Location of Bundoora (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State
Victoria
Created
1976
MP
Colin Brooks
Party
Labor
Namesake
Suburb of Bundoora
Electors
40,892 (2018)
Area
35 km2 (13.5 sq mi)
Demographic
Metropolitan
Bundoora is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of 35 square kilometres (14 sq mi) in north-eastern Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Bundoora, Kingsbury, Watsonia and Watsonia North, and parts of Greensborough, Macleod, Mill Park and Yallambie. It also includes the central campus of La Trobe University. It lies within the North-Eastern Metropolitan Region of the upper house, the Legislative Council.[1]
Bundoora has been a safe seat for the Labor Party throughout its history. It was first contested in 1976, and was won by John Cain, son of former premier John Cain. He rapidly rose through the parliamentary ranks to become Labor leader in 1981 and premier himself in 1982. Cain was comfortably re-elected throughout the 1980s, resigned as premier in 1990, and retired as member for Bundoora at the 1992 election.[2]
Cain was succeeded by Sherryl Garbutt, formerly the member for the abolished Greensborough. Garbutt served as a shadow minister in opposition from 1993 to 1999, and after Labor regained government at the 1999 election served as a minister in the first two terms of the Bracks government. She respectively served as Minister for Women's Affairs (1999-2002), Minister for Environment and Conservation (1999-2002) and Minister for Community Services (2002-2006), before retiring at the 2006 election.[3]
Following Garbutt's retirement announcement in 2005, Minister for Sport and Recreation and Minister for the Commonwealth Games Justin Madden, who held a seat in the Legislative Council, initially sought and won preselection for Bundoora.[4] However, in October 2006, the month before the 2006 state election, the sudden retirement of Northcote MP Mary Delahunty resulted in a three-way deal that saw Fiona Richardson nominate for Northcote instead of the Legislative Council, Madden take Richardson's former place on the Legislative Council ticket, and former City of Banyule mayor Colin Brooks stand in Bundoora.[5] Brooks had earlier challenged Madden for Bundoora preselection, but had withdrawn his nomination.[6] Brooks won the seat, and was easily re-elected in 2010 and 2014.[7]
^"Bundoora District". Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
^"John Cain (junior)". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
^"Sherryl Maree Garbutt". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
^Birch, Natalie (8 March 2006). "Path clear for Madden". Diamond Valley Leader.
^Murphy, Mathew (7 October 2006). "Minister to move in ALP shuffle". The Age.
^Murphy, Mathew; Austin, Paul (28 February 2006). "Rebels back down over preselections". The Age.
^"Victorian Election 2014 - Bundoora". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
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