| Sydney Australian House of Representatives Division |
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 Division of Sydney (green) in New South Wales (Lord Howe Island not illustrated) |
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| Created: | 1969 |
| MP: | Tanya Plibersek |
| Party: | Labor |
| Namesake: | Sydney |
| Area: | 91 km² (35 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Inner Metropolitan |
The Division of Sydney is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located around the central city area of Sydney, and includes many inner suburbs such as Darlinghurst, Surry Hills, Ultimo, Redfern, Camperdown, Glebe, Annandale, Balmain, Potts Point and the Sydney central business district itself. The Division also incorporates all the waters of Port Jackson, except for Middle Harbour and North Harbour. It also covers Lord Howe Island.
The Division was named for the city of Sydney, which itself was named after former British Home Secretary Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. The Division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 21 November 1968, replacing the old Division of East Sydney and Division of West Sydney, and was first contested at the 1969 election. The seat is a very safe Labor seat, although the seat had the highest amount of Green votes in any federal electorate in the 2004 election. The seat of Melbourne topped Sydney for the highest Green vote at the 2007 election.
According to the 2001 census, the electorate has by far the highest number of same-sex couples in Australia (2265).[1]
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Members [link]
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Cope | Labor | 1969–1975 | |
| Leslie McMahon | Labor | 1975–1983 | |
| Peter Baldwin | Labor | 1983–1998 | |
| Tanya Plibersek | Labor | 1998–present | |
Election results [link]
| Australian federal election, 2010: Sydney | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Tanya Plibersek | 34,362 | 43.29 | -5.92 | |
| Liberal | Gordon Weiss | 22,307 | 28.10 | +1.20 | |
| Greens | Tony Hickey | 18,852 | 23.75 | +3.44 | |
| Democrats | Brett Paterson | 1,256 | 1.58 | +0.48 | |
| Independent | Jane Ward | 1,226 | 1.54 | +0.30 | |
| Secular | Christopher Owen | 718 | 0.90 | +0.90 | |
| Communist | Denis Doherty | 656 | 0.83 | +0.83 | |
| Total formal votes | 79,377 | 94.50 | -1.32 | ||
| Informal votes | 4,620 | 5.50 | +1.32 | ||
| Turnout | 83,997 | 88.16 | -3.65 | ||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Tanya Plibersek | 53,235 | 67.07 | -2.25 | |
| Liberal | Gordon Weiss | 26,142 | 32.93 | +2.25 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -2.25 | |||
Notes [link]
- ^ "Same-sex couples by Commonwealth Electoral Division" (PDF). Australian Parliament House Library. https://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2003-04/04rn61.pdf. Retrieved 24 October 2006. (PDF)
References [link]
https://wn.com/Division_of_Sydney
Sydney
Sydney /ˈsɪdni/ is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds the world's largest natural harbour, and sprawls towards the Blue Mountains to the west. Residents of Sydney are known as "Sydneysiders". Sydney is the second official seat and second official residence of the Governor-General of Australia, the Prime Minister of Australia and the Cabinet of Australia.
The Sydney area has been inhabited by indigenous Australians since the Upper Paleolithic period. The first British settlers arrived in 1788 to found Sydney as a penal colony, the first European settlement in Australia. Since convict transportation ended in the mid-19th century, the city has transformed from a colonial outpost into a major global cultural and economic centre.
The population of Sydney at the time of the 2011 census was 4.39 million, 1.5 million of which were born overseas, representing many different nationalities and making Sydney one of the most multicultural cities in the world. There are more than 250 different languages spoken in Sydney and about one-third of residents speak a language other than English at home.
.au
.au is the internet country code for Australia.
History
The domain name was originally allocated by Jon Postel, operator of IANA to Kevin Robert Elz of Melbourne University in 1986. After an approximately five-year process in the 1990s, the Internet industry created a self-regulatory body called .au Domain Administration to operate the domain. It obtained assent from ICANN in 2001, and commenced operating a new competitive regime for domain registration on 1 July 2002. Since this new regime, any registration has to be ordered via a registrar.
Operation
Oversight of .au is by .au Domain Administration (auDA). It is a not-for-profit organisation whose membership is derived from Internet organisations, industry members and interested individuals. The organisation operates under the consent of the Australian government which has legislative power to decide the operators of electronic addressing in the country.
Policy for .au is devised by policy development panels. These panels are convened by auDA and combine public input with industry representation to derive policy.
Sydney (TV series)
Sydney is an American situation comedy series that aired on CBS in 1990. It was created and written by Michael J. Wilson and Douglas Wyman and starred Valerie Bertinelli, Matthew Perry and Craig Bierko.
Synopsis
Sydney Kells (Valerie Bertinelli), the daughter of a now-deceased policeman, brings her New York City detective agency (in which she is the only investigator) back to her hometown and her family, including her over-protective brother Billy (Matthew Perry), himself a rookie cop. As she struggles to balance her personal and professional life, the main source of her work comes from an uptight lawyer (Craig Bierko), with whom she shares sexual chemistry. She and her best friend Jill (Rebeccah Bush) frequent a neighborhood bar run by Ray (Barney Martin), her father's old police partner.
