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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Cook, New South Wales
Southern Sydney: Caringbah, Cronulla, Miranda, Ramsgate
Sitting member: Hon Scott Morrison (Liberal), elected 2007
Enrolment at close of rolls: 104,432
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 16.4%
2016 notional Liberal majority over Labor: 15.8%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. John Brett
Independent |
2. Hon Scott Morrison
Liberal Party |
3. George Capsis
Christian Democrats |
4. Nathan Hunt
Australian Greens |
5. David Atkins
Australian Labor Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Cook was created in 1969, based in the southern suburbs of Sydney between Botany Bay and the Georges River (there was an earlier seat of Cook in inner Sydney, which was abolished in 1955). Centred on Cronulla and Miranda, it is a solidly middle-class area with a high proportion of people in professional occupations. In the 1970s these were fairly new suburbs with a high level of families with children and people paying mortgages. Today the population is mainly older home-owners, with a low proportion of people born in non English speaking countries. Cook was politically marginal when it was created, and Labor won it in 1972 and 1974, but it grew steadily safer for the Liberals in the 1980s and '90s.
Bruce Baird, a former NSW Liberal state minister, won Cook in 1998. Baird expected to be a minister when he came to Canberra, but was disappointed, and joined Petro Georgiou in becoming a back-bench rebel, especially on immigration issues. He retired in 2007. His son Mike Baird is now Premier of NSW.
Scott Morrison, Liberal MP for Cook since 2007, was deputy chief executive of the Australian Tourism Task Force, general manager of the Tourism Council, director of the New Zealand Office of Tourism and Sport, state director of the NSW Liberal Party and managing director of Tourism Australia before entering politics. With this glittering CV, he was expected to gain rapid promotion. He was on the opposition fron bench from 2008, and became Immigration in the Abbott Government in 2013. He was a strong supporter of Abbott, but abandoned him in 2015, and became Treasurer in the Turnbull Government.
The 2016 redistribution has extended Cook north of the Georges River for the first time, taking in Blakehurst, Ramsgate and Sans Souci. This has somewhat reduced the Liberal majority, but not enough to pose any threat to Morrison's hold on the seat.
The Labor candidate is David Atkins, a student.
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Other seats of interest
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