Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I will speak briefly to the Australian Electoral Commission report. I will highlight again for senators and for the commission the stupidity of the most recent redistribution in Queensland. Where I live up in the north of Queensland there is an electorate, Dawson, based upon Mackay. It has been held by Mr Bidgood of the Australian Labor Party for a little while. He has, of course, announced his retirement for personal reasons. I am told that the personal reasons were that the polling was showing that he could not possibly win.