omnamey. Renamed tarragindi due to significant changes.
Stretton takes in everything else from toohey. Renamed sunnybank
Algester takes in the small bit of territory from the city of Brisbane from Jordan and everything south of Compton road from stretton to the Logan boundary and sheds its parts of Logan to the Logan based seats.
Inala gains everything south of the main rail line and then along englefield road from Mount omananey.
I’ve had a lot of success reworking Gaven by renaming it back to Nerang and bundling it with the localities that share the old 4211 postcode with it, including the rural Hinterland suburbs that have historically used Nerang as their principal community of interest (and are dotted along the old Nerang-Murwillumbah corridor): Numinbah Valley, Advancetown, Gilston. It still had room leftover to absorb the rest of other urban localities that share the 4211 postcode. Including Pacific Pines from Theodore and Carrara from Mudgeeraba.
Shedding Pacific Pines from Theodore allowed a lot of room for Theodore to migrate Northwards and capture Upper Coomera from the very large Coomera. I also assigned Wongawallan to Theodore – who typically use Upper Coomera as their principal community of interest.
I carved Coomera down into something resembling more like a “Pimpama”. It no longer had any of Upper Coomera inside of it. East of the Pacific Motorway, I let it creep South to absorb all of the Coomera (now starting to be colloquially referred to as “Foxwell” by locals) SA1s.
To continue a similar practice I’ve established in the divisions like Currumbin, Mudgeeraba, Nerang (new), I have Coomera connected to some Hinterland localities like Kingsholme and Willow Vale.
I then shed everything in Coomera that was north of the Pimpama River including Jacobs Well, Alberton, Ormeau, Ormeau Hills, Yatala, Stapylton into a majorly reworked Macalister.
The new Macalister was inspired mostly by the old Albert shire LGA – with Beenleigh & Eagleby centered in on as the principal communities of interest. It now encroaches back into the Gold Coast LGA to reunite it with its historic connected localities like the aforementioned Jacobs Well, Ormeau, etc.
To make this possible, I had to transfer the parts Macalister east of the Pacific Motorway and North of the Logan River over to Springwood.
What I am currently working on is a new division that I’ve created encompassing Logan Village, Yarrabilba and Jimboomba as their primary communities of interest. The Beaudesert-Beenleigh Rd corridor including Windaroo, Bahrs Scrub, Wolfdenne, Bannockburn and Belivah also sit in this new division. Edens-Landing and Holmview will be split between Macalister and Waterford.
With Logan, I’ve been shifting the boundaries west to center primarily on Greenbank and Flagstone, but also including Munruben and Maclean. It really deserves a new name with these boundaries. This has trimmed a lot of localities in Jordan, which has about the right size of electors when principally focused on the Springfield area.
I think Algester is going to have to be dragged southwards to focus on Browns Plains as a major center which acts a center of gravity for suburbs in both Brisbane and Logan LGA. This will force Stretton and Inala to absorb territory from parts of Algester in the Brisbane LGA. Which will then force the under-quota established middle-ring Brisbane South suburbs to expand further southwards.
Still got a lot more work to do on the South side.
@Angas I’m prepared to not split SA1s because in almost every case the SA1s work out better. Just accept that the numbers won’t be perfect and any attempt at forecasting growth is unlikely to make it to the next redistribution. I’m trying to overcompensate for areas that are significantly under and undercompensate for those that are significantly over.
FYI Almost all of the names that were changed last time, particularly those that were named after people, are going back to geographic areas. I’m also tempted to add an observation for the QRC that having them add changes after the draft “out of whole cloth” that reduce the ability to comment is unacceptable.
@John Springwood can be fixed by taking the protrusion from Waterford along Logan Road and stretching it to the BCC/LCC boundary along Millers Road and then adding in the Moss Street area at Slacks Creek. That area on the western side of the freeway is permeable due to the corridors at Underwood Road, Springwood Road and down to Compton Road, even as far as the entirety of Slacks Creek east of Kingston Road. Effectively Springwood could straddle the M1.
Historically the boundary between Mansfield and Springwood has been the council boundary, except for one brief change when the area north of Underwood Road in Logan went into Mansfield.
@mark ive just made my own new seats based entirely within logan, sometimes its better to just knock the whole thing over and strat again. logan now does not cross into either brisbane or redlands city. both citiies are entirely contained within their lgas. it does hoever cross into ipswhc since its short of a full 6 quotas.
in regards to ipswich ive decide just to weight the seats so they fit within the reuired 10% deviation on current numbers rather then have to mess up lockyer. or cross the brisbane river.we’ll just kick that can down the road for 2032. as they seem to have done last redistribution same with the gc. and ive done the same with Caloundra because given the projected growth vs actual numbers i couldnt see any other way
in regards to strettona nd toohey i have abolished both by giving the northern parts of tohey to miller and the southern parts of Stretton to Algester which has shed its parts of logan city. the southern parts of toohey and the northern parts of streton ive joined together to reform sunnybank. as an east west seat
@John
Am I reading correctly that you’re planning to split Greater Springfield in a similar way to how it’s currently split between Blair and Oxley? I would hope that can be avoided – it may have made sense 10-20 years ago when there were nothing south of that boundary, but Spring Mountain is a core part of Greater Springfield with a significant population nowadays.
I haven’t played around with the numbers myself, but I would want to see Jordan (or “Springfield”) retain all of Greater Springfield (Springfield, Springfield Lakes, Springfield Central, Spring Mountain, Augustine Heights, and Brookwater) and then get to a quota through some combination of the other 4300 suburbs. Another seat (perhaps Logan, perhaps a new seat) should then ideally unite Greenbank and Flagstone.
2 days from a state election in tas and all the talk is about QlDs state redistribution.
Yes believe me I wanted to put it all in one seat but it’s probably not possible this time around it’s smack bang in the middle of a growth corridor between Ipswich Ipswich west Jordan and Logan. I did however managed to removed the rest of Ipswich from scenic rim and that puts it at quota on both counts. It’s anessary evil this time around die to the numbers available. If I could have I would have. With federally I do intend to try and put all of spring field into oxley when that starts shortly the numbers there are more promising given all the seats to the east need to make up numbers and Blair is in surplus.
I’m pretty sure I’ve got all of flagstone and greenbank in Jordan or Springfield as I’m calling it
Jordan would probably end up like coomera come 2032 otherwise
If it is a necessary evil to split Greater Springfield, I would still try to avoid using the SGA, and at least keep everything south of the Centenary Highway united.
Agree Nicholas, the preferred dividing line would be Opossum Creek/Springfield Parkway to keep all of Springfield/Springfield Lakes and Spring Mountain united. Augustine Heights and Brookwater, whilst still sharing some links to Springfield may be alright to be combined with Redbank Plains in an outer Ipswich district.
im just following the numbers
i can confirm that i have both flagstone and greenbank in Jordan though
north brisbane
nudgee takes in every south of beams road and south of rogham road and east of handford road from Sandgate
Sandgate takes in everything north of Roghan road from Aspley
Aspley sheds the remainder of Moreton Bay to Everton while taking in the remainder of Brisbane from Everton near Albany Creek it also takes in everything north of hamilton road and west of webster road thats north of rode road
Stafford takes in everything north of Kedron Brook from Clayfield and everything east of south pine and old northern road from Everton
Ferny grove take in the remainder of the city of brisbane along the creek from Everton and sheds its parts of morton bay to everton and gains all of the gap and the enoggera resoivr from Cooper renamed Enoggera
given everton park is now split between everton and stafford im wanting to rename everton to either South Pine or Bunyaville
Cooper gains everygthing north of the main railway lines up to Countess street up to the railway line then everything north of that west of bowen bridge road then everything north of milton road and east of Mount Cootha from Maiwar renamed Paddington due to changes and a division of Cooper already existng at a federal level i considered Victoria Park and Bardon but Victoria Park already exists in WA and Bardon sounds too similat to Barton. Ashgrove might be another but thats already been used before.
Maiwar gains everything east of Bilby road and everthing down to the corner of marshall lane and kersley road
@Darth Vader – it has been a great lesson on geography I haven’t looked at maps so closely!
Agreed Craig.
@everyone ned an opinion on CoI for qld.after doing north Brisbane i ended up with about 2/3 of a qouta excess and an excess in western Moreton. Ay. Is there a community of interest argument using the western parts of moggill, nanagos parts of Somerset, enoggera reservoir, low oodgeroo sa1 ending 8121 and western parts of pine rivers or do i just maintain the crossing in everton/ferny Grove?
That should of eead lowood sa1 8121 not low oodgeroo (autocorrect)
Correct that just the western parts of moggill and the western parts of pine rivers connected by ennogger resevoir
I can speak for Moggill out to Karana Downs (not up the LGA border and Lake Manchester) that the community of interest is very much with in to Moggill, Kenmore etc, with Karalee and into Ipswich a reasonably close second. Most people there wouldn’t even know there are places called Lowood or Dayboro. I can’t say whether there’s a community of interest between those towns and each other or Esk-Kilcoy.
I have more or less finished my submission.
Seats abolished: Burdekin, Burleigh, Callide, Ferny Grove, Toohey
Seats created (or re-created): Ashgrove, Burrum, Greenbank, Robina, Stanley
New names for old seats: Amberley, Carindale, Carrara, Logan (applied to a different seat), Marsden, Mandilgun, Nerang, Pimpama, Sunnybank, Tallebudgera, Warwick, Yarrabilla
@John, given you can’t drive from the western part of Moggill to the western part of Pine Rivers without passing through another electorate, I would have thought the community of interest was minimal at best. I’m not sure if it’s even possible to drive from Moggill to Cooper.
Moggill to Cooper is possible, via Gap Creek Road (which cuts through the back side of Mt Coot-Tha). But I agree with you point.
Real Talk interested in Warwick, I would have thought given it has to expand, the name would make even less sense. I’m intrigued what you did with it, I didn’t want to cross the range or the Towoomba region boundary, so I took in St George.
The creation of Warwick resulted from a cascade of changes triggered by abolishing Callide. Dalby, Chinchilla, and Miles shifted to Condamine, which forced Warrego to expand north to Blackall and south-east to Goondiwindi. Southern Downs was reshaped to follow the New England Highway from Stanthorpe to Cambooya and Pittsworth, while Condamine now runs westward along the Warrego Highway, no longer circling Toowoomba. Though the new Condamine bears little resemblance to its predecessor, the name remains appropriate. I renamed Southern Downs to Warwick to reflect the fact that the Southern Downs LGA is now split between Warwick and Warrego.
Pretty much done . Everything within quota but Moreton Bay seats all around 7-8%
Landsborough created – LB, Beerwah, Aura estate
Greenbank created – GB, Flagstone, Ripley estate
Toohey/Stretton abolished – becomes Sunnybank
Mundingburra/Thuringowa abolished – becomes Townsville south
Thanks was just interested in clarifying it. So i can make alternative arrangements
my ipswich west takes in all of rural ipswich from scenic rim bringing that back to quota and then all of ripley from Ipswich up to the deebing creek north along the bremer river then loses everything north of the warrego and brisbane valley highways to moggil
finally Moreton Bay
this one took a bit of playing around to get decent solid boundaries with the right numbers
Pine Rivers gains everything south of gordons crossing and francis road alond with everything east of isis road to the north pine river to the north coast railway line from kurwongbah
Murrumba gains everything west of elizabeth avenueup boardman road and everything west of jabiru and kingfisher canal from redcliffe and everything east of the north coast railway line from pine rivers as well as every east of coman street thats notrh of deception bay road from bancroft
Kurwongbah gains everything south of the jubilee way from Bancroft and everything north of anzac avenue to th bruce highway from murumba everything north of the north pine river from pine rivers + plus Mount Pleasnat sa1
morayfield takes in everything north of oakey flat and new settlement roads as well as everything north of burpendary creek thats west of oaket flat road from
a new seat is then created from Morayfield northern territory including all of somerset from Nanango all of Moreton Bay Lga from glass house all of pumicestone west of beerburrum road and all of Morayfield north of the Caboolture river. this seat is named Caboolture
corercting some mised bits theodore and gavena re abolised Pimpana extend from the pacific motorway to the pimpana river and takes in alt the territory south of the pimpana river west of the coomera river formerly in coomera all the way down to the gold coast highway and takes in the part of Helens vale from Broadwater
Coomera takes in everything north of the Coomera river from Gaven and Theodore
Nerang extends west of the pacific motorway to everything south of the coomera river
Surfers paradise takes in everything south of Slatyer avenue being the border o Southport