Scarborough, Queensland Scarborough, Queensland Scarborough is a residential suburb of the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. Scarborough is at the northernmost of the Redcliffe peninsula, approximately north-northeast of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. The suburb used to act as a gateway to Moreton Island via the Combie Trader barge, but this service was recently sold. In the , Scarborough recorded a population of 7,986 people, 52.3% female and 47.7% male. The median age of the Scarborough population was 45 years, 8 years above the national median of 37. 71.3% of people living in Scarborough were born in Australia. The other
Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division) first winning the post in the 1985 election with Sallyanne Atkinson. The party also won a majority on the council and held both in the 1988 election. Following Atkinson's defeat in the 1991 election, the Liberals did not win the mayoralty again until the 2004 election when Campbell Newman won the post but with a Labor majority on the council. Newman was re-elected in 2008, this time with a Liberal majority on the council. Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division) The Liberal Party, originally the Queensland People's Party, was a political party in Queensland, Australia, from the Second World War