| Ginninderra Australian Capital Territory—Legislative Assembly | |
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| Territory | Australian Capital Territory |
| Created | 1995 |
| Electors | 63,188 (2020) |
| Area | 105 km2 (40.5 sq mi) |
| Coordinates | 35°13′41″S149°2′17″E / 35.22806°S 149.03806°E Coordinates: 35°13′41″S149°2′17″E / 35.22806°S 149.03806°E |
The Ginninderra electorate is one of the five electorates for the unicameral 25-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. It elects five members.
It was created in 1995, when the three-electorate, Hare-Clark electoral system was first introduced for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Prior to 1995, a multi-member single constituency existed for the whole of the ACT. The name "Ginninderra" is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning "sparkling like the stars". It is the name given to the creek that flows through the middle of Belconnen, which was dammed to form Lake Ginninderra, the lake on which the Belconnen Town Centre is sited. [1]
The Ginninderra electorate comprises the southern part of the district of Belconnen, including the suburbs of Aranda, Belconnen, Bruce, Charnwood, Cook, Dunlop, Evatt, Florey, Flynn, Fraser, Hawker, Higgins, Holt, Latham, Lawson, Macgregor, Macnamara, Macquarie, Melba, McKellar, Page, Scullin, Spence, Strathnairn and Weetangera.
Two Belconnen suburbs, Giralang and Kaleen are part of Yerrabi.
From 1995 to 2001 it contained the Canberra districts of Belconnen and Hall. [2] After the 2001 Redistribution the Gungahlin suburb of Nicholls was moved to the electorate. [3] The 2008 Redistribution made no changes to the boundaries of the electorate. [4]
In the 2012 Redistribution the Gungahlin suburbs of Crace and Palmerston were moved from Molonglo into Ginninderra. [5]
In the 2016 redistribution, all three Gungahlin suburbs, the village of Hall, and the Belconnen suburbs of Evatt, Giralang, Kaleen, Lawson and McKellar were transferred into the new Yerrabi electorate. [6] At the 2020 redistribution, the suburbs of Evatt, Lawson and McKellar were transferred back into Ginninderra. [7]
| Year | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | |||||
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| 1995 | Roberta McRae | Labor | Wayne Berry | Labor | Lucy Horodny | Greens | Harold Hird | Liberal | Bill Stefaniak | Liberal | |||||
| 1998 | Jon Stanhope | Labor | Dave Rugendyke | Independent | |||||||||||
| 2001 | Roslyn Dundas | Democrats | Vicki Dunne | Liberal | |||||||||||
| 2004 | Mary Porter | Labor | |||||||||||||
| 2008 | Meredith Hunter | Greens | Alistair Coe | Liberal | |||||||||||
| 20111 | Chris Bourke | Labor | |||||||||||||
| 2012 | Yvette Berry | Labor | |||||||||||||
| 20162 | Jayson Hinder | Labor | |||||||||||||
| 2016 | Tara Cheyne | Labor | Gordon Ramsay | Labor | Elizabeth Kikkert | Liberal | |||||||||
| 2020 | Jo Clay | Greens | Peter Cain | Liberal | |||||||||||
The District of Belconnen is one of the original eighteen districts of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), used in land administration. The district is subdivided into 27 divisions (suburbs), sections and blocks. The district of Belconnen is largely composed of Canberra suburbs.
The Division of Fenner is an Australian Electoral Division in the Australian Capital Territory and the Jervis Bay Territory. As of the 2018 redistribution, it includes Gungahlin and the part of Belconnen north of Belconnen Way and west of Eastern Valley Way, Aikman Drive and William Slim Drive. It also includes the Jervis Bay Territory.
The Division of Canberra is an Australian electoral division in the Australian Capital Territory. It is named for the city of Canberra, Australia's national capital, and includes all of central Canberra, Kowen, Majura, as well as part of Weston Creek, Woden Valley, Molonglo Valley, Belconnen, and Jerrabomberra. It is currently held by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party.
Lake Ginninderra is an artificial lake located on the Ginninderra Creek in Canberra. It is adjacent to the Belconnen Town Centre. The lake was constructed in 1974 to collect stormwater discharge from a 98.8 square kilometres (38.1 sq mi) catchment that includes the surrounding suburbs of Aranda, Macquarie, Cook, Bruce, Belconnen, McKellar, Giralang, Kaleen in the eastern areas of Belconnen.
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Emu Ridge is a housing estate in the suburb of Belconnen, located in the district of Belconnen, in Canberra, within the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) of Australia. Emu Ridge is bounded by Benjamin Way, College Street, Eastern Valley Way and Belconnen Way; Hennessy Street and Condell Street are the two main thoroughfares, with many cul-de-sacs off these.
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The 2024 Australian Capital Territory general election will be held in October 2024 to elect all 25 members of the unicameral ACT Legislative Assembly.
