Step 2. Invitation for suggestions – New South Wales federal redistribution

Members of the public were invited to submit written suggestions relating to the redistribution between Wednesday 27 September and Friday 27 October 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.

Suggestions

The 58 suggestions received by the New South Wales Redistribution Committee are provided below.

No	Submitted by	Topics referred to	Divisions referred to
S1	Andrew Kalokerinos	Division names and division boundaries	Newcastle, Shortland, Warringah, and Wentworth
S2	Gail Cornford	Division boundaries	Hunter
S3	Ian Scandrett	Division boundaries	Hume and Whitlam
S4	Cristiane Barber	Division boundaries	Barton and Grayndler
S5	Colin James Hesse	Other
S6	Fulin Yan	Division names and division boundaries	Banks, Barton, Cook, Cowper, Hughes, Parramatta, and Sydney
S7	Michael Albert Hedger	Division boundaries	Berowra, Bradfield, Calare, Chifley, Greenway, Hume, Macarthur, Mackellar, Macquarie, Mitchell, Newcastle, New England, North Sydney, Parkes, Richmond, Riverina, Warringah, and Werriwa
S8	Andrew Solomon	Division boundaries	Macquarie
S9	Tom Caldwell FPA	Division boundaries	Cowper and Page
S10	PJ	Division names and division boundaries	Calare, Cowper, Dobell, Hunter, Lyne, Newcastle, New England, Page, Paterson, Richmond, Robertson, and Shortland
S11	Ian James Stirling Bowie	Division boundaries	Whitlam
S12	Duncan Anderson	Division names and division boundaries	Bennelong, Berowra, Bradfield, Mackellar, Mitchell, North Sydney, and Warringah
S13	Martin Gordon	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S14	Jeff Waddell	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S15	Nimalan Sivakumar	Division names	Berowra and North Sydney
S16	Darren McSweeney	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S17	Rose	Division boundaries	Cunningham
S18	Leon Shinkai	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S19	Ben Last	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S20	G Verri	Division names	New England
S21	Carol Richard	Division boundaries	Farrer, New England, Parkes, and Riverina
S22	Kylea Tink MP	Division boundaries	North Sydney
S23	Stephen Lesslie	Division names	Berowra and Shortland
S24	The Hon Malcolm Turnbull AC	Division boundaries	Wentworth
S25	Benjamin Close	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S26	Nicholas Weston	Division boundaries	Bennelong, Berowra, Bradfield, Chifley, Greenway, Lindsay, Mackellar, Macquarie, McMahon, Mitchell, North Sydney, Parramatta, and Warringah
S27	John Pritchard	Division names and division boundaries	Hunter and Shortland
S28	Trevor Benson	Division boundaries	McMahon and Parramatta
S29	Peter Mitchell	Division names and division boundaries	Banks, Barton, Bennelong, Berowra, Blaxland, Bradfield, Chifley, Cook, Fowler, Grayndler, Greenway, Hughes, Kingsford Smith, Lindsay, Macarthur, Mackellar, Macquarie, McMahon , Mitchell, North Sydney, Parramatta, Reid, Sydney, Warringah, Watson, Wentworth, and Werriwa
S30	Nicole Antonelli	Division boundaries	Berowra and Robertson
S31	Mark Mulcair	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S32	James Punch	Division names	Paterson
S33	Gary Verri	Division boundaries
S34	Bob Jennings	Division boundaries	Calare, Eden-Monaro, New England, and Riverina
S35	David Beard	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S36	Mia Ginnivan	Division names
S37	Miranda Ball	Division names
S38	Patrick Corr	Division names and division boundaries	Cowper and Lyne
S39	Warren Grzic	Division names and division boundaries	Bennelong, Bradfield, Blaxland, Cunningham, Dobell, Lindsay, North Sydney, and Warringah
S40	Damien Ferri	Division names and division boundaries	Banks, Barton, Bennelong, Berowra, Blaxland, Bradfield, Chifley, Cook, Cunningham, Eden-Monaro, Fowler, Gilmore, Grayndler, Greenway, Hughes, Hume, Kingsford Smith,  Lindsay, Macarthur, Mackellar, Macquarie, McMahon, Mitchell, North Sydney, Parramatta, Reid, Sydney, Warringah, Watson, Wentworth, Werriwa, and Whitlam
S41	David M	Division names and division boundaries	Banks, Barton, Bennelong, Berowra, Blaxland, Bradfield, Cook, Fowler, Grayndler, Hughes, Kingsford Smith, Mackellar, Parramatta, Reid, Warringah, and Wentworth
S42	Zali Steggall OAM MP	Division boundaries	Mackellar, North Sydney, and Warringah
S43	David Lumsden	Division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S44	Allegra Spender MP	Division boundaries	Kingsford Smith and Wentworth
S45	Roger Woodward FCA	Division boundaries	Bennelong, Berowra, Bradfield, Mackellar, Mitchell, North Sydney, and Warringah
S46	The Greens NSW	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S47	Liberal Party of Australia, NSW Division	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S48	NSW Labor	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S49	Luke Dixon	Division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S50	NSW Nationals	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S51	Dr Sophie Scamps MP	Division boundaries	Mackellar
S52	Andrew Gee MP	Division names and division boundaries	Calare
S53	Justin Lamond	Division names and division boundaries	Banks, Barton, Bennelong, Berowra, Bradfield, Calare, Chifley, Cook, Cowper, Cunningham, Dobell, Eden-Monaro, Farrer, Fowler, Gilmore, Grayndler, Greenway, Hughes, Hume, Hunter, Kingsford Smith, Lindsay, Lyne, Mackellar, McMahon, Macquarie, Mitchell, Newcastle, New England, North Sydney, Page, Parkes, Parramatta, Paterson, Reid, Richmond, Riverina, Robertson, Shortland, Sydney, Warringah, Watson, Wentworth, and Whitlam
S54	Conor Magee	Division names and division boundaries	Banks, Barton, Bennelong, Berowra, Blaxland, Bradfield, Cook, Cunningham, Fowler, Grayndler, Greenway, Kingsford Smith, Mackellar, McMahon, Mitchell, North Sydney, Parramatta, Sydney, Warringah, Watson, and Wentworth
S55	Michael Ritchie	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S56	Joshua Lucock Attachment to suggestions XLSX	Division names and division boundaries	All NSW electoral divisions
S57	Phil Crofts	Division boundaries	Cowper
S58	Anonymous1	Division boundaries