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Division of Dunkley | Eden-Monaro |
 Hon Bruce Billson (Lib) His electorate website |  |
Location: Melbourne: Frankston, Karingal, Mornington, Mt Eliza Division named for: Louisa Dunkley, trade unionist and campaigner for equal pay for women Median weekly family income: $951 (65th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 7.6% (87th highest) Persons born in the UK and Ireland: 11.2% (11th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 23.1% (96th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 14.2% (54th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 36.0% (106th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 33.9% (27th highest) Sitting member: Hon Bruce Billson (Liberal), elected 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004 Born: 26 January 1966, Albury, New South Wales. Career: Manager Corporate Development Shire of Hastings, Ministerial adviser to Hon Geoff Coleman MLA and to Senator Hon Rod Kemp. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs 2004, Parliamentary Secretary (Foreign Affairs and Trade) 2004-05, Parliamentary Secretary (Foreign Affairs) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 2005-06, Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence 2006-07. Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 2007. Shadow Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 2007-08. Shadow Minister for Sustainable Development and Cities from 22 September 2008 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 03.4 1998 two-party majority: Liberal 02.0 2001 two-party majority: Liberal 05.4 Effect of 2004 redistribution: 00.2 shift to Labor 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 09.4 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 04.0 
2004 enrolment: 90,791 2007 enrolment: 93,168 (+02.6%) Dunkley was created in 1984, based on Frankston, a suburban centre at the southern end of Melbourne's urban sprawl. Frankston itself tends to vote Labor, but subsequent redistributions have extended the seat further south into solidly Liberal territory around Mt Eliza and Mornington. Although it has a lower proportion of families with dependent children than most outer suburban seats, it is still sensitive to interest rates and similar economic issues. A marginal seat when it was created, it has become better for the Liberals at recent elections. Bruce Billson has held the seat for the Liberals since 1996. Billson was a junior minister in the last term of the Howard government and has been on Opposition front bench since 2007. In 2007 Labor gained a swing of 5.4% and polled 65% of the two-party vote at Aldercourt and 64% at Frankson Monterey. The Liberals polled 78% at Mt Eliza Central | | 
Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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