Makin Australian House of Representatives Division
Map
Interactive map of boundaries
Created
1984
MP
Tony Zappia
Party
Labor
Namesake
Norman Makin
Electors
123,243 (2022)
Area
130 km2 (50.2 sq mi)
Demographic
Outer metropolitan
The Division of Makin is an electoral division for the Australian House of Representatives located in the northeastern suburbs of Adelaide. The 130 km2 seat covers an area from Little Para River and Gould Creek in the north-east to Grand Junction Road in the south and Port Wakefield Road in the west, including the suburbs of Banksia Park, Fairview Park, Golden Grove, Greenwith, Gulfview Heights, Ingle Farm, Mawson Lakes, Modbury, Para Hills, Para Vista, Pooraka, Redwood Park, Ridgehaven, Salisbury East, Salisbury Heights, St Agnes, Surrey Downs, Tea Tree Gully, Valley View, Vista, Walkley Heights, Wynn Vale, Yatala Vale, and parts of Gepps Cross and Hope Valley.
The DivisionofMakin is an electoral division for the Australian House of Representatives located in the northeastern suburbs of Adelaide. The 130 km2...
The Battle ofMakin was an engagement of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought from 20 to 24 November 1943 on Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands...
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list of electoral results for the DivisionofMakin in Australian federal elections from the division's creation in 1984 until the present. Makin, SA,...
The Raid on Makin Island (17–18 August 1942) was an attack by the United States Marine Corps Raiders on Japanese military forces on Makin Island (now...
neighbouring Divisionof Sturt, and was thus a natural choice for Sturt's Labor incumbent, Norman Makin, to transfer in 1955. Besides Makin, its most notable...
The DivisionofMakin in South Australia was a bellwether division from 1984 to 2010, although ceased its bellwether record in 2013, when Makin stayed...
Xenophon, his donor and the Timor tie-up". The Australian. 24 May 2016. "Divisions | South Australia". results.aec.gov.au. Australian Electoral Commission...
Mayor of the City of Playford Trish Draper, former Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the DivisionofMakin Iain Evans...
Makin AO (31 March 1889 – 20 July 1982) was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of...
Christopher Gregory Makin (born 8 May 1973) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a defender. He played in the Premier League for...
volatility of present-day Hindmarsh. Not a bellwether electorate however, ABC psephologist Antony Green listed the nearby DivisionofMakin as one of eleven...
that included the seizures of Tarawa and Makin, during the Battle of Tarawa on 20–23 November 1943 and the Battle ofMakin on 20–24 November 1943. Operation...
was acting as the flagship of Carrier Division 24, which was supporting operations on Makin. She quickly sank with the loss of 702 officers and sailors...
Upon the resignation of incumbent Trish Draper, Day was preselected as the candidate in the DivisionofMakin for the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2007...
Infantry Division (formerly served in 2nd Raider Battalion) Walter Wanger's 1943 film Gung Ho! is a depiction of the 2nd Raider Battalion's raid on Makin Island...
to define America's special operations forces. He is renowned for the "Makin Island raid" in 1942, and his raiders' "Long Patrol" (aka Carlson's patrol)...