The district of Springwood is an electoral district

Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts

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 of the Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 in the Australia

Australia

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n state of Queensland

Queensland

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.

The district is based in the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane

Brisbane

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. It is named for suburb of Springwood

Springwood, Queensland

Springwood is a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia. The size of Springwood is approximately 6 km². It has 17 parks covering nearly 9% of the total area. The population of Springwood in 1996 was 9,738 people. By 2001 the population was 9,084 showing a population decline of 7% in the...

 and also includes the suburbs of Daisy Hill

Daisy Hill, Queensland

Daisy Hill is a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia. It lies between the Pacific Motorway and the Daisy Hill Conservation Park.-History:...

, Loganholme

Loganholme, Queensland

Loganholme is a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia. A major landmark in the area is the Logan Hyperdome shopping centre. A bus interchange is located adjacent to the Logan Hyperdome. The area is also home to the Loganholme State School....

, Rochedale South

Rochedale South, Queensland

Rochedale South is a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia.-Geography:Rochedale is known for its rich, red soil that is good for crops. Yet due to recent years of drought in the area, much of the farming has been abandoned and are now commercialised....

 and Shailer Park

Shailer Park, Queensland

Shailer Park is a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia.It is a suburb of mainly middle class residential areas, and sits on hilly terrain between the Pacific Motorway and extensive forest and bushland to the north...

. The electorate was first contested in 1986.

History and political profile

The inaugural member for Springwood was Huan Fraser, who represented the National Party. Labor's Molly Robson defeated Fraser in the 1989 state election. She held the seat in the 1992 election, but lost it to the Liberal's Luke Woolmer

Luke Woolmer

Luke Woolmer is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1995 to 1998, representing the electorate of Springwood....

 in 1995 on the back of the Koala tollway controversy, in which the sitting Labor government had announced plans to build a tollway through a koala

Koala

The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae....

 sanctuary. Woolmer won the seat with a 19.4% swing, but narrowly lost it to Labor in 1998. Labor continued to hold the seat in the 2001, 2004 and 2006 elections.

Members for Springwood

Member		Party	Term
	Huan Fraser Huan Fraser Huan Donald John Fraser was a former Australian politician.A Paroo Shire Councillor and former Deputy Mayor of Logan City, Fraser was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1986 as the National Party's member for Springwood, although he was motivated more by local concerns than by...	National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1986–1989
	Molly Robson	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...	1989–1995
	Luke Woolmer Luke Woolmer Luke Woolmer is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1995 to 1998, representing the electorate of Springwood....	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...	1995–1998
	Grant Musgrove Grant Musgrove Grant Steven Musgrove is a former Australian politician. He was the member for Springwood in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2001, representing the Australian Labor Party....	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...	1998–2000
		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...	2000–2001
	Barbara Stone Barbara Stone Barbara Gwendoline Stone is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Springwood and a member of the Australian Labor Party.-Biography:...	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)