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Fraser was created in 2018, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, as a result of Victoria's rapid growth in recent years.
It covered the heartland of Melbourne's working-class and multi-cultural west, based on St Albans and Sunshine. As a result
it was the safest Labor seat in Australia. (Cooper and
Grayndler have larger notional two-party majorities, but in those
seats Labor is under threat from the Greens.) It is a heavily working-class, Catholic and ethnic seat, with a very high
proportion of voters from non English speaking backgrounds, mainly Vietnamese and Chinese.
(This Fraser should not be confused with the earlier seat of
Fraser, which existed in the ACT from 1974 to 2016. That seat was
named for
Jim Fraser MP. It was renamed
Fenner in 2016 so that a Victorian
seat of Fraser could be created following
Malcolm Fraser's death in 2015.)
Fraser was formed from parts of the old seats of
Calwell,
Gellibrand,
Gorton and
Maribyrnong:
the latter held by then Opposition Leader
Bill Shorten. Shorten could have moved to Fraser had he chosen, but opted to stay
in Maribyrnong. After no more than the
usual amount of factional bickering, the Labor nomination (which is tantamount to election) went to Dr Daniel Mulino, a
member of the Victorian Legislative Council.
Dr Daniel Mulino, Labor MP for Fraser since 2019, was born in Italy and has a PhD in economics from Yale. He has worked as
a senior state public servant and as an advisor to Premier
Steve Bracks and Treasurer
John Lenders. He later worked for
Shorten when he was Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.
The 2021 redistribution has changed Fraser fairly radically, removing the northern half of the seat around Keilor and
extending it eastwards to take in Footscray, Maidstone and Yarraville, formerly in Gellibrand and Maribyrnong. This has increased
the already large Labor majority, but will also include more territory favourable to the Greens. The Liberal
candidate is David Wood, an accountant and business consultant. The Greens candidate is Bella Mitchell-Sears, a student.
Demographics:
Fraser is a new seat and no demographic data are available. These data are for the City of Brimbank, which covers much of the
same territory.
Median weekly household income: $1,263 (Australia $1,438)
People over 65: 13.6% (Australia 15.8%)
Australian born: 44.9% (Australia 66.7%)
Ancestry: Vietnamese 13.3%, Chinese 5.4%, Italian 5.4%
Non-English-speaking households: 62.3% (Australia 22.2%)
Catholics 31.3% (Australia 22.6%)
Buddhism: 10.8%
No religion 16.8% (Australia 29.6%)
University graduates: 16.0% (Australia 22.0%)
Professional and managerial employment: 22.8% (Australia 35.2%)
Employed in manufacturing and construction: 26.3% (Australia 22.9%)
Paying a mortgage: 34.2% (Australia 34.5%)
Renting: 26.0% (Australia 30.9%)
Traditional families: 40.5% (Australia 32.8%)
Gallery of Members for Fraser
Boundaries following most recent redistribution:
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Fraser is a new seat and no demographic data are available. These data are for the City of Brimbank, which covers much of the
same territory.
Median weekly household income: $1,263 (Australia $1,438)
People over 65: 13.6% (Australia 15.8%)
Australian born: 44.9% (Australia 66.7%)
Ancestry: Vietnamese 13.3%, Chinese 5.4%, Italian 5.4%
Non-English-speaking households: 62.3% (Australia 22.2%)
Catholics 31.3% (Australia 22.6%)
Buddhism: 10.8%
No religion 16.8% (Australia 29.6%)
University graduates: 16.0% (Australia 22.0%)
Professional and managerial employment: 22.8% (Australia 35.2%)
Employed in manufacturing and construction: 26.3% (Australia 22.9%)
Paying a mortgage: 34.2% (Australia 34.5%)
Renting: 26.0% (Australia 30.9%)
Traditional families: 40.5% (Australia 32.8%)
Gallery of Members for Fraser
Boundaries following most recent redistribution:
See full-size map of this Division
People over 65: 13.6% (Australia 15.8%)
Australian born: 44.9% (Australia 66.7%)
Ancestry: Vietnamese 13.3%, Chinese 5.4%, Italian 5.4%
Non-English-speaking households: 62.3% (Australia 22.2%)
Catholics 31.3% (Australia 22.6%)
Buddhism: 10.8%
No religion 16.8% (Australia 29.6%)
University graduates: 16.0% (Australia 22.0%)
Professional and managerial employment: 22.8% (Australia 35.2%)
Employed in manufacturing and construction: 26.3% (Australia 22.9%)
Paying a mortgage: 34.2% (Australia 34.5%)
Renting: 26.0% (Australia 30.9%)
Traditional families: 40.5% (Australia 32.8%)