Redland Bay, Queensland Redland Bay, Queensland Redland Bay is a township at the southern end of Redland City, Queensland, Australia. Redland Bay is some 35 km (22 miles) south-east of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. The township is named for the bay it sits on, which forms part of larger Moreton Bay. The Aboriginal name for the Redland Bay region was Talwalpin after the cottonwood tree which was widespread in the area. Since the first European settlers arrived in the mid-19th century, Redland Bay has remained a farming and fishing-based area until the mid-20th century when some of the farms were subdivided
National Party of Australia – Queensland the Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division) in 1949. A pattern was set in the 1944 state election whereby the Country Party secured fewer votes but more seats than the People's Party; this pattern would continue into the 1970s. Nicklin would continue to lead the party to defeat over five successive elections, but there seemed little prospect of defeating Labour, especially after the introduction of a malapportionment that significantly varied the size of electorates in different zones of the state. In 1957 the Labor Party in Queensland was engulfed in the split that had been growing in the party across