Step 3. Comments on suggestions – WA federal redistribution

Members of the public were invited to submit written comments on the suggestions relating to the redistribution.

Guidelines were available to help those making comments who were recommended to look at:

• Essential information about the WA redistribution
• Who makes the proposed redistribution and what factors do they consider?

Comments on suggestions may concern one or more electoral divisions and may be about:

• one or more suggestions,
• which electoral division to abolish,
• names of electoral divisions,
• boundaries of electoral divisions, or
• the names and boundaries of electoral divisions.

In developing comments on suggestions about the names of a federal electoral division, members of the public were advised it may be helpful to consider:

• Guidelines for naming divisions,
• Information about the names of existing federal electoral divisions, and
• origins of the names for electoral divisions which are no longer in use.

In developing a comment on suggestions about the boundaries of a federal electoral division, members of the public were advised it may be helpful to consider:

• Current enrolment quota
• Profiles of current electoral divisions
• Maps and spatial data of current federal electoral divisions
• Enrolment projections and enrolment data

Comments on suggestions

The 17 comments on suggestions received by the WA Redistribution Committee are provided below.

No	Submitted by	Topics referred to	Divisions referred to	Suggestions referred to
CS1	Derek Rea	Division boundaries	Cowan and Pearce
CS2	Kirstie Ferguson	Division boundaries	Cowan, Hasluck and Pearce
CS3	Shane Gourlay	Division boundaries	Cowan
CS4	Kathy Collis	Division boundaries	Cowan and Pearce
CS5	Shire of Murray	Division boundaries	Brand, Burt, Canning, Forrest and Fremantle	S19 and S23
CS6	Martin Gordon *Attachment to suggestion XLSX [24KB]	Division names and division boundaries	All Western Australian electoral divisions	S10, S15, S17, S18, S20, S24 and S26
CS7	Dennis Ryle	Division boundaries	Cowan	S23
CS8	Westnam Soccer Club	Division boundaries	Cowan and Stirling
CS9	12 Buckets	Division boundaries	Cowan and Stirling
CS10	Olympic Kingsway Sports Club	Division boundaries	Cowan and Stirling
CS11	Darren McSweeney	Division names and division boundaries	Burt, Canning, Cowan, Curtin, Durack, Fremantle, Forrest, Hasluck, Moore, O'Connor, Pearce, Perth, Stirling, Swan and Tangney	S1, S8, S7, S9, S10, S11, S12, S15, S16, S17, S18, S20, S21, S23, S24, S26 and S27
CS12	Faz Pollard	Division boundaries
CS13	Gordon Evans	Division boundaries	Cowan
CS14	Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australia Division)	Division names and division boundaries	Brand, Burt, Canning, Cowan, Curtin, Durack, Forrest, Fremantle, Hasluck, O'Connor, Pearce, Perth, Stirling, Swan and Tangney	S1, S2, S7, S8, S10, S15, S17, S18, S19, S20, S21, S23, S24, S25, S26 and S27
CS15	WA Labor	Division names and division boundaries	All Western Australian electoral divisions	S10, S15, S17, S20, S22, S23, S24, S25, S26 and S27
CS16	City of Wanneroo	Division boundaries	Cowan, Moore and Pearce
CS17	The Nationals WA	Division boundaries	Canning, Durack, Forrest, Hasluck, O'Connor and Pearce	S10, S15, S17, S20, S23, S24, S26 and S27