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Location: Melbourne: Dandenong, Glen Waverley, Mulgrave, Wheelers Hill
Division named for: Rt Hon Stanley Bruce, Viscount Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia 1923-29 Median weekly family income: $962 (59th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 36.2% (6th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 24.0% (89th highest) Persons employed in manufacturing: 21.2% (9th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 12.7% (86th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 39.0% (64th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 22.7% (97th highest) Sitting member: Hon Alan Griffin (Labor), elected (for Corinella) 1993, (for Bruce) 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 Born: 23 February 1960, Melbourne. Career: Union organiser, electorate secretary, ministerial adviser. Councillor, Springvale City Council 1991-93. Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry since 1998. Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Minister for Health 1998-01, Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition 2001-03, Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Minister for Treasury, Finance and Small Business (Consumer Affairs and Banking Services) 2001-03, Shadow Minister for Consumer Protection and Consumer Health 2003, Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs 2003-04, Assisting the Shadow Minister for Health 2003-04, Shadow Minister for Sport and Recreation 2004-05, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Shadow Special Minister of State 2005-06, Shadow Minister for Defence Science and Personnel 2006-07. Minister for Veterans' Affairs from 3 December 2007 1996 two-party majority: Labor 00.8 1998 two-party majority: Labor 06.2 2001 two-party majority: Labor 05.5 Effect of 2004 redistribution: 01.0 shift to Labor 2004 two-party majority: Labor 03.5 2007 two-party majority: Labor 08.3 
2004 enrolment: 86,999 2007 enrolment: 88,393 (+02.3%) Bruce was created in 1955, in Melbourne's fast-growing eastern suburbs: at that time it covered the whole outer eastern suburban area, and by 1966 had over 100,000 voters. In 1969 it was cut back to a block of suburbs based on Glen Waverley, and on those boundaries it was a fairly safe Liberal seat, although Labor nearly won it in 1983. The 1996 redistribution, however, moved the seat south to take in the industrial area around Dandenong, and since then it has been a marginal Labor seat, although it still has a higher than average median income level. The key to Labor's strength is the very high level of people born in non English speaking countries, concentrated in the Dandenong area. The northern part of the seat around Glen Waverley is still Liberal, but the southern part of the seat is reliably Labor. The first member for Bruce was Sir Billy Snedden, who was Leader of the Opposition and Speaker of the House. Alan Griffin won the seat for Labor in 1996 after a favourable redistribution. Griffin (who was previously member for Corinella) was an Opposition front-bencher 1998-2007 and is now Minister for Veterans' Affairs. In 2007 Griffin gained a 4.8% swing. Labor polled 76% of the two-party vote at Sandown Park, and over 70% at Lyndale, Oakwood Park and Silverton. Labor polled over 65% at all the Dandenong booths. The Liberals polled 60% at Jells Park and Wheelers Hill. | | 
Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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