Ginninderra like a boss? Electoral redistribution madness. [With Poll]

Anything that wipes out The Greens and loopy independents is fine by me.

If you can’t move the Green ito live in the electorate, then move the electorate to take in the Green.

Tetranitrate said :

Utterly terrible. It would make far more sense to put the whole of Gungahlin into Ginninderra, Move western creek into Brindabella and have Molonglo covering the inner North, Inner South and Woden.
Not sure about the numbers that would bring up, but it would be a lot more logical as far as common interests and whatnot are concerned.

That essentially is what is proposed Tetranite. But the numbers aren’t there yet. So the proposal sets it up so that the continued growth in Gungahlin and Molonglo (the development) will allow the north Canberra suburbs to be put back into the Molonglo electorate probably at the next distribution.

This is about fixing the Molonglo problem (as noted by Random) and setting it up for minimal changes into the future.

The Community Council from Weston made strong representations at the hearing that their natural community of interest is Woden rather than Tuggeranong, which is understandable, and the Committee took note.

Utterly terrible. It would make far more sense to put the whole of Gungahlin into Ginninderra, Move western creek into Brindabella and have Molonglo covering the inner North, Inner South and Woden.
Not sure about the numbers that would bring up, but it would be a lot more logical as far as common interests and whatnot are concerned.

I reckon have each suburb vote in one candidate, then them all in a giant cage, and fight until the required number are left.

No only does it make as much sense as the current and proposed systems, but we could film it and sell the rights, bringing much needed income to the territory.

How about 5 electorates, 4 with 3 members each and 1 with 5 members.

johnboy said :

random said :

If you think the new boundaries are a bad joke, what do you call the current Molonglo electorate?

I would say the old molonglo was whole communities lumped together arbitrarily. Which was not idea, but beats the hell out of eviserating the Inner North for the crime of electing a second green.

These redistributions are supposed to be based on “communities of interest”. Can’t see that happening here!

If a spilt needs to be made, why not split East and West Belconnen. Bruce and Kaleen arguably have more in common with the Inner North than with Dunlop.

random said :

If you think the new boundaries are a bad joke, what do you call the current Molonglo electorate?

I would say the old molonglo was whole communities lumped together arbitrarily. Which was not idea, but beats the hell out of eviserating the Inner North for the crime of electing a second green.

The ABC’s Antony Green sees this as creating an extra Labor seat at the expense of the Greens.