15 December 2009
Dawson
Queensland
Current, boundary gazetted 15 December 2009 (former divisional profile)
Contact the Dawson AEC divisional office
Named after Andrew (Anderson) Dawson 1863–1910, Queensland's first Labor Premier 1899.
Dawson covers an area of approximately 14 945 sq km from Mackay to Chelona in the south, and to Oonoonba in the north. It also includes the Whitsunday and Lindeman group of islands. Main towns include Proserpine, Airlie Beach, Bowen, Home Hill and Ayr, as well as the city of Mackay.
Various small crops, prawn and fish farms, sugar growing and refining, beef cattle, coal mining related industries, abattoirs and tourism.
1949
Rural
Please refer to the Parliament of Australia website
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