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ISSUE 421 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1991 — THURSDAY, September 12, 1991 PHONE (079) 39 4244
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New seat should be based on Capricorn Coast
• ABOVE: Hemming (Pop) and Annie Hansen celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary on August 28 at Peg and Harold Hansen' s home. Their daughter, Fay, and her husband Alan Armstrong were also present.
THE proposed electorate district of Rockhampton North should be a Coast-based seat ... because it has the numbers. Livingstone Shire clerk Jim Brown said on Wednesday that the shire had an enrolment of 16,500, calculated from electoral rolls, as at June, 1991. The enrolment, according to EARC, of the new Rockhampton North electorate is 21,573. "There are about 900 electors from The Caves area who will move into Mirani and about 1700 to Fitzroy. That leaves about 13,500 going into Rockhampton North," Mr Brown said. "These figures are only rough ones, but it means the new seat of Rockhampton North should be primarily a Coast-based one." Shire chairman Cr Barbara Wildin said council would consider the question of the proposed boundaries and electorate name at next week's meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. "I'm disappointed The Caves area has been split up. Some will go to Fitzroy and Mirani, with the bulk going into Rockhampton North," she said. "The people who live in The Caves area are very community minded and extremely close knit. I can't see the reasoning for splitting an area like that. Why move those people out of an area where they have an affinity? "Just further north of the new boundary, there is plenty of open space, why not move the
Objections open until September 30 ELECTORS living in the new State seat of Rockhampton North have until 5pm on Monday, September 30 to object to the proposed electorate's boundaries or name. EARC (Electoral and Administrative Review Commission) this week announced its proposals for Queensland Legislative Assembly Electoral Districts and the Capricorn Coast and its hinterland have been included in the seat of Rockhampton North. The previous seat of Broadsound, based on the Capricorn Coast and spreading north and slightly west to take in the mining area of Dysart, has disappeared under the proposed State electoral boundaries. In its report, EARC said the community of interest for the new seat would be enhanced by extending the proposed electoral district northwards as far as Shoalwater Bay to include centres which are increasingly part of the to Rockhampton urban area. [. "Coastal centres to the north of Rockhamp_0...ft.—ton - Yeppoon and Emu Park - have traditionally been left out of the Rockhampton North district and included in the predominantly ' rural electoral district running around the city's outer boundaries," the report said. "The Coast has previously been in Keppel, Callide and Broadsound.
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"Although a substantial part of Rockhampton north of the Fitzroy will be in the proposed district of Rockhampton, it is still appropriate to retain the current name - Rockhampton North. "This name applied from 1887 to 1910 and was re-introduced in 1958 for the northern of the two districts covering most of the city." The quota for electorates is an enrolment of 20,372. The new seat of Rockhampton North will have 21,573, that is, 5.9 per cent more than the quota (10 per cent is allowable).
EARC estimates that the average enrolment at March, 1995 will be 23,552 (the quota will be 23,128). Maps, reasons and boundary descriptions of the proposed electoral distribution are available at Yeppoon Library, Emu Park Library, The Caves library (at the State School) and Keppel Sands library (at the State School). Objections to the boundaries or name, close on September 30, but people have until October 10 to comment, not object, on the • CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
; • ABOVE: Tom Bongers had the chance to meet Sam Trimble at the Wanderers cricket match on Saturday. boundary just a few kilometres further north. "The council staff is preparing a submission for the meeting and I think the table will lodge an objection to The Caves area being removed from their neighbours," Cr Wildin said. "We will also be objecting to the electorate's new name. We have the enrolment numbers and therefore feel the name 'Rockhampton North' doesn't really describe the new Coast-based electorate. "Perhapswe should go back to the old name of 'Keppel', or maybe the designated 'Capricorn Coast'." Cr Wildin said if anyone wanted to suggest a name for the new electorate they could leave their ideas in council's new suaaestion box in the administration centre's foyer. "Just think of the publicity this area would receive at election time when the name flashes up on television screens all over Queensland," she said.
MLA'S SURPRISE AT MAGNITUDE OF CHANGES UNDER proposals put forward by the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission (EARC), the State seat of Broadsound will disappear and the Capricorn Coast will be taken in by the seat of Rockhampton North. Member for Broadsound Jim Pearce this week said he was surprised at the magnitude of changes to electorates in Central Queensland and that Broadsound had been wiped out. "I was expecting the electorate to get a little bigger in size by perhaps taking in the towns of Mt Morgan and Gracemere," Mr Pearce said. "But to see it disappear altogether was a bit of a shock.
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"I am unable to stake a claim on any Central Queensland electorate as there is a process that has to be followed first and this means talkingwith State and local Labor Party branch members. "Whatever happens, I certainly will not be nominating against any other current Member of Parliament," he said. "The new electorate of Fitzroy is up for grabs but it's really going to be the Labor Party and the system that makes the final decision. "I am disappointed that Broadsound will disappear at the next State election. I have put
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