Marginal 0.8%, 4.4 per cent after 2018 by-election

Incumbent MP
Susan Lamb (Labor) since the 2016, though Lamb resigned in mid-2018 over a Section 44 disqualification and was re-elected at a July 2018 by-election.

Geography
Longman is a predominantly urban electorate covering areas between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. The seat’s major centres include Caboolture, Burpengary, Narangba and Bribie Island, though it also stretches inland to include Woodford and Mount Mee. Covers 1,237 square kilometres.

Redistribution
No change.

History

Longman was created in 1996 and named after Mrs Irene Longman, who was the first woman elected to the Queensland Parliament, holding the seat of Bulimba 1929-32.

Longman was won at its first contest by the Liberal Party’s Mal Brough. He retained the seat through numerous boundary changes and rose to serve as Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Services in the final term of the Howard government, being responsible for implementing the intervention into Northern Territory indigenous communities.

At the 2004 election, the Coalition’s campaign against Mark Latham on interest rates paid dividends in seats like Longman as Brough took his margin out into double figures. However, a redistribution and a 10.3% swing in 2007 revealed the true marginal status of Longman, Brough becoming the highest profile ministerial defeat of the election, apart from John Howard’s own defeat in Bennelong. Brough was to return as member for Fisher at the 2013 election before retiring in 2016.

Longman was won by Labor’s Jon Sullivan in 2007, a former state MP whose wife represented a local state seat while Sullivan served as Federal MP. Sullivan received some advantage in 2010 with the LNP pre-selection of the youthful Wyatt Roy as its candidate, but this advantage was nullified by bad headlines concerning a dispute between Sullivan and a constituent at a public forum. Roy won the seat, becoming the youngest person ever elected to the House of Representatives.

Still only 26, Wyatt Roy faced re-election in 2016 after being appointed Assistant Minister for Innovation when Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister. He was defeated by a 7.7% swing, the largest in any Queensland seat that finished as a two-party contest. Only Family First voters favoured him in the distribution of preferences, with One Nation recommending preferences to Labor and 56.5% of One Nation voters following the advice.

Labor’s Susan Lamb was elected but faced questions over her eligibility to be an MP due to inherited UK citizenship. Longman became one of the five by-elections held in July 2018, Lamb easily re-elected as the LNP vote fell 8.7% with swings to both Labor and One Nation. The result played a part in the LNP moving to back Peter Dutton’s challenge to Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership.

Local issues: Unemployment, health, aged care and retirees’ concerns

Assessment
Longman is still a marginal seat. While the by-election result suggests Lamb is likely to be re-elected, that is far from guaranteed.

Candidates in order on the ballot paper

 National and State Links:

Liberal Party of Australia Website, Liberal Party of Australia Wikipedia Entry,

Liberal Party of Australia Facebook site , LNP Website, LNP Twitter account, LNP Facebook , LNP Wikipedia Entry,

LNP All Federal Canidates,

Candidate Profile:

Interview recorded April 29

Contact Phone 0432 867 946 and email longman@lnpq.org.au , facebook https://www.facebook.com/Terry4Longman/

Born and bred in Kallangur. Has lived between Kallangur and Sunshine Coast his entire life including Narangba, Caboolture and Morayfield in the electorate.

Family man with wife Alexandra, 4 children and 5 grand children.

Attended Kallangur State School and Dakabin State High School. Mother a school teacher, father a jounalist.

Has always been a sports lover playing for North Pine Soccer Club, Bribie Island Rugby League Club, Caboolture Soccer Club, Caboolture Indoor Cricket and Caboolture Golf Club. Is still a member at Caboolture Golf Club and still plays for the Caboolture Soccer Club.

Started as a storeperson and salesperson on minimum wages and worked his way up to management, managing the Chandlers store at Cabooluture in 1991.

Opened and owned The Good Guys in Morayfield in 2001 employing 55 locals.

Believes 35 years in retail serving the public is the best training a politician can have.

If elected, wants to bring “common sense” to politics and still thinks like an everyday Australian, not a politician.

National & State Links:

Party Website: https://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/

Candidate Profile:

Studio Interview April 24, 2019

Candidate Profiule on Party Website: https://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/candidates/bailey-maher/, or email Longman@unitedaustraliaparty.org.au

Born in Nambour, Queensland, and having lived in various states around Australia, Bailey currently resides in Caboolture where he cares for members of his family.

He was raised by a single mother and worked for a major retail store. Billy is passionate about politics, joining the United Australia Party to offer an alternative to the current status quo where too many Australians are falling through the cracks.

National & State Links:

Party Website http://www.progressives.org.au/ 

Candidate Profile:

Jono Young is the Australian Progressives endorsed candidate for the Division of Longman.

I am a husband and father of three, i’m a chippy by trade with close to 15 years of experience in the construction and manufacturing industries were I have worked in factories to large scale civil infrastructure sites and everything in between.

I am putting my hand up to represent Longman because for far too long we have seen politicians and the major parties putting the interests of big money donors ahead of the Australian people.

I joined the Progressives in 2014, the core values of the party of Ethics, Empathy, Equality, Evidence, Engagement and Empowerment should be front and center in all aspects of public service. Politics has become an exercise in who can shout their opinion the loudest and enough times to get noticed and elected, we as a country deserve to be represented by people that will follow facts and evidence to find innovative solutions to the problems we face.

Authorised by R. Knight, 24/B Harpur Pl, Garran, ACT, 2605

Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Jono4Longman/

National & State Links:

Australia Labor Party Website, Australian Labor Party Wikipedia Entry,Australian Labor Party Facebook ,

Queensland Labor Party Website,  Queensland Labor Party Wikipedia Entry, Queensland Labor Party Facebook,

Queensland Labor Party Twitter,

Candidate Profile:

Lamb worked in the education sector for 26 years before her election to parliament, working as a teacher aide before becoming a lead organiser with United Voice in 2012. Lamb was born in Australia but inherited UK citizenship through her late father. Lamb stated she was estranged from her mother at a young age and so had been unable to obtain a copy of her parent’s marriage certificate to prove her descent, resulting in the British government rejecting her renunciation attempt. Some of this detail was later disputed, but the High Court’s judgment in the Katy Gallagher case left Lamb little option but to resign from Parliament. She was re-elected at one of the five by-elections in July 2018.

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National & State Links:

Party Website: https://australiafirstparty.net/

Candidate Profile:

Candidate Website : https://australiafirstparty.net/peter-schuback-is-our-candidate-for-longman-in-the-2019-federal-election/

This is our local bloke on the ground in Queensland, long time member of Australia First Party, Mr Peter Schuback, who is our candidate for the Seat of Longman in the 2019 Federal Election.

The party also contested that electorate in the by-election last July.  Peter has been a candidate for Australia First before for the Senate in 2010 and 2013 and for Fraser Coast City Regional Council.

Peter will face the joke party of Clive Palmer and some other minor playactors – and of course, the major parties of globalist capital.

Peter is a native born and bred Queensland nationalist and community activist.  We will publish Peter’s activist biography in the near future.

He’s a professional long distance truck driver of many years.   As the Vice President of the Australian Long Distance Owners’ And Drivers’ Association, he was a major player in the Transport Shutdown of 2008 and in other transport struggles. In particular, he has been a strong advocate of resistance to unjust traffic and other fines and has organized a process to question fines. He has saved drivers hundreds of thousands of dollars. He has also been noted for a fight waged against asbestos in Queensland school buildings.

It is expected our candidate will campaign actively to garner community support. It will be a fight to get attention ahead of the blunderbuss Palmer United Australia Party and the Liberal satellite known as One Nation, but we have a determined team.

Peter Schuback is married with six adult children and a teenager and is a strong supporter of traditional family mores.

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Party Website

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Matthew Thompson Bio : At the age of 17, Matthew Thomson joined the Army Reserves where he served a number of periods on full time service. He credits the Army with instilling a drive and respect of others and self that pervades his life to this day.

Living north of Brisbane for close to 20 years, Matthew has always loved this corner of the world.

“The closeness to Moreton Bay, being able to easily reach out to the Sunshine Coast, the ability to explore phenomenal locations such as Mount Mee and the D’Aguilar Ranges, the beaches of Bribie Island and having all of that with easy access to the services of a city; as far as I’m concerned there’s nowhere better.”

Matthew says that out of everything, he cherishes time spent with his family, exploring and enjoying everything the region has to offer.

“You feel alive when you’re getting out and seeing this country. Living here gives us so much opportunity to do that and I’m incredibly grateful to have seen a lot of it with my wife & children.

Matthew grew up as a child in the well known rough and tumble Western Suburbs of Sydney. The media has only recently exposed the social breakdown in suburbs like Bankstown, Liverpool and Lakemba.

Making a career out of truck driving, Matthew spent countless hours criss crossing Australia’s biggest and most congested city in his earlier years.

“Peak hour was 24/7. There was no stopping. It’s not really fitting to just say somewhere was congested, you’d have a much harder time naming a place that wasn’t completely gridlocked.”

Matthew found the lifestyle in Sydney undesirable and unaffordable. The easy and friendly lifestyle in Queensland had always been attractive, so in 1997 Matthew & his wife purchased their first home on the Redcliffe peninsula.

“While I think growing up where I did made me everything I am today, I consider myself lucky to have moved away from that environment which had changed dramatically from when I was a kid. I didn’t want to raise a family in such a rough and tumble place.”

“I wanted to raise my kids to have real life skills and common sense, I didn’t think I needed to put them through the same school of hard knocks I had to go through to give them that.

“It really brings home how important One Nation’s policy of only bringing in as many immigrants as our infrastructure can handle and properly vetting the people we bring into this country is.”

While he loves the Burpengary area he now lives in and believes it has been an incredible place to raise his family, Matthew is concerned that the lifestyle he and many others in Longman have worked so hard for is being eroded away by an out of touch government.

“For starters our servicemen and women should not have to fight tooth and nail for medical or financial assistance. The members of our ADF have already fought for our freedom and security, with some paying the ultimate price.”

“It’s about time our government got serious about supporting current serving and past members of the ADF. We have a mental health epidemic sweeping through our defence services and they need our unconditional support to overcome it.”

“Retirees who have already contributed to our society for their entire life should be the last people, a government that can’t keep their own spending under control goes after. Let’s raise the pension, keep the family home out of the assets test and stay out of retirees nest eggs.”

“We need to equip our educators with better conditions and provide them with the tools to identify young adults that would be better directed to apprenticeships and trades as a career path.

“One Nation has a long history of supporting trades and apprenticeships, including our wage subsidy scheme where the government covers 75% of the apprentice’s first year wage, 50% of the second year and 25% of the third year to help businesses train more Australian skilled workers.”

While Matthew believes politicians are taking us down the wrong path on many issues, he says it’s not too late to start making decisions for the people and get this country back on track.

“We’ve worked hard over decades to build our life here in Longman. I think everyone in Longman deserves everything when it comes to working hard and building a prosperous lifestyle.”

“Almost everyone I’m talking to is saying the same thing. The current crop of politicians are not doing the job right and they’re leaving millions of us Australians behind in the dirt.

“You need people in Parliament who have the guts to say what you’re thinking. That’s what I want to be for Longman. I hope I can rely on your support to make that happen”

facebook site https://www.facebook.com/thomsonforlongman/

 National & State Links:

Greens Party Federal Website, Greens Party Federal Wikipedia Entry, Greens Party Federal Facebook,

Greens Party Queensland Website, Greens Party Queensland Wikipedia Entry, Greens Party Queensland Facebook,

Candidate Profile:

Email Simone Dejun simone.dejun@qld.greens.org.au,  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SimoneDejun/

https://www.conservativenationalparty.org/team

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