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Division of Gellibrand | Gilmore |
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Location: Melbourne: Altona, Footscray, Maidstone, Williamstown Division named for: Joseph Gellibrand, pioneer and explorer of Victoria Median weekly family income: $926 (70th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 28.1% (19th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 25.7% (69th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 13.6% (66th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 36.3% (103rd highest) Dwellings being purchased: 23.8% (89th highest) Sitting member: Hon Nicola Roxon (Labor), elected 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 Born: 1 April 1967, Sydney. Career: Industrial lawyer, Judge's Associate High Court of Australia, organiser National Union of Workers, Senior Associate Maurice Blackburn and Co. Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry since 2001, Shadow Minister for Children and Youth 2001-03, Shadow Minister for Population and Immigration 2003, Shadow Attorney-General 2003-06, Assisting the Leader on the Status of Women 2003-04, Shadow Minister for Health 2006-07 Minister for Health and Ageing from 3 December 2007 1996 two-party majority: Labor 21.2 1998 two-party majority: Labor 25.9 2001 two-party majority: Labor 21.8 Effect of 2004 redistribution: 05.5 shift to Liberal 2004 two-party majority: Labor 14.9 2007 two-party majority: Labor 21.5 
2004 enrolment: 91,016 2007 enrolment: 93,277 (+02.5%) Gellibrand was created in 1949, occupying a block of Melbourne's working-class western suburbs, based on Footscray and Williamstown. Successive redistributions have extended it westwards into newer suburban areas, without much changing its political character, although the 2004 redistribution reduced Labor's majority by 5.5%. The seat, or at least the part nearer the city of Melbourne, is now changing from being a working-class Labor seat to being an inner-city multicultural Labor seat, as shown by the relatively high income level, the high proportion of people born in non English speaking countries and the fairly high proportion in professional occupations. This combination is always an indicator of Labor strength. Members for Gellibrand have included Ralph Willis, Treasurer in the Keating government. Nicola Roxon succeeded him in 1998. She was on the opposition frontbench from 2001 to 2007, and became Minister for Health and Ageing on the election of the Rudd government in 2007. Roxon took a substantial adverse swing in 2004 but recouped all of it in 2007. Labor won every booth, all except one with more than 60% of the two-party vote. The Labor vote reached 80% at Tottenham North, and passed 75% at five booths in Footscray and three booths in Altona, and at Braybrook, Kingsville, Newport West and Yarraville. The best Liberal vote was 40% at Williamstown West. | | 
Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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