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2002–03 Redistribution of Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (3239 words) |
 | GortonNew division in the outer northwestern suburbs of Melbourne. |
| The new division of Bonner is a notionally marginal Labor seat (margin 1.9 per cent) but is compensated for by the fact that the division of Bowman changes from a marginal Labor seat (margin 1.4 per cent) to a notionally marginal Coalition seat (margin 3.1 per cent). |
| Division is made notionally slightly less safe for the Liberal Party (margin reduced from 4.2 per cent to 2.6 per cent) with the loss of Liberal-voting polling places to Bonner (Mansfield 60.1 per cent, Mt Petrie 66.8 per cent, Rochedale 69.0 per cent and Wishart 60.2 per cent). |
| Citizens Electoral Council: Information from Answers.com (1153 words) |
| The CEC was originally established as an electoral front for the Australian League of Rights, an extreme right-wing group led by Eric Butler. |
| The CEC also seeks to associate itself with a "bygone tradition" of the Australian Labor Party [1], by which it appears to mean the social democratic and protectionist policies abandoned by the ALP over the past 30 years. |
| Australian Electoral Commission records indicate that the CEC has successfully raised several million dollars since 2001. |
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