Step 3. Invitation for comments on suggestions – Victorian federal redistribution

Members of the public were invited to submit written comments on the suggestions relating to the redistribution between 20 November and 1 December 2017

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

• Essential information about the Victorian federal 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,
• where the new electoral division should be located,
• 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 were advised it may be 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 58 comments on suggestions received by the Redistribution Committee for Victoria are provided in the table below.

No	Submitted by	Topics referred to	Divisions referred to	Suggestions referred to in comment
CS1	Sieta Beckwith	Division names	Batman
CS2	Fitzroy Legal Service Inc.	Division names	Batman	S8
CS3	David Hollis	Division names	McMillan
CS4	Frank and Mary Schooneveldt	Division names	McMillan	S5, S64
CS5	Lorris Jones	Division names	McMillan
CS6	Cr Geoff Ellis	Division names and division boundaries	Flinders, McMillan and Wannon	S1, S5, S11, S12, S13, S15, S16, S18, S21, S22, S24, S30, S32, S33, S34, S40, S42, S44, S48, S51, S54, S55, S56, S57, S59, S60, S61, S64
CS7	Colin McLaren	Division names and division boundaries	Corangamite, Gorton, Lalor and Wannon
CS8	Cr Chris Potter	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon	S39, S61, S65
CS9	James Duncan	Division names and division boundaries	All Victorian electoral divisions	S62
CS10	Andrew Gunter	Division boundaries	Calwell, Maribyrnong, Wills and the new division	S23, S25 S50 S61, S63, S65, S66
CS11	The Australian Workers Union	Division names	Gellibrand
CS12	Brenda Carew	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon
CS13	Cape Otway Lightstation	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon	S61
CS14	Cr Stephen Hart	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon	S39, S61, S65
CS15	Apollo Bay Chamber of Commerce Inc.	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon
CS16	John Riches	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon	S39, S61, S65
CS17	Colac & District Chamber of Commerce & Industry	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon	S39, S61, S63, S65
CS18	Mark Mulcair	Division names and division boundaries	All Victorian electoral divisions with the exception of Bruce, Corio, Gippsland, Goldstein and Holt	S7, S25, S39, S61, S63, S65
CS19	Fez Riches	Division boundaries	McEwen	S7, S23, S39, S45, S50, S52, S65, S66
CS20	Kevin Cooper	Division boundaries	McEwen	S7, S23, S39, S45, S50, S52, S63, S65, S66
CS21	Spiro Pastras	Division boundaries	McEwen	S7, S25, S46, S61, S62, S65, S66, S67
CS22	Martin Gordon	Division names and division boundaries	All Victorian electoral divisions with the exception of Ballarat, Deakin, Gippsland, Gorton, Higgins, Indi, Jagajaga, Kooyong, Maribyrnong, Melbourne and Murray	S7, S17, S19, S23, S25, S26, S35, S36, S39, S45, S46, S47, S50, S52, S61, S62, S63, S65, S66, S67
CS23	Jason Schram	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon	S65
CS24	Dolores Murrell	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon
CS25	Sharyn Hughes	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon
CS26	Skenes Creek Advancement Association Inc.	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon	S65, S39
CS27	Reconciliation Victoria	Division names	McMillan	S64
CS28	Jeff Waddell	Division names and division boundaries	All Victorian electoral divisions with the exception of Goldstein, Gorton and Kooyong	S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11, S12, S13, S14, S15, S16, S17, S18, S19, S20, S21, S22, S23, S24, S25, S26, S27, S28, S29, S30, S31, S32, S33, S34, S35, S36, S37, S38, S39, S40, S41, S42, S43, S44, S45, S46, S47, S48, S49, S50, S51, S52
CS29	Barb O'Dowd	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon
CS30	Athole Stewart Wedgwood	Division boundaries	Corangamite, Flinders and Holt
CS31	David Robinson	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon
CS32	Warrnambool ALP Branch	Division names	Wannon	S25, S65
CS33	Daniel Berk	Division boundaries	Bruce, Chisholm, Higgins and Kooyong
CS34	Bass Coast South Gippsland Reconciliation Group	Division names	McMillan	S64
CS35	Damien Wise	Division boundaries	Kooyong, Higgins, Hotham, Melbourne and Melbourne Ports	S61
CS36	Croydon Chamber of Commerce	Division boundaries	Deakin
CS37	Knox City Council	Division boundaries	Aston and La Trobe
CS38	Ringwood Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc.	Division boundaries	Deakin	S61, S65
CS39	Ben Ellwood	Division names	All Victorian electoral divisions and the new division	S7, S8, S9, S19, S17,S23, S25, S26, S29, S36, S45, S47, S49, S50, S52, S64, S65, S66, S67
CS40	Darren McSweeney	Division names and division boundaries	Ballarat, Batman, Bendigo, Casey, Corangamite, Corio, Dunkley, Finders, Goldstein, Higgins, Hotham, Indi, Isaacs, McMillan, Mallee, Melbourne Ports, Murray and Wannon	S46, S64
CS41	Thomas Hammond	Division boundaries	Indi, Mallee, McEwen and Murray	S39, S63, S65
CS42	Yarra Ranges Council	Division boundaries	Casey and La Trobe	S25, S45, S46, S61, S62, S65
CS43	Australian Greens Victoria	Division names and division boundaries	Batman, Bruce, Calwell, Dunkley, Flinders, Gellibrand, Indi, Jagajaga, La Trobe, McMillan, Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Melbourne Ports, Murray, Wannon, Wills and the new electoral division	S61, S63, S65
CS44	Dean Ashley	Other		S67
CS45	Colac Otway Shire	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon
CS46	Bass Coast Shire Council	Division names	McMillan
CS47	The Luke Ryan Family Trust	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon
CS48	Uncle Boydie	Division names	Gellibrand
CS49	Yarra Valley Business	Division names and division boundaries	Casey	S19
CS50	Michele Taylor	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon
CS51	Phil Burgoine	Division names	Gellibrand	S65
CS52	Maroondah City Council	Division boundaries	Casey and Deakin	S37, S65, S66, S67
CS53	Susan D Walsh	Division boundaries	Corangamite and Wannon
CS54	Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch)	Division names and division boundaries	All Victorian electoral divisions with the exception of Corangamite, Deakin and Gippsland	S19, S25, S28, S35, S39 S63, S61, S64, S65
CS55	Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division)	Division names and division boundaries	Aston, Calwell, Casey, Corangamite, Deakin, Dunkley, Flinders, Gippsland, Higgins, Holt, Jagajaga, La Trobe, McEwen, McMillan, Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Melbourne Ports, Menzies, Murray, Scullin, Wannon and the new division	S7, S19, S23, S25, S37, S39, S45, S46, S50, S61, S62, S63, S65, S66,
CS56	Adam Bandt MP	Division boundaries	Batman, Melbourne, Wills and the new division	S63, S65
CS57	Abe Schwartz	Division names	Gellibrand
CS58	The Nationals - Victoria	Division names and division boundaries	McEwen, Murray and the new division	S39, S63

The following comments on suggestions were identified as submitted by individuals who were not residents of Victoria at the time of lodgement

• CS22 – Martin Gordon