User:Wikistar2

I have finally decided to succumb to the pressure to stop editing with my IP address and use a username. Im not a creative person as I stole this name from another user, hope they dont mind! Wikistar (Place order here) 05:43, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

I just realised it but for some reason I accidentally logged in with my Commons user name and started editing and it worked until I figured out what I had done. So the edits under User:Wikistar02 are also mine. Wikistar (Place order here) 12:52, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

New S.A members

Rachel Sanderson

Rachel Sanderson
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 March 2010
Preceded by	Jane Lomax-Smith
Constituency	Adelaide
Personal details
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Liberal Party
Education	S.A University
Profession	Politician/ Management

Rachel Sanderson (born 00-00-0000) is an Australian politician representing the electoral district of Adelaide for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2010.

Sanderson has a Bachelor of Arts in Accountancy from the University of South Australia. She has lived in Adelaide since 1983, she owns a small Model Management and Training business within her Adelaide electorate. She was elected to the South Australian Legislative Assembly at the 2010 South Australian State election recieving a massive swing of 15.7% two party perferred to claim the safe Labor Party seat from incumbent Jane Lomax-Smith.

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Tim Whetstone

Tim Whetstone
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 March 2010
Preceded by	Karlene Maywald
Constituency	Chaffey
Personal details
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Liberal Party
Profession	Politician/ irragator

Time Whetstone (born 00-00-0000) is an Australian politician representing the electoral district of Chaffey for the Liberal Party since 2010.

Whetstone started work as a fitter and turner at Holdens after school and worked his way up to be a Project Manager in the Moomba gas fields while developing his own business building and restoring muscle cars and boats.He moved to the Riverland in 1989 where he started his citrus and winegrape business.

Whetstone was elected to the board of the Renmark Irrigation Trust in 1998 and has been working to secure a better deal on water for food producers since that time. He contested the 2010 South Australian State election for the Liberal Party, recieving a massive swing of 21.4% two party perferred to claim the safe Nationals seat from incumbent Karlene Maywald.

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John Gardner (Australian politician)

John Gardner
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 March 2010
Preceded by	Lindsay Simmons
Constituency	Morialta
Personal details
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Liberal Party
Education	University of Adelaide
Profession	Politician

John Gardner (born 00-00-0000) is an Australian politician representing the electoral district of Morialta for the Liberal Party of Australia.

Gardner currently lives in his childhood suburb of Rostrevor within the electorate of Morialta. He defeated incumbent Labor Party member Lindsay Simmons at the 2010 South Australian State election receiving a two party preffered swing of 11.4% in the formerly fairly safe Labor seat.

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Steven Marshall

Steven Marshall
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 March 2010
Preceded by	Vini Ciccarello
Constituency	Norwood
Personal details
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Liberal Party
Education	University of South Australia
Profession	Politician

Steven Marshall (born 00-00-0000) is an Australian politician representing the electoral district of Norwood for the Liberal Party of Australia.

Marshall had lived in the Norwood area for most of his adult life before entering parliament. He studied for a Bachelor of Business at the University of South Australia and completed an MBA at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

Marshall has been active in community service his entire life he is currently on the Board of the Spastic Centre of South Australia. In 2001 he received a Centenary of Federation Medal for services to the disability sector. He has two children: Charlie and Georgie.

Current QLD pendulum

Composition of the Parliament of Queensland
Political Party	Legislative Assembly
ALP	51
LNP	34
Independent	4
Source: Queensland Electoral Commission

LABOR SEATS Australian Labor Party Marginal Mount Waverley Maxine Morand ALP 0.3% Gembrook Tammy Lobato ALP 0.7% Forest Hill Kirstie Marshall ALP 0.8% Melbourne Bronwyn Pike ALP v GRN 1.93% Mitcham Tony Robinson ALP 2.0% South Barwon Michael Crutchfield ALP 2.3% Frankston Alistair Harkness ALP 3.2% Mordialloc Janice Munt ALP 3.5% Brunswick Carlo Carli ALP v GRN 3.6% Prahran Tony Lupton ALP 3.6% Richmond Richard Wynne ALP v GRN 3.6% Burwood Bob Stensholt ALP 3.7% Ripon Joe Helper ALP 4.3% Bendigo East Jacinta Allan ALP 5.4% Fairly safe Bentleigh Rob Hudson ALP 6.3% Ballarat West Karen Overington ALP 6.5% Eltham Steve Herbert ALP 6.5% Ballarat East Geoff Howard ALP 6.6% Carrum Jenny Lindell ALP 6.7% Monbulk James Merlino ALP 6.7% Seymour Ben Hardman ALP 6.7% Bellarine Lisa Neville ALP 7.9% Yan Yean Danielle Green ALP 7.9% Altona Jill Hennessy ALP 7.93% Macedon Joanne Duncan ALP 8.2% Geelong Ian Trezise ALP 8.3% Northcote Fiona Richardson ALP v GRN 8.5% Narre Warren North Luke Donnellan ALP 9.2% Albert Park Martin Foley ALP 9.5% Safe Ivanhoe Craig Langdon ALP 10.4% Bendigo West Bob Cameron ALP 10.6% Narre Warren South Judith Graley ALP 10.9% Niddrie Rob Hulls ALP 11.2% Cranbourne Jude Perera ALP 11.3% Essendon Judy Maddigan ALP 11.7% Oakleigh Ann Barker ALP 12.4% Tarneit Tim Pallas ALP 12.5% Melton Don Nardella ALP 13.5% Bundoora Colin Brooks ALP 15.1% Mulgrave Daniel Andrews ALP 15.8% Lara John Eren ALP 17.9% Dandenong John Pandazopoulos ALP 18.7% Keilor George Seitz ALP 19.4% Very safe Yuroke Liz Beattie ALP 20.2% Clayton Hong Lim ALP 20.3% Mill Park Lily D'Ambrosio ALP 20.8% Lyndhurst Tim Holding ALP 21.5% Pascoe Vale Christine Campbell ALP 22.8% Derrimut Telmo Languiller ALP 24.3% Williamstown Wade Noonan ALP 24.3% Footscray Bruce Mildenhall ALP 24.7% Preston Robin Scott ALP 25.3% Kororoit Marlene Kairouz ALP 25.6% Thomastown Peter Batchelor ALP 31.1% Broadmeadows John Brumby ALP 31.9%

LIBERAL NATIONAL SEATS File:Lnp logo.PNG Marginal Ferntree Gully Nick Wakeling LIB 0.04% Kilsyth David Hodgett LIB 0.4% Hastings Neale Burgess LIB 1.0% Morwell Russell Northe NAT 2.2% Narracan Gary Blackwood LIB 2.7% Evelyn Christine Fyffe LIB 2.18% Bayswater Heidi Victoria LIB 2.9% South-West Coast Denis Napthine LIB 4.0% Bass Ken Smith LIB 4.5% Box Hill Robert Clark LIB 5.2% Fairly safe Caulfield Helen Shardey LIB 7.6% Benambra Bill Tilley LIB 7.7% Doncaster Mary Wooldridge LIB 8.1% Bulleen Nick Kotsiras LIB 8.4% Sandringham Murray Thompson LIB 8.7% Warrandyte Ryan Smith LIB 9.0% Nepean Martin Dixon LIB 9.4% Kew Andrew McIntosh LIB 9.6% Safe Polwarth Terry Mulder LIB 10.7% Brighton Louise Asher LIB 10.9% Scoresby Kim Wells LIB 11.2% Malvern Michael O'Brien LIB 11.3% Mornington David Morris LIB 11.9% Hawthorn Ted Baillieu LIB 12.3% Gippsland South Peter Ryan NAT 15.8% Benalla Bill Sykes NAT 17.7% Very safe Mildura Peter Crisp NAT 20.7% Murray Valley Ken Jasper NAT 21.8% Lowan Hugh Delahunty NAT 22.1% Swan Hill Peter Walsh NAT 23.4% Shepparton Jeanette Powell NAT 24.7% Rodney Paul Weller NAT 24.8% Independents Gippsland East Craig Ingram IND v LIB 9.1%

QLD Polling

Newspoll polling was conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas. Sampling sizes usually consist of around 1000 electors, with the declared margin of error at around ±3 percent.

Better Premier ratings^

Date	Labor Bligh	Coalition/LNP Springborg
18 – 19 Mar 2009	53%	33%
27 Feb – 8 Mar 2009	48%	34%
Jan – Feb 2009	48%	31%
Oct – Dec 2008	49%	30%
Jul – Sep 2008	53%	27%
Apr – Jun 2008	60%	24%
Jan – Mar 2008	64%	18%
Oct – Dec 2007	66%	11%2
Jul – Sep 2007	54%1	25%2
Apr – Jun 2007	54%1	19%2
Pre 2006 election	58%1	28%
Pre 2004 election	62%1	22%
Polling conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian. ^ Remainder were "uncommitted" to either leader. 1 Peter Beattie, 2 Jeff Seeney

Legislative Assembly opinion polling

	Political parties							Two party preferred
	ALP	Lib	Nat	Coa/LNP	Grn	FFP	Oth	ALP	LNP
18 – 19 Mar 2009	42%			42%	7%	0.5%	8%	50%	50%
27 Feb – 8 Mar 2009	41%			43%	8%	<0.5%	8%	49%	51%
Jan – Feb 2009	42%			41%	7%	<0.5%	10%	53%	47%
Oct – Dec 2008	45%			37%	8%	<0.5%	10%	57%	43%
Jul – Sep 2008	38%			41%	9%	1%	11%	51%	49%
Apr – Jun 2008	43%	26%	12%	38%	10%	<0.5%	9%	55%	45%
Jan – Mar 2008	50%	22%	10%	32%	8%	<0.5%	10%	60%	40%
Oct – Dec 2007	50%	26%	9%	35%	6%	1%	8%	59%	41%
Jul – Sep 2007	50%	21%	12%	33%	5%	2%	10%	59%	41%
Apr – Jun 2007	51%	20%	11%	31%	6%	1%	11%	61%	39%
2006 Election	46.9%	20.1%	17.8%	37.9%	8.0%	1.9%	5.3%	54.9%	45.1%
6 – 7 Sep 2006	48%	21%	17%	38%	4%	1%	9%	55%	45%
2004 Election	47%	18.5%	17%	35.5%	6.7%	4.9%	5.9%	55.5%	44.5%
Polling conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian.

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