Monarch Glen is a rural

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in the

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, Australia. It is situated along the development corridor south of Brisbane in the

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development area and is one of four new suburbs that have been created in Logan to house a predicted population boom between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. In the , Monarch Glen had "no people or a very low population".

History

Monarch Glen is situated in the Bundjalung traditional

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country. The origin of the suburb name is from the monarch butterfly (

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), which is found locally. It was approved and designated as a locality within the Logan City by the

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on 20 May 2016. The redistribution of the state’s electoral boundaries in 2017 led to the suburb being part of the Jordan electoral district.

Demographics

In the , Monarch Glen had "no people or a very low population".

References

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