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Division of Gilmore | Gippsland |
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Location: South Coast NSW: Bateman's Bay, Kiama, Milton, Nowra Division named for: Dame Mary Gilmore, poet Median weekly family income: $655 (145th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 4.7% (112th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 22.1% (109th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 19.8% (3rd highest) Couple families with dependent children: 31.7% (141st highest) Dwellings being purchased: 20.3% (126th highest) Sitting member: Joanna Gash (Liberal), elected 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 Born: 21 July 1944, Netherlands. Career: Guest house co-proprietor, Regional Manager Tourism Commission of NSW, Director Southern Highlands Tourism Agency, Consultant Macarthur Country Tourist Association. Councillor, Wingecarribee Shire Council. Deputy Government Whip 2001-07. Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry 2007-08. Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism 2007-08 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 06.2 1998 two-party majority: Liberal 04.0 Effect of 2001 redistribution: 00.5 shift to Liberal 2001 two-party majority: Liberal 14.7 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 10.1 Effect of 2006 redistribution: 00.6 shift to Labor 2007 notional two-party majority: Liberal 09.5 2007 two-party majority: Liberal 04.1 
2004 enrolment: 87,620 2007 enrolment: 87,536 (-00.1%) (new boundaries) Gilmore was created in 1984, originally as a country seat running inland from the southern NSW coast to Goulburn. The 1993 redistribution turned it into a coastal seat based on Nowra and Kiama. On those boundaries it was a marginal seat, but it has grown safer for the Liberals since 1996. It is now mainly a farming, tourism and retirement seat, with a the country's third-highest proportion of over-65s and low levels of median family income, families with dependent children and dwellings being purchased. The 2006 redistribution removed Liberal-voting Moss Vale and addded marginally Liberal Bateman's Bay. Members for Gilmore have been John Sharp (National) 1984-93, Peter Knott (Labor) 1993-96, and Joanna Gash (Liberal) since 1996. Although this seat elected a Labor MP as recently as 1993, and produced a 5.4% swing to Labor in 2007, it seems now to be fairly secure for the Liberals. In 2007 the Liberals polled 72% of the two-party vote at Terara, and topped 60% at Bomaderry South, Cambewarra, Illaroo, Mayflower, Nelligan and Nowra Hill. Labor polled 59% at Manyana and 57% at Bawley Point and Erowal Bay. | | 
Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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