Victorian redistribution

6A. Inquiry into objections

Tuesday 13 August 2024

An inquiry was held into objections to the proposed redistribution of electoral divisions in Victoria, as outlined in a report published by the Redistribution Committee for Victoria on Friday 31 May 2024.

At the inquiry, individuals or organisations were able to address the augmented Electoral Commission for Victoria on any matter raised in an objection to the proposed redistribution of Victoria or in a comment on these objections.

Matters raised in objections and comments on objections include the:

  • abolition of the Division of Higgins
  • boundary of the proposed Division of Wills
  • electoral division(s) in which the suburbs of Mernda and Wollert are located
  • boundaries of the proposed Divisions of Bruce, Holt and Isaacs
  • boundaries of the proposed Divisions of Aston, Deakin and Menzies
  • boundary of the proposed Divisions of Macnamara and Melbourne

Topics raised in objections and comments on objections that were not raised at the inquiry will be considered by the augmented Electoral Commission for Victoria as part of its deliberations.

Thirty-seven submissions were made at the inquiry held by the augmented Electoral Commission on Tuesday 13 August 2024.

No.

Participant

IM1

Jeff Waddell 

IM2

Keith Wolahan MP – Member for Menzies

IM3

Peter Khalil MP – Member for Wills

IM4

Dr Carina Garland MP – Member for Chisholm

IM5

Cassandra Fernando MP – Member for Holt

IM6

Josh Burns MP – Member for Macnamara

IM7

Jennifer Jacomb

IM8

Dr Katie Allen

IM9

Jett Fogarty – Victorian Labor

IM10

Hon Julian Hill MP – Member for Bruce

IM11

Kevin Xiao

IM12

Dot Haynes OAM

IM13

Adam Carr

IM14

Thomas Minns

IM15

Martin Shield – Australian Greens Victoria

IM16

John Corcoran

IM17

Catherine Mao

IM18

Denny Meadows

IM19

Dean Tey

IM20

Peter Hammond

IM21

Irene Goonan – Tunstall Traders Association

IM22

Jacquie Blackwell

IM23

David Jamison AM – Ringwood RSL

IM24

David Brous

IM25

Alan Cullen

IM26

Gandhi Bhattarai – Australian Nepalese Multicultural Centre

IM27

Fiona Mowbray

IM28

Nina Taylor MP – Member for Albert Park (Vic)

IM29

Charles Richardson

IM30

Nos Hosseini – Iranian Women's Association

IM31

Kelvin Thomson

IM32

Peter Allaway

IM33

Stuart Smith – Liberal Party Victoria

IM34

Janelle Howell

IM35

Thomas Minns

IM36

Jett Fogarty – Victorian Labor

IM37

Adam Bandt MP – Member for Melbourne

The written record of the inquiry will be published to this page following tabling of the augmented Electoral Commission’s report in Parliament.

Updated: 30 August 2024

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