Miles slams ‘corrupted’ electoral map redraw, as Labor, Katter MPs lose seats

That would have accommodated south-east Queensland’s population growth without robbing north Queensland of one of its valuable parliamentary voices.”A second new seat, Springfield, will absorb some of the rapid population growth around Ipswich. Qld parliament’s big questionThe commission is made up of State Development director-general John Sosso, Electoral Commissioner Pat Vidgen, and former judge Gregory Koppenol as chair. Sosso’s selection by the government has riled the Labor opposition, and others.Tony Fitzgerald, who led the landmark Fitzgerald inquiry in the late 1980s, warned last year of a return to the “bad old days” of “biased electoral boundaries” after Sosso’s appointment.