Anna Bligh, 2012. Election brochure, 2012.

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Campbell Newman, 2012. Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Campbell Newman campaigned for the 2012 Queensland State election from outside parliament. Election brochure, 2012.

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Queensland State election, 2012

Australia
21 January 2013
21 January 2013

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Australia
Electoral Commission of Queensland

Electoral Commission of Queensland

Queensland State election, 2012. Anna Bligh’s ALP was swept from office and almost entirely from the political map after a massive state-wide electoral swing handed government to the LNP under new leader, former Brisbane Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman. Most Independent and Labor MPs were defeated, leaving the ALP with only seven of its 51 seats going in to the poll: four in Brisbane’s south and south-west and three in northern provincial areas. The State’s electoral map is awash with LNP blue after the party captured seats never before given up by Labor, and took a stranglehold on the all-important south-east corner. The ‘barnstorming’ arrival on the electoral scene of Bob Katter’s Australian Party attracted 11.5% of the state-wide vote, but succeeded in winning only two seats in the State’s far north. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 2012

Queensland State election, 2009

21 January 2013
21 January 2013
Electoral Commission of Queensland

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Queensland State election, 2009. This poll saw Labor’s re-election – its eighth consecutive election win – under Anna Bligh, Australia's first female Premier popularly voted into office. At the same time the ALP lost eight of its seats, half of these in Brisbane, and endured a drop in its primary vote of almost five percent. The newly-merged Liberal-National Party (LNP) increased its standing to 34 seats, gaining an important stronger foothold in the southeast and reducing Labor’s dominance to the far northwest and the capital and its surrounds. Significantly, One Nation disappeared from the political map after losing its sole seat in a still-fractured electoral landscape. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 2009

Queensland State election, 2006

21 January 2013
21 January 2013
Electoral Commission of Queensland

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Queensland State election, 2006. By the 2006 poll, Peter Beattie's Labor government was firmly entrenched across much of the electoral landscape. This election continued the gradual demise of One Nation, with the party holding its sole seat in far north Queensland but seeing its primary vote collapse to less than one percent. The Liberals and Nationals gained a handful of seats in their traditional heartlands of the Sunshine Coast and rural/provincial electorates respectively but otherwise made up little ground on Labor’s commanding primary vote; a handful of conservative Independents rounded out the remaining seats in the State’s southeast. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 2006

Queensland State election, 2004

21 January 2013
21 January 2013
Electoral Commission of Queensland

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Queensland State election, 2004. By the 2004 state elections, One Nation’s presence in the political landscape shrunk to just one electorate: Tablelands. This was a remnant of the party’s spectacular success in the 1998 elections when One Nation captured 11 seats and received nearly one quarter of Queensland’s primary vote. This map shows a pattern of political division where Brisbane and the urban core (shaded grey) tend to be controlled by the Labor or Liberal parties. The larger rural and northern electorates tend to be dominated by the Nationals, Labor and to a lesser extent, One Nation. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 2004

It’s said that things don’t change much or too quickly in Queensland – yet in the space of eleven years, the State’s electoral map changed shades from a dominant orange to a sea of blue, underlinin

Site of Lytton fortifications, 1887

1 January 1887
10 October 2012
10 October 2012

Site of Lytton fortifications, proposed 1877 and built 1880-82, from C. Kinloch Cooke, Australian defences and New Guinea, compiled from the papers of the late Major-General Sir Peter Scratchley, R.E., K.C.M.G., London, Macmillan and Co, 1887

View from Fort Kissing Point, Townsville, 2003. Peter Dunn

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Fort Lytton on Brisbane River, 2007

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