The Division of Kooyong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and encompasses the suburbs of Kew, Hawthorn, Balwyn, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. The Division was named after an Indigenous Australian word meaning "camp" or "resting place", and shares its name with the suburb of Kooyong, Victoria. The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. ... The Australian States and Territories comprise the Commonwealth of Australia under a federal system of government. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3. ... Kew is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. ... For other uses of the name Hawthorn, see Hawthorn (disambiguation). ... Balwyn is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. ... Camberwell (postcode: 3124) is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the local municipality of the City of Boroondara. ... Surrey Hills is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. ... 1900 (MCM) is a common year starting on Monday. ... Edmund Barton, Prime Minister and Protectionist Party leader The Australian legislative election, 1901 was the first federal election held in Australia following the establishment of the Federation of Australia. ... Australian Aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Australia. ... Kooyong is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

Kooyong is currently a fairly safe Liberal seat. The seat is considered to be the cradle of conservative leadership, with Kooyong hosting various figures of notable political stature, including former Prime Minister Robert Menzies, former Leader of the Opposition Andrew Peacock, and former Chief Justice of Australia John Latham. The high-profile Liberal backbencher Petro Georgiou now comfortably holds the seat. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian liberal conservative political party. ... The current (25th) Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard (sitting, fifth from left), with his Cabinet, 1999 The office of Prime Minister is in practice the most powerful political office in the Commonwealth of Australia. ... Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving a total of eighteen and a half years in office from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. ... Link title Headline text Andrew Peacock Andrew Peacock Andrew Peacock Andrew Peacock ALL bout im Andrew Peacock Andrew Peacock The Hon. ... The Chief Justice of Australia is the senior justice of the High Court of Australia and the highest-ranking judicial officer in the Commonwealth of Australia. ... Sir John Latham KBE (born 1877, died 1964), Australian judge and politician, was the fifth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. ... Petro Georgiou Petro Georgiou (born 30 November 1947), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 1994, representing the Division of Kooyong, Victoria. ...

There has been a reduction in the strength of the conservative vote in recent years. In the 1994 by-election for Kooyong, Peter Singer achieved 28.03% for the primary vote as a candidate for the Greens when the ALP did not run a candidate. Prof. ...

The Greens primary vote in Division of Kooyong increased from 10.7% in 2001 to 12.3% in 2004, when Kooyong received the 11th highest Green primary vote of all House of Representative seats in Australia. Peter Campbell ran as the Greens candidate for Kooyong in Victoria, Australia in the 2001 and 2004 federal elections. ...

Kooyong is now held by less of a margin (in 2004 Two Party Preferred LP 59.58% ALP 40.42%) than the seat of Aston (2004 Two Party Preferred LP 63.15% ALP 36.85%) that was classified as a marginal seat in 2001. The Division of Aston is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. ...

Members

• William Knox (Free Trade/Commonwealth Liberal) 1901 — 1910
• Sir Robert Best (Commonwealth Liberal) 1910 — 1922
• Sir John Latham (Commonwealth Liberal/United Australia) 1922 — 1934
• Sir Robert Menzies (United Australia/Liberal) 1934 — 1966
• Andrew Peacock (Liberal) 1966 — 1994
• Petro Georgiou (Liberal) 1994 — present

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External links

• Division of Kooyong. Australian Electoral Commission Divisional Profiles. URL accessed on June 26, 2005. (PDF, 187 kB)

• Kooyong (VIC) By-Election (19 November 1994)