Members
| Image | Member | Party | Term | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ted Peters (1897–1980) | Labor | 10 December 1949 – 10 December 1955 | Transferred to the Division of Scullin after Burke was abolished in 1955 |
| Burke Australian House of Representatives Division | |
|---|---|
| Created | 1949 |
| Abolished | 1955 |
| Namesake | Robert O'Hara Burke |
The Division of Burke was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was named after Robert O'Hara Burke, an explorer who led the Victorian expedition in 1860, the first white explorer to cross Australia from south to north.[ citation needed ] The division was created in 1949 and replaced the similarly located and pronounced division of Bourke. It was located in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, including Brunswick and Fitzroy. [1] It was a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party.[ citation needed ] It was abolished in 1955.[ citation needed ]
| Image | Member | Party | Term | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ted Peters (1897–1980) | Labor | 10 December 1949 – 10 December 1955 | Transferred to the Division of Scullin after Burke was abolished in 1955 |
The Burke and Wills expedition was organised by the Royal Society of Victoria in Australia in 1860–61. It consisted of 19 men led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills. Its objective was the crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres. At that time most of the inland of Australia had not been explored by non-Indigenous people and was largely unknown to the European settlers.
General Sir Richard Bourke, KCB, was an Irish soldier, who served in the British Army and was Governor of New South Wales from 1831 to 1837. As a lifelong Whig (Liberal), he encouraged the emancipation of convicts and helped bring forward the ending of penal transportation to Australia. In this, he faced strong opposition from the landlord establishment and its press. He approved a new settlement on the Yarra River, and named it Melbourne, in honour of the incumbent British prime minister, Lord Melbourne.
The Division of Burke has twice been used as the name of an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. Both were in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, but did not overlap:
Bourke may refer to:
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