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";s:4:"text";s:5162:"Melbourne Ports has been held by the Australian Labor Party since 1906. It was located to the south of Melbourne's central business district and covered an area of approximately 40 km around the north and north-eastern shores of Port Phillip Bay. [3], Coordinates: 37°51′22″S 144°58′34″E / 37.856°S 144.976°E / -37.856; 144.976, Former Australian federal electoral division, Electoral results for the Division of Melbourne Ports, http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/CED232?opendocument, "Victoria gets new seat named after Malcolm Fraser, ACT gains one called Bean", https://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/vic/macnamara.htm, Division of Melbourne Ports - Australian Electoral Commission, Australian Capital and Northern Territories, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Division_of_Melbourne_Ports&oldid=959911069, Short description is different from Wikidata, Use Australian English from September 2017, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Retired after Melbourne Ports was abolished in 2019, This page was last edited on 31 May 2020, at 05:49. It was located to the south of Melbourne's central business district and covered an area of approximately 40 km2 around the north and north-eastern shores of Port Phillip Bay. It also had a high proportion of atheists and agnostics, with 38.8% of residents answering "No Religion" in the 2016 census, compared to 30.1% nationwide. Originally, it was anchored in the industrial suburbs in the west of the electorate, which are part of Labor's heartland in west Melbourne. In 2016, Labor actually suffered a primary vote swing of four percent and a two-party swing of two percent even as it nearly reduced the Coalition to minority government nationally. The Division of Melbourne consists of: part of the Melbourne City Council, part of the Moonee Valley City Council, Please refer to the Parliament of Australia website. The settlement of Port Phillip was named 'Melbourne' on 5 March 1837 in honour of Lord Melbourne who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the time. Find information about council services for residents, businesses, tourists and the overall community. It included Port Melbourne, but also included a number of middle and upper middle class suburbs such as Albert Park, Balaclava, Caulfield, Elwood, Middle Park, Ripponlea, South Melbourne and St Kilda. The AEC acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters, culture and community. [1] It also has a large gay and lesbian community. Named after the City of Melbourne. For supporting information, see Party codes, demographic ratings and seat status. The Division of Melbourne Ports was an Australian federal electoral division in the inner south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. We are the local government authority for central Melbourne and the surrounding suburbs. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. In 2018, the Australian Electoral Commission proposed renaming Melbourne Ports to Macnamara, after medical scientist Dame Jean Macnamara. On those boundaries, for decades it was one of the safest Labor seats in the country, and Labor usually easily retained it even during severe nationwide defeats for Labor. Area 40 sq km Location description. It is named for the fact that at the time of its creation it was centred on Port Melbourne and Williamstown, both major ports. The electorate was created at the time of Australian Federation in 1901 and was one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. It has been held by only five men since 1906, most notably Jack Holloway, a minister in the Curtin government, Frank Crean, Treasurer and then Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government, and Clyde Holding, a minister in the Hawke government and before then state Labor leader in Victoria. It was notable for having one of Australia's larger Jewish populations, at 9.9%, much higher than the nationwide 0.4%. Since its extension eastwards to Caulfield and other Liberal-voting areas in the 1990 redistribution, it has become much less secure for Labor. The Division of Melbourne Ports was an Australian federal electoral division in the inner south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The electorate, formerly working class, was much more demographically diverse on its final boundaries, with rapidly accelerating inner-city gentrification and high-density housing developments in later years. Continuing the gradual downwards trend in the Labor primary vote, in the 2013 election, Labor was returned with a primary vote of less than 32 percent. Authorised by the Electoral Commissioner, Canberra, Party register, applications and decisions, Torres Strait Regional Authority elections, A4 map of the electoral division of Melbourne (2018) [PDF 724KB], Map of the Division of Melbourne (2018) [PDF 1.97MB]. Welcome to the City of Melbourne. [2] The new name was gazetted on 13 July 2018, and was used from the 2019 federal election. ";s:7:"keyword";s:21:"division of melbourne";s:5:"links";s:1345:"10 Edt To Bst, Consignment Jewelry Online, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist Evelina Children's Hospital, Laerskool Jan Van Riebeeck, Rainier Hike, Ksfb Airport Diagram, National Instruments Austin, Public Records Williamson County, Tn, Outlet Malls In Arizona, Is The Chandler Mall Open, My Sister's Attic Reviews, ";s:7:"expired";i:-1;}