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.
ive also now adjusted it so that all of springfield remains in Jrdan jordan also takes in everythgin east of radbank plains road and queens street from Ipswich and ispwich keeps ripley instead of giving it to ipswich west.
macalister is abolished waterford becomes albert
jordan then sheds the parts of logan and the new seat is basically springfield and everythgin east of radbank plains road and queens street from Ipswich though it loses everything east of old logan road thats south of addison to get jordan over the line
the ipswich seat is called Springfield and the Logan seat is Greenbank
Based on these boundaries the libs would be competitive in Logan Eagleby maybe Albert and Greenvale but Marsden Slacks Creek would become safer for labor edlands 3 seats would be safer for the lnp. Crandon in coomera so he may choose to retire to help the lnp get anew member while they’re on top. Gaven or Nerang would be a notional lnp seat. Keppel would be lost to Labor however kapok onp might be able to win it. Rockingham would be safer in all but a bad year. Callide would go from being very safe to safe and Bundaberg would likely be notionally lnp. Caboolture would be won by the lnp. Labor would probably lose pine rivers and faced reduced margins in kurwong ah and murrumba but increase it in Morayfied. Aspley would not longer be aultra marginal seat but just marginal for labor. Everton and clayfield would be safer for the lnp and stsfford more competitive. The lnp would be good odds to win back maiwar.
I’d say dick would run in Marsden and fentimen would run in Slacks Creek given these would be the safest seats. de brani in eagleby and McMahon in Albert Mullen in springfield power in logan and if they were determined to keep all the current mps in a seat Enoch to greenbank martin to algester and Russo in the reformed sunnybank his old seat. Although he may retire given his age to make it easier on Labor.
The lnp would be alot more difficult since the abolished seat is in nq and the new one in Moreton Bay. Mirani mp would have glen Kelly would have to challenge either Amanda camm in pioneer river or Nigel hutton in Keppel or maybe even bryson head in callide depending on which voters he would choose to follow. Glass house mp Andrew powell could choose to stay in the Sunshine seat of Glass house or move to the new Moreton Bay seat of Caboolture
Out of interest John, and I assume you’re using Angus’s tool to calculate and configure your seats, how many electors have shifted seats?
You can find this at the very top of the left hand panel of the tool, under the heading ‘Queensland State Redistribution Tool’.
I’ve managed to shift 1,123,773 electors, or 30.01% of the state.
Just for giggles, I tried drawing a map with Gregory abolished. Traeger extends from Mount Isa to the NSW border, Callide sweeps from Emerald to Maryborough and is a large seat. The big surprise is Thuringowa, which is forced to expand rapidly to the west and take in Charters Towers. Of course I won’t be handing this in as a serious submission, but it’s a perfectly legal map.
By that argument I can put parts of caloundra and ispeic it on trader and Gregory to make them smaller. It’s perfectly legal
I’d have to redo it as I went through a full map at the library but it was around 25% i think
@Darth, so long as it’s contiguous.
Where does it say that?
It should also be noted sa1 31201133812 broadband-nebo is in both Burdekin and mirani
In regards to Mirani I’ve calculated that 35% go to whitsunday now pioneer river. 10% to mackay 25% to callide and 30% to Keppel. Burdekin consists of 65% from Burdekin and 35% from whitsunday so the Burdekin name remains. Pioneer river was 65% whitsunday 35% Mirani but because the name is longer in seat a new name is needed and I’ve chosen pioneer river.
After gregory gains issac council from Burdekin its too big on current electors so it sheds Boulia and wintin shire to traegar this puts traegar at the very edge on current numbers but almost level on projected enrollment.
Caboolture consists of 24% nanango 11% pumicestone 35% morayfield 30% glass house.
Glass house works out to 58% glass house 27% Caloundra 15%Buderim so glass house can stay
Interestingly my redlands has 40265 voters in it just 1 off the avg enrollment 40264
Eagleby is 60 % Macalister 25% springwood and 15% waterford so it might be justifiable to hold the Macalister name still.
Redlands takes in 24% of springwood
Slacks Creek is 51% springwood, 29% waterford and 20% woodridge. Possible to retain the name Springwood.
Albert is 40% macalister 17% waterford and 43% Logan
Marsden is 61% woodridge 39% waterford however woodridge is outside the boundary so wouldn’t be suitable choice.
Logan 27% woodridge 20% algester 53% logan
Greenbank 38% Jordan 42% Logan 20% algester
Springfield 83% Jordan 17% bundamba
Mansfield is 7% Chatsworth 17% Toohey and 76% Mansfield
Miller 63% miller 8% south brisbane 29% toohey
Sunnybank works out to about 56% Stretton 44% toohey but since both namesakes are gone a new name is needed.
Overall I’ve moved 854,556 or 22.82% of electors
Seats abolished: Mirani, Toohey.
Seats created: Caboolture, Greenbank
Seats renamed: Hill (Johnstone), Whitsunday (Pioneer River), Keppel (Shoalwater), Nanango (Barambah), Ninderry (Peregian), Everton (Bunyaville), Ferny Grove (Enoggera), Cooper (Paddington), Jordan (Springfield), Miller (Tarragindi), Woodridge (Marsden), Waterford (Albert), Springwood (Slacks Creek), Macalister (Eagleby), Oodgeroo (Thornlands), Bonney (Ashmore), Gaven (Nerang), Theodore (Pimpana)
A great summary John, and thoroughly laid out in detail. It will be interesting to see which way other pundits go with their submission, as well as the commission itself when they release their draft.
Darth, I don’t think I need to explain in the year 2025 why effective electoral districts ought to be contiguous. Although, if you have time, check out the 1989 Queensland election on YouTube – there is a brief segment with a cranky cartographer who was asked why the town of Wujal Wujal was placed in Cook but completely surrounded by Barron River. His response was something to the effect of “I have to implement the act as its written, not as everyone thinks it should be”. I don’t think old mate could get away with connecting Traeger to Caloundra though. 😀
I think he was being sarcastic
For anyone interested my maps will be here for your viewing
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M27wyi1kSPrn033ZPpe3DMRmdF8k6FUf
They’re obviously blank atm but stayed tuned.
Correction some aren’t blank a few have some work done. These were just early drafts I made months ago before we had access to the official numbers.
umm question why is moreton island in redcliffe when the only access in from the port of bribane? or pikenba which is llyton or clayfield?
my theodore is now everything east of the motorway alont the coomera and pimpana river renamed Pimpana
Moreton Island was previously accessible via Redcliffe until 2008. I agree there is a strong case to move it to Clayfield, with only a neligible number of residents.
I was considering it but my Redcliffe given its growth forecast sits at -9.74% with a projected of -3.35%. So moving it would tip it over the 10% threshold. A job for another day.
Il definitely look at putting it in Lilley when the federal redistribution rolls around though.
In regards to another matter my Everton contracts to a zmoreton Bay only seat losing all of its Bribane parts south of Albany Creek and gaining all the Moreton Bay parts from ferny Grove north of the creek which is the boundary of Moreton Bay as.Everton park is now outside the seat I’ve come up with some name alternatives. Bunyaville after the national Park, Ruth Pine after the river or Albany or Albany Creek as that is effective its entire border. Which do you think is more suitable.
which conveniently put Everton at quota still too
also as of today the redistriubtions in queesland and tasmanias federal redistributions must start by 28th August. South Australia by August 26th and ACT by August 19th. I imagine the ACT will be a quick and easy process having only 3 seats. Tasmania will probably be a bit more complex considering where the population problems are. SA will probly be about the same having 10 seats but QLD will be the real test. Unlike the state redistribution which only requires the current numbers to be within 10% varance the projected enrollment will need to be within 3.5% making it a bit more difficult given some areas have higher long term growth thankfully our good friend angas will probably mkae our lives incredibly easy
It’s a relatively minor change, but does anyone have any views on moving Moreton Island from Redcliffe to Lytton? It’s a bit of an anomaly where it is based on transport links and is in the northside BCC ward of Deagon and the southside Federal seat of Bonner.
At the last state election the ECQ didn’t have a polling booth on the island.
@john The calculation of numbers for redistribution in Australia occurs a year after the first sitting of Parliament, as mandated by the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918. Given that the Queensland redistribution was deferred due to the short gap between the due date and the election, I’m not quite sure when the redistribution will start.
My assumption is that it can’t start until the numbers are calculated i.e. July next year as the redistribution hasn’t been officially kicked off.
@John I’m probably going to object to renaming Whitsunday. 🙂 I’m also going to set out a process for seat names after the QRC made a mess of it last time. Basically arguing that all seats* be renamed to the most significant local area (suburb or town) that is hopefully located in a central position so map changes won’t lead to frequent name changes. *The exception would be the seat of McConnel (previously Brisbane) which overlaps with local government and Federal naming. I’d suggest that the name of the seat where Parliament is located should be renamed to Meanjin, the indigenous name for that area from Gardens Point to the CBD.
@Mark Yore according to the legislation a deferred redistribution is to begin within 30 days after the first sitting of the new parliament. That was today. So both Tasmanias and Queensland redistribution are to begin by August 21st (not the 28th john stated) And according to the latest ABS data in june (the data they will be looking at) qlds growth has slowed and there’s no reason to believe it will gain another seat next year based on those numbers. That means ACTs is to start by August 12th and SAs by August 19th.
@ Mark Yore re Moreton Island yes, if I have time to make a sub I’ll be including that change.
At least as recently as 2006 there was a ship (the ‘Combi Trader’) which went from Scarborough to Bulwer. Now there’s the semi-private one for the resort (leaves from Clayfield district?) and the publicly bookable barge (leaves from Lytton district).
Mark we discussed doing that. Just above.due to Redcliffe growth wive moved everything west of the canals down boardman road and Elizabeth Avenue into Murrumba. This puts Redcliffe on -9.74% on current enrollment and -3.35% on projected. Unfortunately moving Moreton island would tip it over the 10% so I’ve chosen to leave it for now however it might be something to look into next time. It’s been left for the last 2 redistributions so might as well leave it in place for now. They may choose to revive the Redcliffe ferry at some point in the future. Also there is 2 current current transport links in llyton and the other more commonly used route in Pinkenba which is in Clayfield. I’d be more inclined to put it there.
Do you mean my version of Whitsunday? I RENAMED It because I had moved all of Whitsunday LGA including the namesake Islands into Burdekin where the majority of the LGA already is. Under naming provisions the seat that provides the most voters in this case Burdekin retains the name.
In relation to the calculating of numbers what Lord Vader has just said.
I would oppose naming it Meanjin. I bet most people in Brisbane wouldn’t know the indigenous name of the area. Il leave Maiwar because that’s the name for the whole river system. The voice to parliament failed we don’t need to go naming everything the tradition names. I hate renaming Fraser island kgari and I still use Ayers Rock. This is 21st century Australia there are no white Australians and aboriginal Australians. We are a modern country where anyone who was born here is indigenous to this country and just because their ancestors came here 20,000 years before mine (thas right aboriginals didnt originate here either) doesn’t mean they have more rights
I will be suggesting it be renamed Brisbane. In line with most other states capitals.
Your comment does not explain why you are so offended by traditional names, John. Are you equally offended by electorates named for deceased individuals?
The idea that we should avoid indigenous names because it somehow symbolises a notion that Aborigines are entitled to more rights than non-Aborigines sounds very much like the same sort of contorted logic those on the far-left use on these matters, just with reverse ends.
Also after thinking about it given toowomba is spread across 4 seats the fact they in the middle im gonna suggest renaming toowoomba north to Toowoomba and Toowoomba south to Harristown
I recall John wanting to rename the VIC electorate of Bass to avoid duplication with the Federal electorate of Bass in TAS. Now I’m watching John propose McConnel be renamed to Brisbane even though we have a federal electorate of the same name because he doesn’t want it named after an Aboriginal word.
I have some issues with the naming of Theodore. 🙂 Ideally Federal Seats can be named after prominent people, Queensland seats can be named after local areas and local government seats I’m quite happy numbering, because it’s only Brisbane that has an excessive amount.
In terms of Meanjin, it is geographically relevant and recognises that there were people here prior to settlement. Given that the electorate of Brisbane was named after the Brisbane River, which was named after a NSW Governor who served in Australia from 1821 to 1825, I am prepared to not name anything else after him. While there is a logic in naming a Federal seat after the State capital, I question the sense in naming the State seat as well.
While some readers may find this astounding, there are some Australians who really don’t care about politics and get confused about electorates. So lets make it a little easier not to confuse people.
@John Maiwar was a bad name for the seat, simply because it didn’t come at the beginning of the river system or the end, just somewhere in the middle.
It’s one of the reasons I detest Miller, because the area had NOTHING to do with Emma Miller. Emma Miller Place, named after her, is in Roma Street, Brisbane. She was born in England, participated in the first meeting of WEFA in Brisbane Town Hall and was the second President, worked for the TLC in Edward Street Brisbane, campaigned in Roma and Miles, died in Toowoomba and is buried in Toowoong.
At least the AEC attempts to get historical links correct when it names seats.
@Alex @John The boat that travels from Pinkenba to Tangalooma is for resort guests only; the Micat car ferry leaves from Port of Brisbane in Lytton. The oft-promised ferry from Redcliffe has been on the drawing board for at least 20 years, generally popping up whenever an election gets close. There was an announcement of one service called the Bottlenose but that seems to have died. As it is there’s only about 180 people on Moreton and the last booth I was able to find was from 2012 with just over 50 voters. Allowing for postal and prepolls the actual number of voters is somewhere between those two numbers.
My version of Redcliffe takes the coastal area at Newport and then calls the boundary at the airport. There’s a lot of extra area north of Anzac Avenue to incrementally balance Redcliffe out. The only problem I see is that future growth in Redcliffe is going to have to come from going up instead of using infill because there isn’t a lot of greenfield development.
@John Also how did you balance Chatsworth? That seat is 7.6% under and I can’t see where you’ve pulled the voters from to also contribute 7% to Mansfield. The inner southern belt is almost balanced between Lytton, Chatsworth, Bulimba, Greenslopes and South Brisbane but gets wrecked once you get further south.
I am really looking forward to seeing the submissions.
@Mark given the surplus in coomera Theodore will probably need renaming.
Everyone knows there were people here before settlement we get reminded of that every time someone builds a road or has a council meeting. We dont need it shoved down out throats just because a few do folders want the rest of us to feel guilty about things that happened 200 years ago and was quite normal at the time.
Actually the AEC only names seats with peope who had some relevance to that particular state they don’t take into account specific seats because boundaries change.
I have renamed and keen for feedback….
McConnell to Brisbane Central… restore original name
Stafford to McConnell… dont like Stafford name😂, reuse McConnell name
Maiwar to Indooroopilly… Maiwar is mistaken as Indigenous name for Brisbane river , restore original name
Cooper to Ashgrove… confusion with federal seat , restore original name
Miller to Yeronga… Ms Miller didnt live in area , restore original name
Bulimba to Morningside… more central when redistributed
Lytton to Brisbane Ports… no one lives in Lytton
Toohey/Stretton to Sunnybank
Mundingburra/Thuringowa to Townsville south
Woodridge to Logan… woodridge redistributed out
Waterford to Bethania… more central when redistributed , Bethania is slightly larger than Waterford
Everton to Albany Creek… Everton Park redistributed out
Mirani to Sarina… Mirani is not major town (2,000 people), Sarina is major centre
Callide to Coalfields… Callide is not major town (80 people), includes Bowen Basin largest coal reserves in AU , shared industry is mining
Hinchinbrook to Canefields? Hinchinbrook island … shared industry is cane farming
Southern Downs to Darling Downs… theres no western downs electorate , Goondiwindi major centre is not in Southern Downs council
Theodore to Oxenford… Oxenford is major centre
Gaven to Nerang… Nerang is major centre
Macalister to Beenleigh… Ms Macalister didnt live in area, Beenleigh is major centre
Sandgate to Macalister… less central when redistributed, Ms Macalister lived closer to area
Bancroft to Deception Bay… Geographically more correct
Morayfield to Caboolture… more central when redistributed, Caboolture is major centre
Ninderry to Bli Bli?… Ninderry is not major town (1,000 people)
Nicklin to Nambour?… Nambour is major centre
Lockyer to Lockyer Valley… Geographically more correct
Logan to Yarrabilba?
@Mark Yore July 23, 2025 at 1:50 am:
NP Government in the 1980s renamed Nambour to Nicklin, there was uproar at the time as Qld State Seats had been named for location and only Federal Seats were named for historical figures.
Anyway, it stood, and now many Qld State seats have headscratching names.
My opinion, the old naming system was best, Ted Theodore should be remembered in Qld, but it should be through a Federal Seat.
Lytton to Wynum is probably a better change – no-one lives at Brisbane Ports either. I’m also trying to keep seat names to one word.
Stafford is a long standing suburb, with the major shopping centres in the area.
I always thought adding Central to Brisbane was slightly redundant.
Yeronga was historically the name that covered that area so it’s a good change.
As you’ve noted, the Bowen Basin from Collinsville to Moranbah is a larger coal producer. Replacing Callide with Biloela instead of Coalfields, depending on what changes have been made, is probably a better option.
The same goes for Canefields – plus there’s always a chance that the mill will close down, as happened in Sarina and Nambour.
Logan was named after the Logan River and Logan Village. The problem with that electorate currently is that it’s mostly widely dispersed communities consisting almost entirely of new growth like Yarrabilba. So it’s fairly difficult to choose a name that won’t be made redundant over the next two redistributions.
My Ninderry loses the southern section and picks up more of the coast, so Coolum is an easy pick.
@lurking whilst rue i prefer consistency so until the rename all seats that conflict with the capitols /major cities i prefer they consistently have the same names. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth all exist at a state and federal level along with Fremantle, Newcastle. The outlier in this group is Fremantle at a federal level which encompasses more then just Fremantle.
@mark yea but it’s the same with Indi. And probably some other seats. Maiwar does take a significant portion and that’s why I chose to leave it. In regards to miller I agree and have proposed renaming it to Tarragindi. They don’t name areas based on if that person had anything to do with the area they simply name a seat after them if they had something to do with that particular state. After all boundaries change.
There was a ferry from Redcliffe that shut down in 2008 due too operational reasons. I’ve chosen to leave it in Redcliffe simply to keep it above the 10% deviation this time around.
In regards to Chatsworth I’ve confined north Brisbane to the Brisbane Lga with the exception of pushing moggill into Ipswich to keep it within quota and the ipswich region is somewhat within CoI. I’ve done the following:
My overall opinion on naming state electorates:
– If the electorate has a central and consistent community of interest (Mount Ommaney, Capalaba), or is centred on a major city (Mackay, Rockhampton), then a geographical name should be applied, presumably using this community of interest. A name after an eminent person isn’t a bad idea but a geographical name at state level feels more suitable as federal electorates are much larger)
– If the electorate has a more divided community of interest (Miller, Jordan?), then a name after a prominent person who has made significant contributions is more acceptable as it doesn’t really have a defined community of interest.
To also note, I have gone by this in my redistribution proposal with renaming a few seats
– Gaven -> Nerang
– Toohey/Stretton (abolished) -> Sunnybank
– my proposed Ripley-Greenbank-Flagstone seat -> Goss (Wayne Goss)
I have also created a seat around Caboolture yet I haven’t decided on a name.
@Gympie Yes, it was a bad decision then and it’s still a bad decision. I still have issues with Theodore, mostly because he avoided jail because the police refused to investigate.
Even under the current naming methodology having a significant Federal career should take you out of the running to have a state seat named after you.
I’ve put my naming convention in the intro – all place names, mostly centrally located, one word. And where possible not one of the difficult to spell suburbs. Because confusion… (back in the dawn of time the street where the Logan Police Station was located, behind the Council building, was named Integrefolia Street. That caused enormous paperwork problems, so it was renamed Civic Parade.)
Llyton expands along Wynnum road up creek road along llyton and canslie roads from bulimba in regards to its population thats because its the port…. if it had to be renamed id say Wynnum since theres about 26000 people there.
Chatsworth takes in everything east of boundary road from greenslopes, takes in everything east of creek road and seven hills bushland from bulimba renamed because its named after a road of all things. thats not even in the seat its in enighbouring greenslopes. renamed Tingalpa after the creek that it borders in the east that seperates brisbane from redlands.
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 as stretton and toohey are no longer in the seat
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.
also in regards to Chatsworth. Cleveland might be workable as the Old Cleveland Road runs from one end of the seat to the other
@james in regards to greenbank/ripley ive simply called tthjis Greenbank
in regards to Caboolture how about Caboolture? thats what ive called mine
Sky News quotes Glencore as saying they’re in trouble at Mt Isa. Should it close, exodus of workers will necessitate Kennedy increasing in size.
Why not bite the bullet and split Kennedy laterally between Leichhardt, Herbert, Dawson and Capricornia and create another seat in SEQ?
@Up the dragons July 23, 2025 at 10:25 am
– Reversion of McConnel to Brisbane Central works imo, but if you wanted to further reduce confusion between the Federal Seat of Brisbane and Brisbane Central, reusing the name Maiwar would feel appropriate if your plans to rename Maiwar to Indooroopilly passes.
– Agree with renaming Cooper to Ashgrove and reversion of Miller to Yeerongpilly; Miller should also be reserved for a Federal seat in QLD whenever Parliament expands imo
– Callide to Coalfields seems to be appropriate bc it’s probably more geographically representative.
– I think the name for Hinchinbrook is fine
– Renaming Nicklin to Nambour is appropriate
– I don’t see the need to retain seat names after people on the state level (unless you’re committing to it like SA and NT), so renaming Sandgate to Macalister and Stafford to McConnel seems unnecessary. McConnel in particular should be reserved for a federal seat whenever Parliament expands.
On the subject of renaming seat names, I’d like to make two suggestions (that are unlikely to occur)
1. Hill renamed to Atherton, after the Atherton Tablelands
2. Oodgeroo reverted back to Cleveland, although if QRC wants to honour her I think Minjerribah (Jandai name for North Stradbroke Island) could work?
@lurking they wont reuse names thats a big nono that they specifically say they wont do.
My Cooper is renamed Paddington.
Miller becomes Tarragindi.
Callide is named after the Creek not the town in the Coalfields and hence ive left that for now.
HTey wont transfer McConnel and Macallister as they dont transfer names. they can abolish it one redistribution and recreate it at another but they cannot and wil not trnasfer it.
My Hill is renamed Johnstone after the major river system in the seat
Oodgeroo becomes Thornlands
in regards to the Moreton Island ferry the one from pikenba does cater for non resort passengers although the prices are diffrent and they run 4 times a day every day.
The Micat operates on a demand-based timetable, so during our busy periods they can run up to 5 times per day.
During the quiet times they generally don’t run at all on a Wednesday, and only run once per day on other days except Friday and Sunday when we run twice.
@john I’m leaning towards Carindale as a replacement for Chatsworth because a) it’s picked up the remainder of the Carindale suburb from Mansfield in my proposal; 2) it’s centrally located and unlikely to be moved out in any future redistribution; and 3) the significant shopping centre is Westfield Carindale.
I’m also going with Ormiston to replace Oodgeroo for consistency. It’s also a core suburb that is unlikely to move and Ormiston House is a local landmark.
@Lurking Westie I’d also support Miller for a federal seat. Oodgeroo was on the AEC wishlist but the ECQ jumped in first.
On another note I thought Oodgeroo would be a difficult seat to redistribute but it was quite easy. However the knock-on effects are interesting.
@Angas Loving the app. A few issues and suggestions:-
1. I’ve run into a spot where the QRC split the SA1 and I’ve had to make a note that I’m now adding the remainder of the SA1 into the seat.
2. What’s the chance of a save button? Waiting for my computer to do it’s regular crash is a bit nerve-wracking.
3. Is there a way of adjusting the size of the window the map is displayed in? I find there’s only one increment between small and doesn’t fit on the page.
4. Feature suggestion – exporting the lists of SA1s for each electorate. Text file would be fine.
@Clarinet of Communists re Sunshine Coast seats
Caloundra is an absolute pain in the neck to balance, especially when the growth rate is going to be much higher than the estimate provided. What I have done is made Glass House, Caloundra and Nicklin stay on their own side of the Bruce Highway and then head north until they run out of voters.
One option to deal with that Baringa SA1 (you know which one) is to simply create two adjoining seats that create an acceptable average and leave it to the QRC to work out where to split it.
It’s very untidy though and so far my only solution has been to request a bridge be constructed on the northern edge of Bribie Island to connect west with Roys Road. That will allow me to put Bribie in with Caloundra but so far Transport and Main Roads haven’t replied. 🙂
I’m thinking of just writing “I’ll pretend you made it possible to meet the guidelines if you pretend my submission meets the guidelines.”