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Sydney Morning Herald
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘Ripe for a teal candidate': Inside Queensland's bluest Greens seat
Three years on from Brisbane's 'Greenslide', three seats are in the firing line as the next federal election approaches. But while the party's weakest seat, Ryan, might be leafy, locals aren't so sure it's still Green. Established as an electorate in 1949, Ryan was a blue seat – that is, held by the conservative Liberal Party or its Queensland successor, the LNP – for all but 11 months in 2001 until the Greens' Elizabeth Watson-Brown won in 2022. The electorate covers two dozen suburbs, from urban riverside areas near the University of Queensland campus to more affluent suburbs where at least 80 per cent of residents are homeowners. University of Queensland political economist Professor Shahar Hameiri not only works in Ryan, he also lives there, in the semi-rural suburb of Brookfield on Brisbane's western fringe. Corflutes supporting the Greens pepper the electorate's roadsides, but Hameiri said that didn't reflect the reality for Brookfield voters, who favoured the LNP by 61 per cent at the last election. Across the electorate, Watson-Brown's first preference count lagged 8.3 per cent behind then-incumbent LNP member Julian Simmonds, and her final lead was a slim 2.6 per cent.
The Age
25-04-2025
- Politics
- The Age
‘Ripe for a teal candidate': Inside Queensland's bluest Greens seat
Three years on from Brisbane's 'Greenslide', three seats are in the firing line as the next federal election approaches. But while the party's weakest seat, Ryan, might be leafy, locals aren't so sure it's still Green. Established as an electorate in 1949, Ryan was a blue seat – that is, held by the conservative Liberal Party or its Queensland successor, the LNP – for all but 11 months in 2001 until the Greens' Elizabeth Watson-Brown won in 2022. The electorate covers two dozen suburbs, from urban riverside areas near the University of Queensland campus to more affluent suburbs where at least 80 per cent of residents are homeowners. University of Queensland political economist Professor Shahar Hameiri not only works in Ryan, he also lives there, in the semi-rural suburb of Brookfield on Brisbane's western fringe. Corflutes supporting the Greens pepper the electorate's roadsides, but Hameiri said that didn't reflect the reality for Brookfield voters, who favoured the LNP by 61 per cent at the last election. Across the electorate, Watson-Brown's first preference count lagged 8.3 per cent behind then-incumbent LNP member Julian Simmonds, and her final lead was a slim 2.6 per cent.
