The district of Kawana is an electoral district

Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts

This is a list of current and former electoral divisions for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the state legislature for Queensland, Australia.-Districts in Far North Queensland:*Barron River*Cairns*Cook*Mulgrave*Dalrymple...

 of the Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 in the Australia

Australia

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n state of 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...

. Based on the Sunshine Coast

Sunshine Coast, Queensland

The Sunshine Coast is an urban area in South East Queensland, north of the state capital of Brisbane on the Pacific Ocean coastline. Although it does not have a central business district, by population it ranks as the 10th largest metropolis in Australia and the third largest in...

, the district has been held by both sides of politics over its short history.

Geography

A coastal urban electorate lying to the east of the Bruce Highway

Bruce Highway

The Bruce Highway is a major highway in Queensland, Australia. Commencing in the state capital, Brisbane, it passes through areas close to the eastern coast to Cairns in Far North Queensland. The route is a part of the Australian National Highway and also part of Highway 1...

, Kawana includes the suburbs of Kawana Waters, Sippy Downs

Sippy Downs, Queensland

Sippy Downs is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, and is part of the Buderim urban centre. It contains the locality of Chancellor Park, and Australia's newest university, the University of the Sunshine Coast.-History:...

, Minyama

Minyama, Queensland

Minyama is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Kawana urban centre. Situated on the Mooloolah River, the suburb is almost entirely surrounded by water, and artificially constructed harbours and waterways dominate the topography. The suburb's main thoroughfare,...

, Buddina

Buddina, Queensland

Buddina is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, and includes the business district of the Kawana urban centre.A notable feature of Buddina is the Kawana Shoppingworld shopping centre, which is one of the largest shopping centres on the Sunshine Coast and features over 100 stores...

, Parrearra

Parrearra, Queensland

Parrearra is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Kawana urban centre. It contains the locality of Kawana Island.-External links:*...

, Warana

Warana, Queensland

Warana is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Kawana urban centre.-External links:*...

, Bokarina

Bokarina, Queensland

Bokarina is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Kawana urban centre.The suburb is home to Kawana Waters State College.-External links:*...

 and Birtinya

Birtinya, Queensland

Birtinya is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Kawana urban centre. It contains the locality of Kawana Forest.-External links:*...

. It also includes Aroona

Aroona, Queensland

Aroona is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Caloundra urban centre north-west of Caloundra. It is situated between Little Mountain and Currimundi. Aroona is an aboriginal word usually meaning "place of refreshing" or "place of running water"....

, Little Mountain

Little Mountain, Queensland

Little Mountain is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Caloundra urban centre west of Caloundra CBD.The Corbould Park racecourse is located in the suburb, as well as the Caloundra Pony Club and Sunshine Coast Clay Targer club....

, Wurtulla

Wurtulla, Queensland

Wurtulla is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Kawana urban centre. The name means "southward" in the local Aboriginal language, and it was named by Kawana Estates employees in the 1970s.-External links:*...

 and parts of Currimundi

Currimundi, Queensland

Currimundi is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Caloundra urban centre north of Caloundra.It was named by Sir Leslie Wilson, in which he used the local aboriginal name for the area, Garrimundi or Girrimundi, meaning Place of flying foxes.Currimundi Lake is a...

 and Caloundra West

Caloundra West, Queensland

Caloundra West is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Caloundra urban centre directly west of the central business district....

, all of which were added to the district at the redistribution ahead of the 2009 state election

Queensland state election, 2009

The Queensland state election was held to elect members to the unicameral Parliament of Queensland on 21 March 2009. The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a...

.

Originally the district stretched further north and west to include the suburbs of Buderim

Buderim (suburb)

Buderim is a major suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, comprising 63% of the Buderim urban centre by population....

, Mountain Creek

Mountain Creek, Queensland

Mountain Creek is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, and forms part of the Buderim urban centre. It contains Mountain Creek State High School....

 and Tanawha

Tanawha, Queensland

Tanawha is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, and is part of the Buderim urban centre. It is home of the Tanawha Tourist Drive, which contains the Bellingham Maze and the Superbee Honey Factory. This road once carried the Bruce Highway until November 1989.-External links:**...

. However, these parts were redistributed into the new district of Buderim

Electoral district of Buderim

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 by the aforementioned redistribution.

History

First created for the 2001 state election, Kawana essentially replaced the abolished district of Mooloolah

Electoral district of Mooloolah

Mooloolah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1992 to 2001.The district was situated in the Sunshine Coast and named for the community of Mooloolah.-Members for Mooloolah:...

. The sitting member for Mooloolah, Bruce Laming

Bruce Laming

Bruce Laming is a former Australian Liberal Party politician in the Queensland parliament. Laming held the seat of Mooloolah from 1992 until 2001 and served as Shadow Public Works and Housing Minister, Government Whip and Deputy Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly...

 of the Liberal Party

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...

, contested the seat, but was defeated by Chris Cummins 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...

, who subsequently retained the seat at the 2004 state election. Cummins became a minister in the government of Peter Beattie

Peter Beattie

Peter Douglas Beattie , Australian politician, was the 36th Premier of the Australian state of Queensland for nine years and leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state for eleven and a half years...

 before losing his seat to Liberal Party

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...

 candidate Steve Dickson

Steve Dickson

Steve Dickson is an Australian Politician and member of the Queensland State Parliament. He represents the Sunshine Coast seat of Buderim. He was a member of the Liberal Party until the merger of the Liberal and National parties...

 at the 2006 state election. Dickson transferred to the new seat of Buderim

Electoral district of Buderim

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 at the 2009 state election

Queensland state election, 2009

The Queensland state election was held to elect members to the unicameral Parliament of Queensland on 21 March 2009. The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a...

 and was succeeded by Liberal National candidate Jarrod Bleijie

Jarrod Bleijie

Jarrod Pieter Bleijie is an Australian politician and LNP member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Bleijie was elected as the member for Kawana at the 2009 state election, and is the third member since the seat's inception at the 2001 state election.- Life :Jarrod Bleijie was born in...

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Members for Kawana

Member		Party	Term
	Chris Cummins	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...	2001–2006
	Steve Dickson Steve Dickson Steve Dickson is an Australian Politician and member of the Queensland State Parliament. He represents the Sunshine Coast seat of Buderim. He was a member of the Liberal Party until the merger of the Liberal and National parties...	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...	2006–2008
		Liberal National	2008–2009
	Jarrod Bleijie Jarrod Bleijie Jarrod Pieter Bleijie is an Australian politician and LNP member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Bleijie was elected as the member for Kawana at the 2009 state election, and is the third member since the seat's inception at the 2001 state election.- Life :Jarrod Bleijie was born in...	Liberal National	2009–present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)