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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Fowler, New South Wales
South-western Sydney: Bossley Park, Cabramatta, Liverpool, Warwick Farm
Sitting member: Chris Hayes (Labor), elected 2005
Enrolment at close of rolls: 105,483
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 16.8%
2016 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 14.5%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Bill Cashman
Australian Greens |
2. Adam Farhan
Liberal Party |
3. Chris Hayes
Australian Labor Party |
4. Joaquim de Lima
Independent |
5. Craig Hall
Christian Democrats |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Fowler was created in 1984, based in the heartland of Sydney's south- western suburbs in the Liverpool-Cabramatta area. Over the past 30 years this has become Australia's most economically and socially deprived urban area. Fowler usually has among the highest rates of unemployment, of families in poverty, and of people with no post-school qualifications, of any urban seat. The electorate also has the country's highest proportion of people born in non English speaking countries, the bulk of whom were born in South-East Asia.
Not surprisingly, Fowler has always been a very safe Labor seat. But the Labor Party has never used this, one of its safest seats, as the base for a candidate with ministerial, let alone leadership, prospects. Its first two members, Ted Grace and Julia Irwin, were undistinguished backbenchers. In 2010 Irwin retired, and the seat was used to accommodate Chris Hayes, who had been displaced from Werriwa.
Chris Hayes, Labor MP for Werriwa from 2005 to 2010 and for Fowler since 2010, was assistant national secretary of the Australian Workers' Union and senior adviser to the Police Federation of Australia and New Zealand before his election. He won the 2005 by- election in Werriwa caused by the resignation of Mark Latham. The 2010 redistribution resulted in John Murphy moving from the abolished seat of Lowe to Reid, and Laurie Ferguson moved from Reid to Werriwa, requiring Hayes to move to the vacant Fowler. Hayes was Chief Government Whip in 2013 and has been Chief Opposition Whip since 2013.
The 2016 redistribution has consolidated the seat in the Cabramatta-Liverpool area, but has also added some Liberal territory around Abbottsbury,
slightly reducing the Labor majority. The Liberal candidate is Adam Farham, a managing director.
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