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Division of Flinders | Flynn |
 Hon Greg Hunt (Lib) His electorate website |  |
Location: South-east of Melbourne: Hastings, Mount Martha, Rosebud, Somerville Division named for: Captain Matthew Flinders, explorer of southern Australia Median weekly family income: $816 (112th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 5.5% (97th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 22.7% (102nd highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 17.1% (14th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 35.3% (114th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 30.3% (44th highest) Sitting member: Hon Greg Hunt (Liberal), elected 2001, 2004, 2007 Born: 18 November 1965, Melbourne. Career: Lawywer, adviser to Alexander Downer MHR 1994-98, Engagement Manager McKinsey and Co, Director of Strategy World Economic Forum Geneva. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Environment and Heritage 2004-07, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs 2007. Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry from 2007. Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Urban Water 2007-08. Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Water from 22 September 2008 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 10.1 1998 two-party majority: Liberal 03.7 2001 two-party majority: Liberal 07.6 Effect of 2004 redistribution: 00.1 shift to Labor 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 11.1 2007 two-party majority: Liberal 08.3 
2004 enrolment: 90,990 2007 enrolment: 95,608 (+05.1%) Flinders has existed since Federation, and has always occupied the Mornington Peninsula area south of Melbourne. At various times it has also taken in large areas of the southern suburbs of Melbourne and parts of western Gippsland. On its current boundaries most of its voters live in the tourism and retirement towns on the Peninsula, from Mount Martha to Portsea. Some of these, such as Portsea, are very wealthy, while others are full of pensioners of very modest means. This explains both the electorate's low median family income and its high proportion of over-65s. In the 1970s and '80s, when the seat included the Labor-voting area of Frankston, the seat was highly marginal. But Labor has won Flinders only three times, including the famous upset in 1929 when Nationalist Prime Minister Stanley Bruce was defeated. On its current boundaries it is fairly safe for the Liberals. Apart from Bruce, eminent members for Flinders have included Liberal Cabinet ministers Sir Phillip Lynch and Peter Reith. Greg Hunt has held the seat for the Liberals since Reith's retirement in 2001. Hunt, the son of longtime state minister Alan Hunt, was a parliamentary secretary in the last term of the Howard government, and has been shadow minister for environmental and water issues since 2007. In 2007 the Liberals polled 82% of the two-party vote at Portsea, and also topped 70% at Bayles, Catani, Glen Alvie, Kernot and Moorooduc. Labor gained only a modest swing in 2007, winning only the booths of West Park and Somers. | | 
Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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