 Location: At more than half a million square kilometres, Kennedy is the biggest electorate in Queensland and third-biggest in Australia. In fact, it is more than two and a half times the size of Victoria!
It also covers one of the most diverse areas of the country, stretching from the Gulf of Carpentaria and Mareeba in the north to Boulia in the south, and from the Queensland/Northern Territory border to the Pacific Ocean.
Major centres include Atherton, Babinda, Camooweal, Charters Towers,
Cloncurry, Georgetown, Gordonvale, Hughenden, Ingham, Innisfail, Mareeba, Mount Isa, Normanton and Tully.
Bob visits each of these centres as often as possible supporting the hard-working people in industries such as sugar, tobacco, dairy, fishing, horticulture, mining and cattle and sheep production.
Area: 564,701sq km
Electors enrolled: 90,196 at February 28, 2007
Industry: Primary industries and mining make up the core basis of the electorate economy. It has a diversity of industries, people and businesses, covering extensive sugar-cane production along its highly fertile eastern seaboard and on the Atherton Tableland, to cattle, dairy, fruit, sheep and the massive mineral deposits of the Mount Isa and surrounding area.
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