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).
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.
AustralianElectoral Commission records indicate that the CEC has successfully raised several million dollars since 2001.
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