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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Isaacs, Victoria
Southern Melbourne: Chelsea, Keysborough, Mordialloc, Noble Park
Sitting member: Hon Mark Dreyfus (Labor), elected 2007
Enrolment at close of rolls: 105,722
2013 Labor majority over Liberal 3.9%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Alex Breskin
Australian Greens |
2. Hon Mark Dreyfus
Australian Labor Party |
3. Garry Spencer
Liberal Party |
4. Elizabeth Johnston
Animal Justice Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Isaacs was created in 1969 (there was an older seat of Isaacs in another part of Melbourne), running down the eastern shore of Port Phillip, and has always been a marginal seat. Although Isaacs has a fairly high level of median family income, it also has a high proportion of people employed in manufacturing, and a low proportion of people in professional occupations. This would suggest an electorate with a large number of skilled workers, and indeed 24% of its workforce are described as tradespersons or labourers.
Isaacs is also a mortgage belt seat, with a high level of families with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased. The electorate's fear of interest rate rises partly explains the large swing against Labor in 2004, while it was the fear among manufacturing workers of the Howard Government's WorkChoices policy that produced a big swing back to Labor in 2007.
Mark Dreyfus, MP for Isaacs since 2007, and the first member for Isaacs to be a minister, was a leading Melbourne barrister, and also an adviser to several Labor state ministers, before his election. He was appointed a parliamentary secretary in 2010 and became Attorney- General and Special Minister of State in early 2013. He is now shadow attorney-general. Although there was a big swing to the Liberals in 2013, Dreyfus is now fairly secure in this seat. The Liberal candidate is Garry Spencer AO, a former Army officer and now a management consultant.
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