Division of Fisher

This article is about the Australian federal electorate. For the South Australian state electorate, see Electoral district of Fisher.

Fisher Australian House of Representatives Division
Interactive map of boundaries
Created	1949
MP	Andrew Wallace
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	Andrew Fisher
Electors	125,902 (2022)
Area	1,198 km2 (462.6 sq mi)
Demographic	Provincial

The Division of Fisher is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

Geography

Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.

History

Andrew Fisher, the division's namesake

The division was created in 1949 and is named after Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia on three non-consecutive occasions within the first two decades following Federation. It is located in the Sunshine Coast area north of Brisbane and includes the towns of Caloundra, Mooloolaba, Beerwah, Maleny, Woodford and Kilcoy.

As originally created, it extended as far inland as Kingaroy, but gradually moved eastward from the 1960s onward to become an entirely Sunshine Coast-based seat. It was a safe seat for the National Party until the 1980s. However, some of its more conservative territory was shifted to the new seat of Fairfax in 1984, replaced by some more marginal territory in the outer northern suburbs of Brisbane. On these boundaries, Labor took the seat in 1987.

The Brisbane portion was removed in 1993 (mostly going to the new seat of Dickson), erasing Labor's majority and making Fisher notionally Liberal. The Liberals took the seat in 1993, and have held it for all but two years since then without much difficulty. To date, it is the last time Labor has held a Sunshine Coast seat.

Its most prominent members have been Sir Charles Adermann, who was Deputy Leader of the Country Party 1964–66, and Peter Slipper, who served as Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2011 to 2012. Following the resignation of Harry Jenkins as Speaker in the 43rd Parliament, Peter Slipper was nominated unopposed and installed as Speaker on 24 November 2011. Slipper resigned from the Liberal National Party on taking the Speaker's seat and continued in parliament as an independent member and resigned as speaker and went to the cross bench on 9 October 2012. On 11 May 2013, he joined businessman Clive Palmer's recently formed Palmer United Party, becoming its first member in federal parliament. However, a matter of hours later his membership of the party was revoked and Slipper returned to being an independent.

Members

	Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Sir Charles Adermann (1896–1979)	Country	10 December 1949 – 2 November 1972	Previously held the Division of Maranoa. Served as minister under Menzies and Holt. Retired. Son was Evan Adermann
		Evan Adermann (1927–2001)		2 December 1972 – 2 May 1975	Served as minister under Fraser. Transferred to the Division of Fairfax. Father was Sir Charles Adermann
			National Country	2 May 1975 – 16 October 1982
			Nationals	16 October 1982 – 1 December 1984
		Peter Slipper (1950–)		1 December 1984 – 11 July 1987	Lost seat
		Michael Lavarch (1961–)	Labor	11 July 1987 – 13 March 1993	Transferred to the Division of Dickson
		Peter Slipper (1950–)	Liberal	13 March 1993 – 19 July 2010	Served as Speaker during the Gillard Government. Lost seat
			Liberal National	19 July 2010 – 24 November 2011
			Independent	24 November 2011 – 11 May 2013
			Palmer United	11 May 2013 – 11 May 2013
			Independent	11 May 2013 – 7 September 2013
		Mal Brough (1961–)	Liberal National	7 September 2013 – 9 May 2016	Previously held the Division of Longman. Served as minister under Turnbull. Retired
		Andrew Wallace (1968–)		2 July 2016 – present	Served as Speaker during the Morrison Government. Incumbent

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Fisher

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Australian federal election in Queensland § Fisher.[edit]

2022 Australian federal election: Fisher

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Andrew Wallace	48,013	44.25	−5.79
	Labor	Judene Andrews	25,313	23.33	+1.11
	Greens	Renay Wells	14,981	13.81	+1.40
	One Nation	Sam Schriever	10,102	9.31	+0.63
	United Australia	Tony Moore	7,355	6.78	+3.32
	Animal Justice	Vickie Breckenridge	2,730	2.52	+2.52
Total formal votes			108,494	96.85	+1.65
Informal votes			3,530	3.15	−1.65
Turnout			112,024	89.07	−2.89
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Andrew Wallace	63,656	58.67	−4.03
	Labor	Judene Andrews	44,838	41.33	+4.03
	Liberal National hold		Swing	−4.03

External links

• Division of Fisher (Qld) — Australian Electoral Commission