The Division of Port Adelaide is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of South Australia. It is located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, covering the area around the Barker Inlet, part of the Gulf Saint Vincent. It includes the suburbs of Findon, Hendon, Exeter, North Haven, Wingfield, Salisbury, Buckland Park and Port Adelaide itself. Maps of electoral Divisions The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member constituencies called Divisions. ... The Australian states and territories comprise the Commonwealth of Australia under a federal system of government. ... Motto: United for the Common Wealth Nickname: Festival State Other Australian states and territories Capital Adelaide Government Governor Premier Const. ... Adelaide is the capital city of the Australian state of South Australia. ... Gulf St. ... Port Adelaide (34°50′ S 138°30′ E) is a suburb of Adelaide that lies about 14 kilometres Northwest of the Adelaide Central Business District. ...
The Division was named after the suburb of Port Adelaide, the working port of Adelaide. It was proclaimed at the redistribution of May 11, 1949, and was first contested at the 1949 Federal election. The seat is currently a safe Labor seat. May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...
1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rod Sawford Rodney Weston Sawford (born 26 June 1944), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1988, representing the Division of Port Adelaide, South Australia. ...
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"Division of Port Adelaide". Australian Electoral Commission Divisional Profiles. URL accessed on July 5, 2005. (PDF, 179 kB)
Port's tally of 104 points was the highest ever in a premiership-deciding match, but the record lasted only a year as in the 1929 challenge final Norwood booted 16.14 (110) to overcome the Magpies, who totalled 10.9 (69), by 41 points.
Consequently, Port was forced to re-advertise its vacancy, plumping in the end, to the astonishment of many observers, for a man with only 54 games of league football under his belt, Foster Williams of West Adelaide.
Fos Williams actually left Port at the end of the 1958 season, handing the coaching reins over to Geof Motley, but it would be extremely difficult to attribute the club's 1959 premiership success to anything other than the residual effects of the Williams influence.
PortAdelaide participated, beating Footscray by 34 points, and losing to North Melbourne by 50 points, but the match results were really of secondary importance.
That PortAdelaide ultimately survived was attributable both to hard work and good business sense, with the latter being unequivocally derived from a somewhat rueful recognition that, in the new order of things, the SANFL and its constituent clubs had undergone a significant decline in status.
Over the years, PortAdelaide and the people associated with it have positively thrived on the antagonism and detestation of other clubs and their supporters, and during the first half of the 1990s, with such feelings at an all time high, the Magpies were in their element.
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