The Division of Ryan is an Australian Electoral Division in 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...

. The division was created in 1949 and is named for T.J. Ryan, a former Premier of Queensland

Premiers of Queensland

Before the 1890s, there was no developed party system in Queensland. Political affiliation labels before that time indicate a general tendency only. Before the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, political parties were more akin to parliamentary factions, and were fluid, informal and...

 from 1915 to 1919. Ryan is located in south east Queensland, and is generally based on the south western suburbs of the City of 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...

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Location

The Division of Ryan encompasses the following suburbs and localities:

• Bellbowrie
  Bellbowrie, Queensland
  Bellbowrie is a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Bellbowrie lies 17 kilometres west-southwest of Brisbane's city centre. It is a rapidly developing semi-rural area due to Brisbane's growth heading in a westwards direction....
  
  
• Moggill
  Moggill, Queensland
  Moggill is one of Brisbane's western suburbs, about from the CBD. It comprises a mixture of small-lot and acreage residential homes along with a small number of remaining farms...
  
  
• Brookfield
  Brookfield, Queensland
  Brookfield is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located approximately 13 km to the west of the Brisbane CBD. Brookfield was named by Mrs J. S. Brimblecombe due to the creeks and gullies in the area.-Geography:...
  
  
• Pullenvale
  Pullenvale, Queensland
  Pullenvale is situated approximately 15 km west of the Brisbane CBD of Queensland’s capital city. Pullenvale is named after early settler, Michael Pullen who in 1852 is said to have cleared a patch of dense bush around what is now Pullenvale with a single ox...
  
  
• Karana Downs
  Karana Downs, Queensland
  Karana Downs is a suburb of Brisbane's west in south-east Queensland, Australia, 22 km from Brisbane's CBD.The semi-rural, leafy suburb is bordered by the Brisbane River to the south and east, and Mount Crosby to the west....
  
  
• Lake Manchester
  Lake Manchester, Queensland
  Lake Manchester is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is west of the CBD next to Brisbane Forest. The suburb Lake Manchester is named after the Lake Manchester Dam constructed between 1912–1916.-External links:* *...
  
  
• Chapel Hill
  Chapel Hill, Queensland
  Chapel Hill is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia which is located 7 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. It is primarily a residential suburb, consisting of mostly detached housing. There has been a trend towards townhouse and small lot developments during the last decade...
  
  
• Ferny Grove
  Ferny Grove, Queensland
  Ferny Grove is a residential suburb in north-west Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It lies entirely within the Brisbane-metropolitan area administered by the Brisbane City Council.-General information:...
  
  
• Fig Tree Pocket
  Fig Tree Pocket, Queensland
  Fig Tree Pocket is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 8 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD on the Brisbane River. Placed within a pocket of the Brisbane River, the suburb is relatively remote, devoted mostly to low density housing...
  
  
• Indooroopilly
  Indooroopilly, Queensland
  Indooroopilly is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia which is located 7 km west of the Brisbane central business district.- Name derivation and history :...
  
  
• Kenmore
  Kenmore, Queensland
  Kenmore is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 10 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Kenmore is a leafy suburb with a high number of professional residents and families. It is dominated by detached housing - units and townhouses are rare...
  
  
• Keperra
  Keperra, Queensland
  Keperra is a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia which is located approximately 9 kilometres north-west of the CBD. It has a deep and rich history, with some thinking that the name was based upon the Aboriginal term for “Kipper”...
  
  
• St Lucia
  St Lucia, Queensland
  St Lucia is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 4 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. The suburb is bordered on three sides by the Brisbane River and is dominated by the main campus of the University of Queensland.-History:...
  
  
• Taringa
  Taringa, Queensland
  Taringa is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 5 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Taringa is mostly residential, except for a small number of commercial buildings mostly clustered along Moggill Road...
  
  
• Toowong
  Toowong, Queensland
  Toowong is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia which is located 5 km west of the Brisbane CBD. At the centre of Toowong is a commercial precinct including Toowong Village and several office buildings...
  
  
• Auchenflower
  Auchenflower, Queensland
  Auchenflower is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia located 2.5 km west of the Brisbane CBD bordering the Brisbane River.-History:Between 1900 and 1962 Auchenflower was served by trams running along Milton Road from Toowong...
  
  
• Bardon
  Bardon, Queensland
  Bardon is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia located approximately 5 km west of the Brisbane CBD. Bardon is a leafy residential suburb, much of which nestles into the foothills of Mount Coot-tha.-History:...
  
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• The Gap
  The Gap, Queensland
  The Gap is a leafy and hilly suburb of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia, located approximately 11 km west of the Brisbane CBD.-Geography:...
  
  
• The western Centenary Suburbs
  Centenary Suburbs
  The Centenary Suburbs are a group of seven suburbs located in the outer-west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, bordered by the Brisbane River to the North and West, the Centenary Highway to the east and Wolston Creek to the South, and their name honours the centenary of the state of Queensland,...
  
  

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Nigel Drury Nigel Drury Edward Nigel Drury, CBE was an Australian politician and grandson of Colonel E R Drury, pastoralist, business man, the first manager of the National Bank in Queensland and a member of the family well known in Brisbane at the end of the 19th century.Nigel Drury was born in Clifton, Queensland and...	Liberal 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...	1949 Australian federal election, 1949 Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 December 1949. All 121 seats in the House of Representatives, and 42 of the 60 seats in the Senate were up for election, where the single transferable vote was introduced... –1975
	John Moore John Moore (Australian politician) John Colinton Moore AO is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the House of Representatives for over 25 years, and a minister from 1980 to 1982 and 1996 to 2001....	Liberal 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...	1975 Australian federal election, 1975 Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 December 1975. All 127 seats in the House of Representatives, and all 64 seats in the Senate were up for election following a double dissolution of both Houses.... –2001
	Leonie Short Leonie Short Leonie Marjorie Short was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for eight months in 2001, representing the western Brisbane seat of Ryan for the Australian Labor Party, a party she had been a member of since 1981. Short was elected on 17 March 2001 at a by-election following the...	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 Ryan by-election, 2001 The 2001 Ryan by-election was held in the Australian electorate of Ryan in Queensland on 17 March 2001. The by-election was triggered by the retirement of the sitting member, the Liberal Party of Australia's John Moore, on 5 February 2001... –2001
	Michael Johnson Michael Johnson (politician) Michael Andrew Johnson , an Australian federal politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Ryan, Queensland, from 2001 to 2010, representing the Liberal Party from November 2001 to May 2010 and then as an independent from May 2010 until he was defeated at the...	Liberal 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...	2001–2010
		Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	2010–2010
	Jane Prentice Jane Prentice Jane Prentice , an Australian federal politician, is a member of the Australian House of Representatives since August 2010, representing the seat of Ryan for the Liberal National Party of Queensland....	Liberal National	2010–present

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