Electoral district of Ipswich - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The district of Ipswich is a Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

electoral district on the Brisbane River

Brisbane River

The Brisbane River is the longest river in south east Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay. John Oxley was the first European to explore the river who named it after the Governor of New South Wales, Thomas Brisbane in 1823...

, west of Brisbane

Brisbane

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in the Australia

Australia

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n state of Queensland

Queensland

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. The electorate includes Ipswich

Ipswich, Queensland

Ipswich is a city in South-East Queensland, Australia. Situated along the Bremer River Valley approximately 40 kilometres away from the state's capital Brisbane. The suburb by the same name forms the city's Central Business District and administrative centre...

and its suburbs, south and east of the Bremer River, west of Bundamba Creek and north of the Cunningham Highway

Cunningham Highway

The Cunningham Highway is a National Highway in Queensland, Australia. It is named after the explorer and botanist Allan Cunningham who followed a route close to where the modern day highway runs.-Route:...

.

The seat is currently held by Rachel Nolan

Rachel Nolan

Rachel Genevieve Nolan is an Australian politician. She was elected as the state member for Ipswich on 17 February 2001. At the time she was Queensland's youngest ever female MP....

of the Labor Party

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...

Members for Ipswich

First incarnation (1860–1873, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	Arthur Macalister Arthur Macalister Arthur Macalister, CMG was three times Premier of Queensland, Australia.-Early life:Macalister was born in Glasgow, Scotland, son of John Macalister, a cabinet maker, and his wife Mary, née Scoullar. Macalister was educated in Glasgow and emigrated to Australia with his wife Elizabeth Wallace née...	Unaligned	1860–1863
	Patrick O'Sullivan Patrick O'Sullivan Patrick O'Sullivan is an American professional ice hockey forward who is currently under contract with the Phoenix Coyotes...	Unaligned	1860–1863
	Arthur Macalister Arthur Macalister Arthur Macalister, CMG was three times Premier of Queensland, Australia.-Early life:Macalister was born in Glasgow, Scotland, son of John Macalister, a cabinet maker, and his wife Mary, née Scoullar. Macalister was educated in Glasgow and emigrated to Australia with his wife Elizabeth Wallace née...	Unaligned	1860–1868
	Ratcliffe Pringe	Unaligned	1863–1866
	Harry Challinor	Unaligned	1863–1868
	George Reed George Reed George Robert Reed, CM is a former American college football and Canadian Football League player. Reed, along with Mike Pringle and Johnny Bright, is one of the players most often mentioned as being the greatest running back in CFL history...	Unaligned	1866–1867
	John Murphy John Murphy -In politics:John Murphy , American Democratic Governor and Congressman from AlabamaJohn Murphy , Member of the UK Parliament for East Kerry, 1900–1910*John W...	Unaligned	1867–1870
	Henry Williams Henry Williams - Politicians :* Henry Williams , British Member of Parliament for Brecon, elected 1604* Sir Henry Williams, 2nd Baronet , British Member of Parliament for Brecon and Breconshire...	Unaligned	1868–1870
	John Thompson John Thompson -Academics:* Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson , English archeologist and Mayan scholar* John G. Thompson , mathematician* John Thompson , professor at Cambridge...	Unaligned	1868–1873
	Benjamin Cribb Benjamin Cribb Benjamin Cribb was an Australian businessman and politician. He was an unaligned member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for one term in 1858-9 and a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1861-7 and again in 1870-3.-Early life:Cribb was born in Poole, Dorset, England; the...	Unaligned	1870–1873
	John Johnston John Johnston John Johnston was a Scottish-American farmer. He is credited with the first public introduction of agricultural drainage in the United States. He did so in 1838....	Unaligned	1870–1872
	Arthur Macalister Arthur Macalister Arthur Macalister, CMG was three times Premier of Queensland, Australia.-Early life:Macalister was born in Glasgow, Scotland, son of John Macalister, a cabinet maker, and his wife Mary, née Scoullar. Macalister was educated in Glasgow and emigrated to Australia with his wife Elizabeth Wallace née...	Unaligned	1872–1873
Second incarnation (1873–1878, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	Arthur Macalister Arthur Macalister Arthur Macalister, CMG was three times Premier of Queensland, Australia.-Early life:Macalister was born in Glasgow, Scotland, son of John Macalister, a cabinet maker, and his wife Mary, née Scoullar. Macalister was educated in Glasgow and emigrated to Australia with his wife Elizabeth Wallace née...	Unaligned	1873–1876
	George Thorn, Jr.	Unaligned	1876–1878
Third incarnation (1878–1912, 2 members)
Member		Party	Term
	John MacFarlane	Ministerialist	1878–1894
	John Thompson	Unaligned	1878–1881
	Josiah Francis	Unaligned	1881–1883
	William Salkeld	Unaligned	1883–1888
	Andrew Henry Barlow	Ministerialist	1888–1896
	James Wilkinson James Wilkinson (Australian politician) James Wilkinson was an Australian politician.Wilkinson was born and raised in Ipswich, Queensland, attending both state and grammar schools...	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...	1894–1896
	Alfred Stephenson	Ministerialist	1896–1902
	Thomas Cribb	Ministerialist	1896–1904
	William Maughan William Maughan William John Ryott Maughan was an English-born Australian politician. Born in London, he was educated at Leeds Grammar School before migrating to Australia in 1884, where he became a public servant and journalist, at one point sitting on Toowong Council. In 1898 he was elected to the Queensland...	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...	1904–1912
	Sir James Blair	Independent/Ministerialist/Opposition	1902–1912
Fourth incarnation (1912–1960, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	Sir James Blair	Ministerialist/Independent	1912–1915
	David Gledson	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...	1915–1929
	James Walker	Country and Progressive National Country and Progressive National Party The Country and Progressive National Party was a short-lived conservative political party in the Australian state of Queensland.-History:It was created in 1925 as the result of a merger between the state's two conservative parties, the United Party and the Country Party, in an attempt to end...	1929–1932
	David Gledson	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...	1932–1949
	Ivor Marsden	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...	1949–1960
Fifth incarnation (1972–present, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	Sir Llewellyn Edwards Llewellyn Edwards Sir Llewellyn Roy Edwards, AC was the twelfth Chancellor of the University of Queensland, a Queensland state politician and state Liberal Party leader, as well as Chair and CEO of the 1988 World Exposition, Brisbane's World Expo '88...	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...	1972–1983
	David Hamill David Hamill David Hamill born at Ipswich, Queensland on 18 September 1957, is a former Queensland ALP politician, who served in a number of positions including Minister for Transport and Minister Assisting the Premier on Economic and Trade Development, Minister for Education and Treasurer. He was elected to...	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...	1983–2001
	Rachel Nolan Rachel Nolan Rachel Genevieve Nolan is an Australian politician. She was elected as the state member for Ipswich on 17 February 2001. At the time she was Queensland's youngest ever female MP....	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–present

Election results

External links

Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)

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