The Division of Grayndler is an
Australian electoral division in the
state
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of
New South Wales
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. It is currently represented by
Prime Minister of Australia
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and Leader of the
Australian Labor Party
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,
Anthony Albanese
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.
Grayndler covers most of
Sydney
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's newly formed
Inner West Council
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. The electorate includes the suburbs of
Leichhardt,
Lilyfield
Lilyfield is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lilyfield is located 6 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Inner West Council.
Lilyfield is ...
,
Petersham,
Lewisham
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,
Enmore,
Haberfield,
Summer Hill and parts of
Newtown,
Ashfield,
Dulwich Hill
Dulwich Hill is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 7.5 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Inner West Council. Dulwich Hill stretche ...
,
Marrickville
Marrickville is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Marrickville is located south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the largest suburb in the Inner West Council local government ...
,
and
Tempe.
The current
MP is
Anthony Albanese
Anthony Norman Albanese ( or ; born 2 March 1963) is an Australian politician serving as the 31st and current prime minister of Australia since 2022. He has been the Leaders of the Australian Labor Party#Leader, leader of the Labor Party si ...
, the
Prime Minister of Australia
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and the
Leader of the Australian Labor Party
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.
History
The division was created in 1949 and is named for
Ted Grayndler (1867–1943), a Member of the
New South Wales Legislative Council
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from 1921 to 1934 and 1936 to 1943, and General Secretary of the
Australian Workers' Union
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from 1912 to 1941. The division was originally a solidly working-class area, although migration and
gentrification
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have since radically changed its demography.
Despite the demographic changes, it has been held by the
Australian Labor Party
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for its entire existence; the
Liberals have only once received 40 percent of the two-party vote. Grayndler also has a very high percentage of
Australian Greens
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voters with 23 percent of the primary vote at the
2013 election. At the
2010 election, the
two-party-preferred vote
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was between Labor and the Greens, one of only 3 in Australia (the others being
Batman
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and the Greens held
Melbourne
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).
Its most prominent members have been
Fred Daly Fred Daly may refer to:
* Fred Daly (American football), American football player at Yale, head football coach at Williams College (1913–1914)
* Fred Daly (politician) (1912–1995), member of the Australian House of Representatives (1943 ...
, who was a minister in the
Whitlam
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government,
Leo McLeay
Leo Boyce McLeay (born 4 October 1945) is a former Australian politician who served as a Labor Party member of the House of Representatives from June 1979 to October 2004. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives 1989–93. During 1992 h ...
, who was
Speaker of the House
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Usage
The title was first recorded in 1377 to describe the role of Thomas de Hung ...
1989–93, and
Anthony Albanese
Anthony Norman Albanese ( or ; born 2 March 1963) is an Australian politician serving as the 31st and current prime minister of Australia since 2022. He has been the Leaders of the Australian Labor Party#Leader, leader of the Labor Party si ...
, the present member for the seat. Albanese was a minister in the
Rudd
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and
Gillard governments,
Deputy Prime Minister
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for three months in 2013, and is currently the leader of the Labor Party (since 2019) and Prime Minister of Australia (since 2022).
Daly was succeeded by
Tony Whitlam
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Early life and education
Whitlam was born in Elizabeth Bay ...
at the
1975 election, the election that Whitlam's father and Labor Party leader
Gough Whitlam
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had lost. The younger Whitlam served only one term before losing preselection to
Frank Stewart
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, who transferred from the abolished neighbouring
Division of Lang
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. Stewart died in office in 1979 and the seat was won by McLeay in the subsequent
by-election.
When
Transport Minister
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Graham Richardson
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was briefly forced out of cabinet due to the
Marshall Islands
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The territory consists of 29 c ...
affair before the
1993 election, Albanese, who was a left-wing power-broker in the party, arranged for fellow left-winger
Jeannette McHugh
Jeannette McHugh (; born 18 December 1934) is an Australian former politician who was the first woman from New South Wales elected to federal parliament. She served in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 1996, representing the Australian ...
to be promoted to the ministry. McHugh's seat of
Phillip was due to be abolished in the election. Being a minister allowed her to be entitled to a seat, so she transferred to Grayndler. This forced McLeay to transfer from Grayndler to
Watson
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. McHugh retired in
1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
and handed the seat to Albanese, who still holds it today.
Boundaries
Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the
Australian Electoral Commission
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A ...
. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.
At , it is Australia's second-smallest electorate,
located in the inner-southern
Sydney
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metropolitan area, including parts of the
inner-west. The electorate includes the suburbs of
Ashfield,
Ashbury,
Burwood Heights,
Croydon Park,
Dobroyd Point,
Dulwich Hill
Dulwich Hill is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 7.5 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Inner West Council. Dulwich Hill stretche ...
,
Enfield,
Enmore,
Haberfield,
Hurlstone Park
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,
Leichhardt,
Lewisham
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,
Marrickville
Marrickville is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Marrickville is located south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the largest suburb in the Inner West Council local government ...
,
Petersham,
Rodd Island
Rodd Island is a island on the Parramatta River in Sydney, Australia. It lies in the centre of Iron Cove, between the suburbs of Drummoyne, Russell Lea, Rodd Point, Haberfield, Lilyfield and Leichhardt. It is located west of the Sydney Har ...
,
Summer Hill and
Sydenham Sydenham may refer to:
Places Australia
* Sydenham, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
** Sydenham railway station, Sydney
* Sydenham, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
** Sydenham railway line, the name of the Sunbury railway line, Melbourne un ...
; as well as parts of
Annandale,
Camperdown,
Canterbury
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,
Croydon
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,
Lilyfield
Lilyfield is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lilyfield is located 6 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Inner West Council.
Lilyfield is ...
,
Macdonaldtown,
Newtown,
St Peters,
Stanmore
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and
Tempe.
Members
Election results
References
External links
Division of Grayndler – Australian Electoral Commission
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Electoral divisions of Australia
Electoral divisions of Australia in New South Wales
Constituencies established in 1949
1949 establishments in Australia