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Location: Perth: Gosnells, Helena Valley, Kalamunda, Midland Division named for: Rt Hon Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia 1969-74, and his wife Dame Alexandra Hasluck, writer Median weekly family income: $896 (77th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 10.4% (72nd highest) Persons born in the UK and Ireland: 14.2% (6th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 17.5% (134th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 10.4% (110th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 38.0% (83rd highest) Dwellings being purchased: 40.1% (12th highest) Sitting member: Sharryn Jackson (Labor), elected 2001, defeated 2004, elected 2007 Born: 12 February 1962. Career: Educated University of WA. Union official. Officer, WA Trades and Labor Council. MHR for Hasluck 2001-04. Chief of Staff to WA Minister for Sport and Recreation 2004-05. Director, Community Cabinet and Liason Unit, WA Department of Premier and Cabinet 2005-07. 2001 two-party majority: Labor 01.8 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 01.8 2007 two-party majority: Labor 01.3 
2004 enrolment: 80,544 2007 enrolment: 82,331 (+02.2%) Hasluck was created at the 2001 redistribution, in Perth's fast-growing outer eastern suburbs. Although it has the high proportion of dwellings being purchased typical of outer suburban seats, it has a lower rate of families with dependent children than is usual for such seats, and cannot be classed as a pure mortgage belt seat as a result. It has a low proportion of people born in non English speaking countries, and a very low proportion of people in professional occupations. The Labor vote in concentrated in the Midland areas in the north of the seat, and around Thornlie and Gosnells in the south - the middle part of seat around Kalamunda is heavily Liberal. Hasluck was won in 2001 by Labor's Sharryn Jackson, but John Howard's successful pitch to outer suburban voters allowed the Liberals' Stuart Henry to claim the seat in 2004. In 2007, aided by the Howard government's unpopular WorkChoices laws, Jackson regained the seat with a 3.1% swing - a good reasult for Labor in a state where two other seats were lost. Labor polled 63% of the two-party vote at Koongamya and Middle Swan, and also topped 60% at Gosnells South, Maddington, Maddington East and Midland. The Liberals polled 62% at Gooseberry Hill and Lesmurdie. | |  Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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