Step 3. Comments on suggestions – South Australian federal redistribution

Members of the public were invited to submit written comments on the suggestions relating to the redistribution between 4 and 15 December 2017.

Guidelines were available to help with your submission. Those making comments on suggestions were recommended to look at:

• Essential information about the South Australian 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,
• 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 comments on suggestions about the boundaries of a federal electoral division, members of the public may find it helpful to consider:

• Current enrolment quota
• Maps of current federal electoral division boundaries, which are available in each electoral division's profile
• Enrolment projections

The 32 comments on suggestions received by the Redistribution Committee for South Australia are provided in the table below.

No	Submitted by	Topics referred to	Divisions referred to	Suggestions referred to in comment
CS1	Patrick Pollard	Other	Barker
CS2	Martin Gordon	Division names and division boundaries	All South Australian electoral divisions	S127, S128, S180, S186, S198, S201, S204, S206, S207, S208, S209, S210, S211
CS3	Nick Champion MP	Division boundaries	Makin and Wakefield	S198
CS4	Rebekha Sharkie MP	Division names and division boundaries	Adelaide, Barker and Mayo	S207, S208, S211
CS5	Darrell Wise	Division boundaries	Boothby and Kingston
CS6	Irma Denk	Division boundaries	Boothby
CS7	Annette and John Burkett	Division boundaries	Boothby and Kingston
CS8	Josephine Percat	Division boundaries	Boothby
CS9	Dean Matthias	Division boundaries	Boothby and Mayo
CS10	Darren McSweeney	Division names and division boundaries	All South Australian electoral divisions	All suggestions
CS11	Chris Ware	Division boundaries	Boothby
CS12	C H and D R Adderley	Division boundaries	Boothby and Kingston
CS13	John Speziale	Division boundaries	Boothby and Kingston
CS14	Chris and Bruce Keller	Division boundaries	Boothby and Kingston
CS15	Fran Southern	Division boundaries	Boothby and Kingston
CS16	Geoff Neumann	Division boundaries	Boothby and Kingston
CS17	Joe Meuris OAM	Division boundaries	Boothby and Kingston
CS18	Angela Davison	Division boundaries	Adelaide, Barker, Boothby, Grey, Hindmarsh, Kingston and Wakefield
CS19	Fran Southern	Division boundaries	Adelaide, Barker, Boothby, Grey, Hindmarsh, Kingston and Wakefield
CS20	Vivienne Nielssen and Tony Roark	Division boundaries	Boothby, Kingston and Mayo
CS21	Melanie Jackson	Division boundaries	Boothby
CS22	Tracy Ready	Division boundaries	Adelaide, Barker, Boothby, Grey, Hindmarsh, Kingston, Mayo and Wakefield
CS23	Mel Ready	Division boundaries	Adelaide, Barker, Boothby, Grey, Hindmarsh, Kingston, Mayo and Wakefield
CS24	Peter Graham-Sutton	Division boundaries	Boothby
CS25	Bob Foley	Division boundaries	Boothby
CS26	Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch)	Division names and division boundaries	All South Australian electoral divisions	S208, S211
CS27	Australian Democrats (SA Division) Inc.	Division names and division boundaries	Adelaide, Barker, Boothby, Grey, Hindmarsh, Makin, Mayo, Port Adelaide, Sturt and Wakefield	S1, S127, S128, S186, S198, S201, S204, S206, S208, S209, S211
CS28	Helen Ronson	Division boundaries	Adelaide, Barker, Boothby, Grey, Hindmarsh, Kingston, Mayo and Wakefield	S208, S211
CS29	George and Patricia Oram	Division boundaries	Boothby and Kingston
CS30	Michael Burke	Division names and division boundaries	Adelaide, Boothby, Grey, Hindmarsh, Kingston, Makin, Port Adelaide, Sturt and Wakefield	S1, S127, S128, S180, S182, S186, S201, S204, S206, S208, S210, S211
CS31	Aileen Murray	Division names and division boundaries	Adelaide, Barker, Boothby, Grey, Hindmarsh, Kingston, Mayo and Wakefield
CS32	Steve Murray	Division boundaries	All South Australian electoral divisions

The following comments on suggestions were identified as submitted by individuals who were not residents of South Australia at the time of lodgment:

• CS2 - Martin Gordon
• CS10 - Darren McSweeney