Step 3. Comments on suggestions – Victorian 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 Victorian 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 comment on suggestions about the boundaries of a federal electoral division or where the new electoral division should be located, 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 48 comments on suggestions received by the Victorian Redistribution Committee are provided below.

No	Submitted by	Topics referred to	Divisions referred to	Suggestions referred to
CS1	Maroondah City Council	Division boundaries	Deakin and Menzies	S13, S24, S28, S31, S34, S43, S70, S85, S90, S97, S99, S100 and S101
CS2	Community Planning and Development Program, La Trobe University	Division names	New division	S41
CS3	Dr Deborah Towns OAM	Division names	New division
CS4	Caitlin No	Division names	All Victorian electoral divisions and the new division	Many suggestions
CS5	Linda Bennett	Division names		S74, S92 and S96
CS6	Anonymous 1	Division names	Gellibrand
CS7	Greg Parry	Division names	Gellibrand
CS8	Ringwood RSL	Division boundaries	Deakin	S13, S24, S31, S34, S43, S70, S85, S90, S97, S99, S100 and S101
CS9	Jonathan Page	Division names	New division
CS10	Timothy Weber	Division names	Gellibrand and new division
CS11	Susan Davies	Division names	New division
CS12	Shauna Picard	Division names	New division
CS13	Don Limn	Division names
CS14	Margaret Byrne	Division names	New division	S14
CS15	Glenn Barrett	Division names	New division
CS16	Marg Jungwirth	Division names	New division
CS17	Kenneth Young	Division names	New division
CS18	Martin Gordon	Division names and division boundaries	All Victorian electoral divisions and the new division	S4, S13, S34, S36, S44, S51, S58, S85, S87, S89, S90, S96, S97, S99, S100 and S102
CS19	Alan James BA (Hons), Dip Ed, B Ed (Hons)	Division names	New division	S58
CS20	Juliette Mendelovits	Division names	New division
CS21	Bruce Mildenhall	Division names	Gellibrand
CS22	Ellen White	Division boundaries	Mallee
CS23	Dr Helen Haines MP	Division boundaries	Indi
CS24	Diane Roddy	Division names	New division
CS25	Glenys Rose	Division names	New division
CS26	Maroondah Business Group	Division boundaries	Deakin	S13, S24, S31, S34, S43, S70, S85, S90, S97, S99, S100 and S101
CS27	Michael Tandora	Division boundaries	McEwen, Scullin and the new division	S90 and S100
CS28	Norwood Sporting Club	Division boundaries	Deakin	S13, S24, S28, S31, S34, S43, S70, S85, S90, S97, S99, S100 and S101
CS29	Asian Business Association of Whitehorse	Division boundaries	Chisholm and Menzies	S13, S24, S28, S31, S34, S43, S70, S85, S90, S97, S99, S100 and S101
CS30	Rowan Berry	Division names	New division
CS31	Darren McSweeney	Division names and division boundaries	All Victorian electoral divisions and the new division	S2, S4, S9, S11, S12, S13, S14, S15, S16, S18, S20, S21, S22, S23, S24, S25, S27, S28, S30, S31, S32, S33, S34, S35, S36, S37, S38, S39, S40, S41, S42, S43, S44, S45, S46, S47, S48, S49, S50, S51, S52, S53, S54, S55, S56, S57, S58, S59, S60, S61, S62, S63, S64, S65, S66, S67, S70, S71, S72, S73, S74, S75, S76, S77, S78, S79, S80, S81, S82, S83, S85, S86, S88, S89, S90, S91, S92, S93, S94, S95, S96, S97, S99, S100 and S101
CS32	Alan Strangwick	Division boundaries	McEwen	S13, S24, S31, S34, S43, S70, S85, S87, S89, S90, S93, S97, S99, S100 and S101
CS33	Australian Greens Victoria	Division boundaries	Cooper, Higgins, Macnamara, Maribyrnong, Melbourne and Wills	S13, S24, S31, S34, S70, S90, S97, S99 and S101
CS34	Sophie Stuart	Division boundaries	Dunkley, Flinders and Isaacs	S13, S34 and S101
CS35	History Council of Victoria Inc	Division names	All Victorian electoral divisions and the new division
CS36	Glenys Sharma	Division names	New division
CS37	Dr Mark Mulcair	Division names and division boundaries	All Victorian electoral divisions and the new division	Many suggestions, specifically S34, S90, S97 and S100
CS38	Tim Watts MP	Division names	Gellibrand	S100
CS39	David Whittaker	Division names	New division	S58
CS40	Justin Lamond	Division boundaries	Ballarat, Chisholm, Deakin, Gippsland, Higgins, Hotham, Macnamara, McEwen, Menzies and the new division	S24, S34, S89, S90, S93 and S100
CS41	Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division)	Division boundaries	Ballarat, Bruce, Chisholm, Corangamite, Corio, Deakin, Goldstein, Gorton, Higgins, Holt, Hotham, Isaacs, La Trobe, Macnamara, McEwen, Menzies, Wannon and the new division	S6, S7, S8, S10, S13, S17, S19, S24, S28, S29, S30, S31, S34, S43, S70, S85, S87, S90, S93, S97, S99, S100, S101 and S102
CS42	Mark Moncrieff	Division names
CS43	Val Pantchenko	Division names	All Victorian electoral divisions and the new division
CS44	Zaccheus Evangelides	Division names and division boundaries	All Victorian electoral divisions and the new division
CS45	Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch)	Division names and division boundaries	All Victorian electoral divisions and the new division	Many suggestions, specifically S34, S90, S97 and S100
CS46	Louis Davis	Division boundaries	Cooper, Higgins, Hotham, Isaacs, Macnamara, Melbourne and Wills
CS47	Charles Richardson LL.B, Ph.D	Division names and division boundaries	All Victorian electoral divisions and the new division	S6, S7, S8, S10, S13, S17, S19, S24, S28, S29, S31, S34, S43, S69, S70, S84, S85, S87, S89, S90, S93, S97, S99, S100 and S101
CS48	Will Douglas	Division names and division boundaries	Bruce, Chisholm, Deakin, Goldstein, Higgins, Hotham, Isaacs, Macnamara, Menzies, Wills and the new electoral division	Many suggestions, specifically S24, S100 and S101