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Division of Makin | Mallee |
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Location: Adelaide: Modbury, Para Hills, Salisbury Heights, Tea Tree
Gully Division named for: Hon Norman Makin, South Australian federal MP 1919-46 and 1954-63 Median weekly family income: $930 (68th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 10.1% (75th highest) Persons born in the UK and Ireland: 14.1% (7th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 19.1% (127th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 10.0% (113th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 38.5% (70th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 39.9% (13th highest) Sitting member: Tony Zappia (Labor), elected 2007 Born: 13 June 1952, Italy. Career: Bank officer, fitness centre manager. Research assistant to Senator Hon James Cavanagh. Councillor, City of Salisbury, Mayor 1997-2007. 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 01.1 1998 two-party majority: Liberal 00.9 Effect of redistribution: 00.1 shift to Labor 2001 two-party majority: Liberal 03.8 Effect of 2004 redistribution: no change 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 00.9 2004 two-party majority: Labor 07.7 
2004 enrolment: 93,908 2007 enrolment: 94,934 (+01.1%) Makin was created at the 1984 redistribution, based in the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, a socially mixed and always politically marginal area. It is a young, mortgage belt electorate, with a high level of families with dependent children and a very high level of dwellings being purchased. Makin was won for Labor in 1984 by Peter Duncan, a long-serving former state minister with a high profile, who was a junior minister in the Keating government. Duncan was swept away in the Howard landslide of 1996, replaced by Trish Draper, a Howard favourite who entrenched herself in the seat. She retired in 2007, and the seat was easily won by Labor, with a swing of 8.6%. The new member is Tony Zappia, a former mayor of Salisbury. Labor polled 71% of the two-party vote at Ingle Farm North (which saw a swing of 11%), and topped 65% at Ingle Farm, Para Hills, Para Hills West, Para Vista, Parooka and Parooka North. The Liberals polled 58% at Golden Grove. | |  Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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