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Division of Eden-Monaro | Fadden |
 Hon Dr Mike Kelly AM (ALP) His ministerial website and his electorate website |  |
Location: Southern NSW: Bega, Cooma, Queanbeyan, Tumut Division named for: The town of Eden and the region of the Monaro. Eden was named in 1842 after George Eden, Earl of Auckland. Monaro is an Indigenous word probably meaning "breast-shaped hills." Median weekly family income: $805 (115th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 6.5% (92nd highest) Persons in professional occupations: 26.1% (65th highest) Persons employed in tourism: 9.5% (3rd highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 13.6% (67th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 36.7% (97th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 22.3% (103rd highest) Sitting member: Hon Dr Mike Kelly (Labor), elected 2007 Born 23 February 1960, Adelaide. Career: Educated Macquarie University, University of NSW (PhD). Lawyer. Army officer 1987-2007, served Somalia, Timor, Balkans, Iraq. Author. Order of Australia 1994. Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support from 3 December 2007 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 04.8 1998 two-party majority: Liberal 00.2 Effect of 2001 redistribution: no change 2001 two-party majority: Liberal 01.7 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 02.1 Effect of 2006 redistribution: 01.2 shift to Liberal 2007 notional two-party majority: Liberal 03.3 2007 two-party majority: Liberal 03.4 
2004 enrolment: 92,532 2007 enrolment: 91,610 (-01.0%) (new boundaries) Eden-Monaro has existed since Federation, and has always occupied the south-eastern corner of NSW. For most of its history it was a seat based on farming, fishing and timber, but the growth of the Canberra dormitory town of Queanbeyan means that today the largest employment sector is government employment (20.3%), while only 6.3% of the population work in agriculture - fewer than the 10% who work in tourism. Nevertheless the electorate is still sensitive to rural issues: Labor was hurt in this seat by Mark Latham's anti-logging foresty policy in 2004. Eden-Monaro was usually a safe conservative seat until 1943, when it was won for Labor by Allan Fraser, who held it until his defeat in 1966, and again from 1969 to 1972. Since 1972 Eden-Monaro has shared with Leichhardt the distinction of always being held by a government member. Gary Nairn won the seat for the Liberals in 1996, Nairn was a minister in the last term of the Howard government. The 2006 redistribution has added Liberal-voting Tumut to the seat, but this is one of the few country seats where Labor's base vote has held up, and in 2007 Nairn was easily defeated by Labor's Mike Kelly, a former Army colonel with a distinguished record in Iraq and elsewhere. Labor polled 80% of the two-party vote at Tanja, and topped 60% at Batlow, Brogo, Broulee, Candelo, Central Tilba, Majors Creek, Qaama, five booths in Queanbeyan, Towamba, Tumut East and Wyndham. The Liberals polled 67% at Jingellic. | |  Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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