By Shane Wright
The Labor-held seat of Higgins in Melbourne’s inner east would be abolished to boost the surrounding seats of Chisholm and Kooyong under a proposed revamp of Victoria’s electoral boundaries.
In a double blow for the Labor Party, the Australian Electoral Commission has also proposed a new seat in Western Australia that on preliminary estimates would be winnable for the Liberal Party.
Former treasurer Peter Costello held the seat of Higgins from 1990 to 2009. The Liberal Party held the seat until Katie Allen lost to Labor’s Michelle Ananda-Rajah in 2022.Credit: Bloomberg, Alex Ellinghausen
The electoral commission has to reduce the number of seats in both Victoria and NSW while adding one to WA due to population changes over recent years.
Higgins, held by first-term Labor MP Michelle Ananda-Rajah who won the seat from Liberal Party incumbent Katie Allen at the 2022 election, was famously held by Liberal treasurer Peter Costello. Since its creation in 1949, it had always been held by the Liberal Party until Ananda-Rajah’s victory.
Large parts of Higgins will go into the neighbouring seats of Kooyong, held by independent Monique Ryan, and Chisholm, held by Labor’s Carina Garland. Other sections will go into Labor-held Hotham and Macnamara along with the Greens-held seat of Melbourne.
In Western Australia, the new seat of Bullwinkel – named after Vivian Bullwinkel who was the sole survivor of the 1942 Bangka Island massacre – will be created in Perth’s eastern suburbs and across into the wheatbelt areas near Northam.
Large parts of Hasluck, held by Labor, would go into the new seat as would parts of the Liberal-held Durack, Canning and O’Connor.
Objections to both proposals can be made to the electoral commission by June 28.
The proposed boundaries for seats in NSW are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
More to come
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