Sunday, April 13, 2008

Oops! Hervey Bay not in electorate of Wide Bay

Fraser Coast residents have been declared the happiest in Australia, according to the Fraser Coast Regional Council's website. Mayor Mick Kruger said he was not surprised.
The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index report found, for the second year running, that the federal electorate of Wide Bay had the nation's highest level of personal wellbeing

Did someone mention the Wide Bay? Unhappily, the Fraser Coast's most populous city, Hervey Bay now belongs in the federal electorate of Hinkler while most of the remainder of the region along with Noosa sits in the federal electorate of Wide Bay. Where did Hinkler sit on the index? 

Perhaps the council's media officer should have checked that out and also included the Hinkler result in his media release before the mayor jumped on the bandwagon and claimed the result for himself.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

A quick phone call to the professor at Deakin who conducted the survey would have cleared the issue up.
The data was gathered prior to electoral redistribution so the results do in fact include Hervey Bay, though on a map it is no longer part of the Wide Bay.
Cheers

Anonymous said...

If the data was gathered prior to redistribution (that was months ago), what relevance does it have now? The results under the current conditions could well be totally different.