[1] It includes the suburbs of Algester, Parkinson, Hillcrest, Boronia Heights, Forestdale, Larapinta, Heathwood, Forest Lake, Doolandella and Pallara, as well as the Greenbank Military Range.

It borders the electoral districts of Sunnybank, Stretton, Logan, Lockyer, Bundamba and Inala.

It had been a safe seat for the Labor Party since its inception, as had Archerfield, but it was won by Anthony Shorten of the Liberal National Party at the 2012 election.

Leeanne Enoch won the seat back for Labor at the 2015 election.

Enoch is the first Indigenous Australian woman elected to the Queensland parliament.