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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Hotham, Victoria
South-eastern Melbourne: Cheltenham, Clarinda, Moorabbin, Springvale South
Sitting member: Clare O'Neil (Labor), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 100,010
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.3%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. George Hua
Liberal Party |
2. Dr Helen Jeges
Animal Justice Party |
3. Clare O'Neil
Australian Labor Party |
4. James Bennett
Australian Greens |
5. Tatiana Rathbone
Family First |
6. Peter Vassiliou
Rise Up Australia |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Hotham was created in 1969, when the old seat of Higinbotham, which had existed since 1949, was renamed (to avoid confusion with a state seat of the same name). Over successive redistributions it has been shifted around the south-eastern suburbs, moving from the Moorabbin- Sandringham area towards Clayton and Springvale. In the process it has taken in some of Melbourne's most heavily working-class and "ethnic" newer suburbs, while shedding older middle-class areas, and has moved from fairly safe Liberal to safe Labor. It now has nearly a third of its population born in non English speaking countries, including nearly 10% born in South-East Asia, and a workforce of which nearly 20% are employed in manufacturing.
Simon Crean won Hotham for Labor in 1990. Crean belongs to the Labor aristocracy: his father Frank Crean was Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government, he was President of the ACTU from 1985 to 1990, and was put into the Hawke ministry as soon as he was elected in 1990, then promoted to Cabinet in 1991. He was an unsuccessful Opposition Leader in 2001-03, but his career revived as a senior minister in the Rudd-Gillard Government. In 2013 he resigned after his involvement in the botched first coup attempt against Gillard, and retired in 2013.
Clare O’Neil, Labor MP for Hotham since 2013, has a master's degree from Harvard and was a manager with McKinsey, and mayor of the City of Greater Dandenong, before her election. The Liberal candidate is George Hua, a software engineer.
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