Step 2. Public suggestions – Western Australian federal redistribution

Members of the public were invited to submit written suggestions relating to the redistribution between Wednesday 23 September 2020 and 6pm AWST Friday 23 October 2020.  Guidelines were available to help those making submissions who were recommended to look at:

• Essential information about the WA redistribution
• Who makes the proposed redistribution and what factors do they consider?

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.

In developing a suggestion about the names of federal electoral divisions, 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 suggestion about the boundaries of a federal electoral division, 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

Suggestions

The 27 suggestions received by the WA Redistribution Committee are provided below.

No	Submitted by	Topics referred to	Divisions referred to
S1	Benjamin Riley	Division names	Stirling
S2	Pauline Daphne Bunce	Other
S3	Michael Wood	Division boundaries	Curtin and Perth
S4	Joe Ferrante	Division boundaries	Perth
S5	Emeritus Professor Dennis Rumley BA (Hons), MA (N-U-T) Ph D (UBC)	Other
S6	Iain M Scott	Other
S7	Michael Albert Hedger	Division names and division boundaries	Durack, Pearce, Swan and Tangney
S8	Ned O Strange	Division boundaries	Brand, Burt, Canning, Durack, Hasluck, O'Connor, Pearce and Tangney
S9	Caitlin	Division names
S10	Jeff Waddell	Division boundaries	All Western Australian electoral divisions
S11	Rose-Mary Crimp	Division names
S12	Natalie Wright	Division names
S13	Michael Higgins	Other
S14	Jed Major	Division boundaries	Brand, Burt, Fremantle and Tangney
S15	David Liam Walsh	Division names and division boundaries	All Western Australian electoral divisions
S16	Caitlin	Division names	Curtin, Forrest, Fremantle, Moore, Pearce and Stirling
S17	Dr Mark Mulcair	Division names and division boundaries	All Western Australian electoral divisions
S18	Anonymous 1 *Attachment to suggestion XLSX [332KB]	Division boundaries	All Western Australian electoral divisions
S19	City of Mandurah	Division boundaries	Brand, Canning, Hasluck, O'Connor and Pearce
S20	Darren McSweeney	Division names and division boundaries	All Western Australian electoral divisions
S21	Trish Bergin, Professor Kim Rubenstein, Hon Mary Delahunty GAICD, Dr Nikki Henningham, Professor Jane Lyndon, Clare Thomspon and Professor Clare Wright OAM	Division names
S22	Edmund Rice Centre WA	Division boundaries	Cowan and Stirling
S23	WA Labor	Division boundaries	All Western Australian electoral divisions
S24	Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division)	Division names and division boundaries	All Western Australian electoral divisions
S25	City of Armadale	Division boundaries	Burt
S26	Dean Ashley	Division names and division boundaries	All Western Australian electoral divisions
S27	The Nationals WA *Attachment to suggestion ZIP [1.77MB]	Division names and division boundaries	All Western Australian electoral divisions