The electoral district of Inala is an
electoral district
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity ...
of the
Legislative Assembly of Queensland
The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland established under the Constitution of Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembl ...
in south-west
Brisbane
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. It includes the suburbs of
Inala,
Ellen Grove,
Forest Lake,
Doolandella,
Durack,
Wacol
Wacol is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wacol had a population of 3,761 people.
Geography
Wacol is bounded to the west by the Brisbane River and to the north loosely by Wolston Creek. It is south-west of t ...
,
Richlands and parts of
Oxley Oxley may refer to:
Places
Australia
Australian Capital Territory
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Queensland
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** Oxley railway station, Brisba ...
. It borders the electoral districts of
Mount Ommaney
Mount Ommaney is a south-western riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The mountain of the same name is located within the locality (). In the , Mount Ommaney had a population of 2,360 people.
Geography
Mount Omman ...
,
Miller
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,
Algester,
Jordan
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,
Bundamba
Bundamba is a suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the Bundamba had a population of 6,514 people.
Geography
The Bremer River forms the western part of the suburb's northern boundary. The Warrego Highway enter ...
and
Moggill
Moggill is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Moggill had a population of 4,641 people.
Geography
Moggill is about by from the Brisbane GPO.
The Brisbane River bounds the suburb to the east, south and west w ...
.
The Inala electoral district was created in the 1990 redistribution as part of the
one vote one value
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reforms under
Wayne Goss
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, and was contested for the first time at the
1992 election.
For its entire existence, it has been held by the
Labor Party.
Henry Palaszczuk
Heinrich Palaszczuk (, Polish: ; born 12 January 1947) is a former Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, and minister of the Beattie Government of Queensland. He was elected as the member for Archerfield in 1984, and held tha ...
, the seat's first member, transferred from
Archerfield to Inala upon Inala's creation in 1992. He went on to become a senior minister in the
Beattie government. Henry retired in 2006 and handed the seat to his daughter and current member,
Annastacia Palaszczuk
Annastacia Palaszczuk ( , Polish: Annastacia Pałaszczuk, ; born 25 July 1969) is an Australian politician who has been the 39th premier of Queensland since 2015 and the leader of the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since ...
, who has been the
Premier of Queensland
The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.
By convention the premier is the leader of the party with a parliamentary majority in the unicameral Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The premier is ap ...
since 2015.
For most of its existence, Inala has been a comfortably safe Labor seat, and on several occasions it was ''the'' safest Labor seat in the state. The only time the Labor hold on Inala was seriously threatened was in
2012
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, when Annastacia lost over 17 percent of her primary vote from
2009
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–to date, the only time that Labor hasn't won the seat outright on the primary vote. She suffered a 14-point two-party swing, reducing her majority to 6.2 percent. Annastacia was elected as leader of what remained of Labor, and led her party back to government in
2015
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. Along the way, she reverted Inala to its traditional status as a comfortably safe Labor seat; her majority ballooned to 25 percent, the second-safest seat in the entire chamber. She consolidated her majority in
2017
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and
2020
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, and now sits on a majority of 28.1 percent, the safest seat in the state.
Members for Inala
Election results
References
{{Electoral districts of Queensland
Inala