Electoral boundaries submission

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Submission name: Born and bred Submitted by: Michele Richards

Submission description

I have read all the submissions and suggestions and offer the following comments having experienced evolve over more than 50 years (I was born on 13 July at the original Canberra Hospital (before the lake)) and witnessed the tragedy of the 13 July hospital demise.

1. Minimise relocation of suburbs from their existing town centre/districts as much as possible. There does not seem to be any value in completely realigning areas and no evidence provided with submissions that suggest any benefit from vastly different electorate configurations to town centr e/district regions.

2. Where suburbs need to be moved from their current electorate into a new one to meet current legislative requirements, consideration and priorit y should be given to the ease of returning them to the original location beyond 2016.

For example, Kambah will always be considered a suburb (regardless of electorate), and as Molonglo East becomes more populat ed, and Molonglo Central and Molonglo West become developed, Kambah will likely need to be relocated back to the Tuggeranong electorate. T he same applies to the current suburbs of Fraser, Spence, Evatt, McKellar, and Giralang - they will always belong to . Dunlop and Lawson while much newer than the others still sit in the Belconnen region. To minimise the impact of moving suburbs from Belconnen to Gun gahlin, I suggest only Dunlop, Fraser, Kaleen and Giralang (or Spence, Fraser, Kaleen and Giralang) be relocated to a electorate with Dunlop and Fraser being the first priority to move back to Belconnen once other Gungahlin suburbs of Throsby, Taylor and Kenny are developed and Moncrieff and Jacka become more populated.

3. Hume is mostly associated with Tuggeranong and while there is scope for this area along with Symonston, Jerrabomberra, Beard and Oaks Est ate to sit in three potential electorates, they don't make a huge impact on numbers so defer to the community council positions to decide these. Th at way there will be genuine inclusion of community views that can be demonstrated to constituents.

4. Lyneham, Watson and Downer should remain with what is now considered inner north. Examination of the submissions that suggest including t hese with a Gungahlin electorate demonstrate no advantage to doing so - just seems to be change for change sake. Some of the northern suburb s of Belconnen align more strongly (but temporarily) with Gungahlin.

5. In summary, up to and including the 2016 election, Electorate 1 (Gungahlin) as defined by existing suburbs and including Dunlop or Spence, Fr aser, Giralang, Kaleen, Belconnen District 2 and ; Electorate 2 (Belconnen) as defined by existing suburbs except for Dunlop or Spence, Fras er, Giralang, Kaleen and Belconnen District 2; Electorate 3 (inner north and inner south) as defined by existing suburbs including District, Canberra Airport, Fyshwick and Pialligo; Electorate 4 as defined by existing Woden//Molonglo suburbs and including Distri ct, Kambah, Symonston, Jerrabomberra District, Beard and Oaks Estate; Electorate 5 (Tuggeranong) as defined by existing suburbs excluding Ka mbah and including Hume.

Electorates

Electorate 1 Electorate 2 Electorate 3 Current: 96.97% Projected: 99.51% Current: 99.16% Projected: 100.46% Current: 103.34% Projected: 102.54%

Electorate 4 Electorate 5 Current: 101.79% Projected: 99.94% Current: 98.69% Projected: 97.50% Electorate boundary map

Gungahlin District 1 Jacka Bonner Moncrieff

Hall Casey Amaroo Forde Ngunnawal

Belconnen District 2

Nicholls Gungahlin Fraser Palmerston Gungahlin District 2 Dunlop Harrison Spence Charnwood Franklin Crace Flynn Macgregor Melba Evatt Giralang Gungahlin District 3 Latham McKellar Mitchell Holt Florey Lawson Kaleen

Higgins Scullin Belconnen Watson Page Lyneham Downer Bruce District 2 Belconnen District 1 Hawker WeetangerMaacquarie Hackett Dickson O'Connor Aranda Cook Ainslie Turner Braddon Majura District Canberra Central District 1 Acton Canberra City District Reid Campbell

Denman Prospect Uriarra Parkes Molonglo Russell Yarralumla Canberra Airport Capital Hill Barton Stromlo District Weston Creek District Kingston Forrest Coombs Deakin Wright Fyshwick Curtin Griffith Pialligo Red Hill Hughes Duffy Holder Weston Narrabundah Oaks Estate Lyons Garran Beard

Rivett Phillip Symonston Stirling Waramanga Chapman Chifley O'Malley Fisher Pearce Jerrabomberra District District Mawson Isaacs Torrens Farrer

Kambah Hume

Wanniassa Tuggeranong District 1 Fadden Macarthur Oxley Gowrie Greenway Monash Gilmore

Chisholm

Paddy's River District Isabella Plains Richardson Bonython

Calwell

Theodore

Gordon Conder

Banks

Tharwa Tuggeranong District 2 Electorate summary

Electorate 1

Amaroo Enrolled: 3665, Projected: 3883 Belconnen District 2 Enrolled: 14, Projected: 45 Bonner Enrolled: 2735, Projected: 3003 Casey Enrolled: 2031, Projected: 2379 Crace Enrolled: 1575, Projected: 1975 Dunlop Enrolled: 4840, Projected: 5176 Forde Enrolled: 2321, Projected: 2587 Franklin Enrolled: 2870, Projected: 3250 Fraser Enrolled: 1595, Projected: 1625 Giralang Enrolled: 2535, Projected: 2544 Gungahlin Enrolled: 3422, Projected: 3512 Gungahlin District 1 Enrolled: 3, Projected: 3 Gungahlin District 2 Enrolled: 3, Projected: 35 Gungahlin District 3 Enrolled: 3, Projected: 3 Hall Enrolled: 244, Projected: 244 Harrison Enrolled: 3484, Projected: 3934 Jacka Enrolled: 76, Projected: 166 Kaleen Enrolled: 5566, Projected: 5617 Mitchell Enrolled: 3, Projected: 3 Moncrieff Enrolled: 0, Projected: 109 Ngunnawal Enrolled: 6165, Projected: 6600 Nicholls Enrolled: 5105, Projected: 5051 Palmerston Enrolled: 3894, Projected: 3953

Electorate 2

Aranda Enrolled: 1839, Projected: 1851 Belconnen Enrolled: 3325, Projected: 4098 Belconnen District 1 Enrolled: 15, Projected: 46 Bruce Enrolled: 3982, Projected: 4592 Charnwood Enrolled: 2130, Projected: 2198 Cook Enrolled: 2197, Projected: 2236 District Enrolled: 177, Projected: 177 Evatt Enrolled: 3889, Projected: 3938 Florey Enrolled: 3610, Projected: 3697 Flynn Enrolled: 2613, Projected: 2716 Hawker Enrolled: 2241, Projected: 2295 Higgins Enrolled: 2249, Projected: 2318 Holt Enrolled: 3431, Projected: 3870 Latham Enrolled: 2745, Projected: 2810 Lawson Enrolled: 0, Projected: 213 Macgregor Enrolled: 4533, Projected: 4603 Macquarie Enrolled: 1876, Projected: 1964 McKellar Enrolled: 2134, Projected: 2100 Melba Enrolled: 2414, Projected: 2418 Page Enrolled: 1955, Projected: 2060 Scullin Enrolled: 2034, Projected: 2054 Spence Enrolled: 1951, Projected: 2035 Weetangera Enrolled: 1986, Projected: 1936

Electorate 3

Acton Enrolled: 606, Projected: 590 Ainslie Enrolled: 4022, Projected: 4187 Barton Enrolled: 1027, Projected: 1086 Braddon Enrolled: 3291, Projected: 3850 Campbell Enrolled: 3659, Projected: 3692 Canberra Airport Enrolled: 1, Projected: 1 Canberra Central District 1 Enrolled: 0, Projected: 0 Canberra Central District 2 Enrolled: 0, Projected: 0 Canberra City Enrolled: 1645, Projected: 2092 Capital Hill Enrolled: 0, Projected: 0 Deakin Enrolled: 2301, Projected: 2309 Dickson Enrolled: 1530, Projected: 1475 Downer Enrolled: 2576, Projected: 2654 Forrest Enrolled: 1320, Projected: 1284 Fyshwick Enrolled: 29, Projected: 29 Griffith Enrolled: 3291, Projected: 3296 Hackett Enrolled: 2244, Projected: 2273 Kingston Enrolled: 2989, Projected: 3160 Lyneham Enrolled: 3817, Projected: 3989 Majura District Enrolled: 87, Projected: 87 Narrabundah Enrolled: 4314, Projected: 4281 O'Connor Enrolled: 4011, Projected: 4125 Parkes Enrolled: 1, Projected: 1 Pialligo Enrolled: 92, Projected: 92 Red Hill Enrolled: 2336, Projected: 2251 Reid Enrolled: 1156, Projected: 1166 Russell Enrolled: 0, Projected: 0 Turner Enrolled: 2722, Projected: 2789 Watson Enrolled: 4071, Projected: 4347 Yarralumla Enrolled: 2435, Projected: 2286

Electorate 4

Beard Enrolled: 0, Projected: 0 Chapman Enrolled: 2227, Projected: 2293 Chifley Enrolled: 1792, Projected: 1740 Coombs Enrolled: 0, Projected: 268 Curtin Enrolled: 3959, Projected: 4011 Denman Prospect Enrolled: 0, Projected: 54 Duffy Enrolled: 2378, Projected: 2422 Farrer Enrolled: 2585, Projected: 2573 Fisher Enrolled: 2263, Projected: 2297 Garran Enrolled: 2316, Projected: 2278 Holder Enrolled: 2071, Projected: 2120 Hughes Enrolled: 2180, Projected: 2129 Isaacs Enrolled: 1918, Projected: 1861 Jerrabomberra District Enrolled: 16, Projected: 16 Kambah Enrolled: 11684, Projected: 11903 Lyons Enrolled: 2019, Projected: 2168 Mawson Enrolled: 2210, Projected: 2168 Molonglo Enrolled: 0, Projected: 0 Molonglo Valley District Enrolled: 2, Projected: 2 O'Malley Enrolled: 719, Projected: 719 Oaks Estate Enrolled: 206, Projected: 206 Pearce Enrolled: 1957, Projected: 1943 Phillip Enrolled: 1481, Projected: 1458 Rivett Enrolled: 2362, Projected: 2420 Stirling Enrolled: 1467, Projected: 1468 Stromlo District Enrolled: 34, Projected: 34 Symonston Enrolled: 307, Projected: 307 Torrens Enrolled: 1702, Projected: 1721 Waramanga Enrolled: 1981, Projected: 1988 Weston Enrolled: 2571, Projected: 2811 Weston Creek District Enrolled: 4, Projected: 4 Woden Valley District Enrolled: 0, Projected: 0 Wright Enrolled: 327, Projected: 551

Electorate 5

Banks Enrolled: 3549, Projected: 3659 Bonython Enrolled: 2848, Projected: 2859 Calwell Enrolled: 4291, Projected: 4432 Chisholm Enrolled: 3859, Projected: 3979 Conder Enrolled: 3675, Projected: 3779 Fadden Enrolled: 2452, Projected: 2507 Gilmore Enrolled: 2040, Projected: 2036 Gordon Enrolled: 5680, Projected: 5924 Gowrie Enrolled: 2400, Projected: 2454 Greenway Enrolled: 1246, Projected: 1344 Hume Enrolled: 16, Projected: 16 Isabella Plains Enrolled: 3061, Projected: 3315 Macarthur Enrolled: 1189, Projected: 1212 Monash Enrolled: 4342, Projected: 4394 Oxley Enrolled: 1322, Projected: 1364 Paddy's River District Enrolled: 82, Projected: 82 Richardson Enrolled: 2246, Projected: 2219 Tharwa Enrolled: 67, Projected: 67 Theodore Enrolled: 2770, Projected: 2881 Tuggeranong District 1 Enrolled: 14, Projected: 14 Tuggeranong District 2 Enrolled: 15, Projected: 15 Wanniassa Enrolled: 5907, Projected: 6019