The Division of Moreton is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The current MP is Julie-Ann Campbell of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
History
The division was one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after Moreton Bay, and originally stretched from southern Brisbane all the way to the Gold Coast. While successive redistributions have left the seat completely landlocked, it has nonetheless retained the name of Moreton, mainly because the Australian Electoral Commission's guidelines on electoral redistributions require it to preserve the names of original electorates where possible.
The seat was in the hands of the Liberal Party and its predecessors from 1906 to 1990, though the Liberals' hold on the seat was usually tenuous from the 1950s onward. Labor regained it in 1990, and then until 2013 it was a bellwether seat held by the party of government. Labor narrowly retained the seat in 2013 even as it lost government, marking the first time in over a century that the non-Labor parties had been in government without holding Moreton.
The seat is known for having decided the 1961 federal election. The Liberals only won the seat by 130 votes to give the Coalition a bare one-seat majority; had 93 Communist preferences gone the other way, it would have resulted in a hung parliament.
On its current boundaries, the seat is very multicultural, with significant Asian, South Eastern European, Arab and African population in the southern part of the electorate particularly in the suburbs of Sunnybank, Acacia Ridge, Kuraby and Moorooka.
Boundaries Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.
Moreton is located in south east Queensland, and is based in the southern suburbs of the City of Brisbane. The division includes Acacia Ridge, Archerfield, Chelmer, Fairfield, Graceville, Karawatha, Kuraby, MacGregor, Moorooka, Nathan, Oxley, Robertson, Rocklea, Runcorn, Salisbury, Stretton, Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills, Tennyson, Yeronga, and Yeerongpilly, and parts of Algester, Berrinba, Calamvale, Coopers Plains, Corinda, Drewvale, Eight Mile Plains, Parkinson, Sherwood and Tarragindi.
Members Image Member Party Term Notes James Wilkinson Independent Labour 30 March 1901 –1904 Previously held the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Ipswich. Lost seat Labour 1904 –12 December 1906 Hugh Sinclair Anti-Socialist 12 December 1906 –26 May 1909 Retired Liberal 26 May 1909 –17 February 1917 Nationalist 17 February 1917 –3 November 1919 Arnold Wienholt 13 December 1919 –6 November 1922 Previously held the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Fassifern. Retired. Later elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Fassifern in 1930 Josiah Francis 16 December 1922 –7 May 1931 Served as minister under Lyons and Menzies. Retired United Australia 7 May 1931 –21 February 1945 Liberal 21 February 1945 –4 November 1955 Sir James Killen 10 December 1955 –15 August 1983 Served as minister under Gorton, McMahon and Fraser. Resigned to retire from politics Don Cameron 5 November 1983 –24 March 1990 Previously held the Division of Fadden. Lost seat Garrie Gibson Labor 24 March 1990 –2 March 1996 Lost seat Gary Hardgrave Liberal 2 March 1996 –24 November 2007 Served as minister under Howard. Lost seat Graham Perrett Labor 24 November 2007 –28 March 2025 Retired Julie-Ann Campbell Labor 3 May 2025 –present Incumbent
Election results
References
External links Division of Moreton (Qld) — Australian Electoral Commission