Victorian redistribution

2. Suggestions Closed

Closed on Fri 24 Nov 2023

Members of the public were invited to submit written suggestions relating to the redistribution between Wednesday 25 October and 6pm AEDT Friday 24 November 2023.

Suggestions may concern one or more federal electoral divisions and may be about:

  • which electoral division to abolish,
  • names of federal electoral divisions,
  • boundaries of federal electoral divisions, or
  • the names and boundaries of federal electoral divisions.

The 63 suggestions received by the Victorian Redistribution Committee are provided below.

No

Submitted by

Topics referred to

Divisions referred to

S1

Mark Burstall

Division names

 

S2

Matthew Kirwan

Division boundaries

Bruce and Isaacs

S3

Fabio Scalia

Division boundaries

Cooper, Macnamara and Wills

S4

Jan Hasnie

Division names

Menzies

S5

Roger Nye

Division boundaries

Fraser, Gellibrand and Lalor

S6

Martin Gordon

Division names and division boundaries

Aston, Ballarat, Bruce, Calwell, Casey, Chisholm, Cooper, Deakin, Dunkley, Flinders, Fraser, Gellibrand, Gippsland, Goldstein, Gorton, Hawke, Higgins, Holt, Hotham, Indi, Isaacs, Jagajaga, Kooyong, Lalor, La Trobe, Macnamara, Mallee, Maribyrnong, McEwen, Melbourne, Menzies, Monash, Scullin, Wannon and Wills

S7

Michael Hedger

Division boundaries

Maribyrnong

S8

Benjamin Close

Division names and division boundaries

Aston, Ballarat, Bendigo, Bruce, Calwell, Casey, Chisholm, Cooper, Corangamite, Corio, Deakin, Dunkley, Fraser, Gellibrand, Gippsland, Goldstein, Gorton, Hawke, Higgins, Holt, Hotham, Indi, Isaacs, Jagajaga, Kooyong, Lalor, La Trobe, Macnamara, Mallee, Maribyrnong, McEwen, Melbourne, Menzies, Monash, Nicholls, Scullin, Wannon and Wills

S9

PJ

Division names and division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S10

Nimalan Sivakumar

Division names and division boundaries

Goldstein, Hotham, Isaacs and Macnamara

S11

Declan Coleman

Division names

La Trobe

S12

Adam Hains

Division names

Casey

S13

Graeme Wheeler

Division names

Casey

S14

Rhonda Garad

Division boundaries

Bruce, Chisholm and La Trobe

S15

Isabelle Thanh Tam Do

Division boundaries

Bruce, Chisholm and La Trobe

S16

Ben

Division names and division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S17

Frederik Wubbeling

Division names

Casey

S18

Pam Naylor

Division boundaries

Bruce, Chisholm and La Trobe

S19

Ishaq Hazara

Division boundaries

Bruce, Chisholm and La Trobe

S20

Cheston Mak

Division names and division boundaries

Aston, Ballarat, Bendigo, Calwell, Corangamite, Hawke, Kooyong, Mallee, Maribyrnong, McEwen, Monash, Scullin and Wills

S21

Heather Louis

Division boundaries

Bruce, Casey, Chisholm, Goldstein, Higgins, Hotham and La Trobe

S22

Geoff Arnott

Division boundaries

Deakin and Menzies

S23

Louisa Willoughby

Division boundaries

Bruce, Chisholm, Hotham and Isaacs

S24

Maroondah Business Group

Division boundaries

Deakin and Menzies

S25

Darren McSweeney

Division names and division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S26

Maroondah City Council

Division boundaries

Deakin

S27

Anonymous 1

  • Attachment to suggestion

Division names and division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S28

Neil Pharaoh

Division boundaries

Ballarat, Bendigo, Calwell, Cooper, Goldstein, Hawke, Higgins, Hotham, Macnamara, McEwen, Scullin and Wills

S29

Deborah Worsley-Pine

Division names

Casey

S30

Paul Niven

Other

S31

Tanja Kovac

Division names

Casey

S32

Dr Mark Mulcair

Division names and division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S33

Anonymous 2

Division boundaries

Bruce, Chisholm and La Trobe

S34

Zoe Daniel MP

Division boundaries

Goldstein, Isaacs and Macnamara

S35

Jeff Waddell

Division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S36

D. G. Clarke

Division boundaries

Casey, Hawke, Jagajaga, McEwen and Scullin

S37

Punjabi Club Victoria

Division boundaries

Aston, Casey, Chisholm, Cooper, Deakin, Jagajaga, Kooyong and Menzies

S38

Warren Grzic

Division names and division boundaries

Calwell, Gellibrand, Hotham, La Trobe and Wills

S39

Dr Paul Rival

Division boundaries

Aston, Casey, Chisholm, Cooper, Deakin, Jagajaga, Menzies and Scullin

S40

David Cadby

Division names

Corangamite and Wannon

S41

Phillip Drake

Division names and division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S42

David Lumsden

Division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S43

Louis Desribes

Division boundaries

Bruce, Chisholm and La Trobe

S44

Jarrod Lappin

Division boundaries

Calwell, McEwen and Scullin

S45

Zoe Cook

Division boundaries

Ballarat, Bendigo, Calwell, Casey, Hawke, Indi, Jagajaga, McEwen, Menzies, Nicholls and Scullin

S46

Dr Monique Ryan MP

Division names and division boundaries

Chisholm, Cooper, Higgins, Jagajaga, Kooyong, Melbourne and Menzies

S47

Dr Helen Haines MP

Division boundaries

Indi

S48

Mr William Ma

Division boundaries

Chisholm, Deakin, Hawke, Kooyong and Menzies

S49

Colin McLaren

Division names and division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S50

Henry Rees

Division names and division boundaries

Calwell, Casey, Chisholm, Cooper, Deakin, Dunkley, Goldstein, Hawke, Higgins, Hotham, Isaacs, Jagajaga, Kooyong, Macnamara, Maribyrnong, McEwen, Melbourne, Menzies, Monash, Scullin and Wills

S51

Alan Thomas

Division names

Ballarat, Casey, Corangamite, Fraser, La Trobe, Maribyrnong, Melbourne and Monash

S52

Andrew Boatman

Division boundaries

Ballarat

S53

Trent Wilson

Division names and division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S54

Rudolf Blums

Division names

Casey

S55

Craig Fletcher

Division boundaries

Ballarat

S56

The Nationals - Victoria

Division boundaries

Ballarat, Bendigo, Gippsland, Hawke, Indi, Mallee, McEwen, Monash, Nicholls and Wannon

S57

Australian Labor Party – Victorian Branch

Division names and division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S58

Peter Mitchell

Division boundaries

Ballarat, Bendigo, Corangamite, Corio, Indi, Mallee, Melbourne, McEwen, Nicholls and Wannon

S59

Manningham City Council

Division boundaries

Menzies

S60

Dr Charles Richardson

Division names and division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S61

Australian Greens Victoria

Division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S62

Luke Dixon

Division names and division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

S63

Anonymous 3

Division boundaries

All Victorian electoral divisions

The views expressed in the material reproduced above are those of the individuals or organisations who lodged the comment on suggestions, not the Victorian Redistribution Committee or the AEC.

Updated: 11 December 2023

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