Australian Capital Territory redistribution

2. Suggestions Closed

Closed on Fri 24 Nov 2017

Members of the public were invited to submit written suggestions relating to the redistribution between Wednesday 25 October 2017 and Friday 24 November 2017.  Guidelines were available to help with your submission.

Suggestions may concern one or more federal electoral divisions and may be about:

  • names of federal electoral divisions,
  • boundaries of federal electoral divisions, or
  • the names and boundaries of federal electoral divisions.

The 16 suggestions received by the ACT Redistribution Committee are provided below

No. Submitted by Topics referred to Divisions referred to
S1 Martin Gordon Division names and division boundaries Canberra, Fenner and new division
S2 Simon France Other
S3 Rohan Goyne Division names and division boundaries The new division
S4 Ronald Sait Division names The new division
S5 Jeff Waddell Division names and division boundaries Canberra, Fenner, and the new division
S6 Dr Michael Hedger Division names The new division
S7 Stephen Wilks Division names The new division
S8 ACT Labor Division names and division boundaries Canberra, Fenner, and the new division
S9 David Walsh Division names and division boundaries Canberra, Fenner, and the new division
S10 Paul Meyer Division names The new division
S11 Dr Mark Mulcair Division names and division boundaries Canberra, Fenner, and the new division
S12 Josh Wyndham-Kidd Division names and boundaries Canberra, Fenner and the new division
S13 Brian Cox Division names The new division
S14 Kim Fischer and Stephen Bounds Division boundaries Canberra, Fenner and the new division
S15 Darren McSweeney Division names and boundaries Canberra, Fenner and the new division
S16 Canberra Liberals Division names and boundaries Canberra, Fenner and the new division

The following suggestions were identified as submitted by individuals who were not residents of the ACT at the time of lodgment:

  • S5 – Jeff Waddell
  • S6 – Dr Michael Hedger
  • S9 – David Walsh
  • S11 – Dr Mark Mulcair
  • S15 – Darren McSweeney

The views expressed in the material reproduced above are those of the individuals or organisations who lodged the comment on suggestions, not the Australian Capital Territory Redistribution Committee or the AEC.

Updated: 24 October 2017

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