The Division of Denison was an
Australian electoral division in
Tasmania
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, before being replaced by the
Division of Clark as part of a 2016–17 redistribution.
History
The division was one of the five established when the former
Division of Tasmania
The Division of Tasmania was an Australian electoral division covering Tasmania. The five-member statewide seat existed from the inaugural 1901 election until the 1903 election. Each elector cast one vote. Unlike most of the other states, Ta ...
was redistributed on 2 October 1903 and is named for
Sir William Denison, who was
Lieutenant Governor
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of
Van Diemen's Land
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1847–55. It was located in central
Hobart
Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/ Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...
on the western shore of the
River Derwent. As at the 2016 election (the last election before being replaced by Clark), it incorporated the area covered by the
Cities of Hobart and
Glenorchy, together with the northern parts of
Kingborough Council, including
Taroona
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, generally north of the
Huon Highway
The Huon Highway is an highway in southern Tasmania, Australia. The highway forms part of the A6 and connects Hobart with the southern parts of Tasmania. The original Huon Highway (now known as Huon Road) was a twisty two-lane road skirting ...
.
kunanyi / Mount Wellington
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was a prominent physical feature in the division's west.
Denison was a consistently marginal seat, but was held by the
Australian Labor Party
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between
1987
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and 2010 with little difficulty. Its most prominent members were Sir
Philip Fysh
Sir Philip Oakley Fysh (1 March 1835 – 20 December 1919) was an English-born Australian politician. He arrived in Tasmania in 1859 and became a leading merchant in Hobart. He served two terms as premier of Tasmania (1877–1878, 1887–1892) ...
, a member of the first federal Cabinet;
Athol Townley
Athol Gordon Townley (3 October 190524 December 1963) was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1949 until his death in 1963. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as a minister in the Menzies Government fr ...
,
Minister for Defence
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in the
Menzies Government; and
Duncan Kerr
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Kerr was previously a pol ...
, a minister in the
Keating,
Rudd
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and
Gillard governments. Townley resigned in 1964 when he was named
Ambassador to the United States
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See also
*Ambassadors of the United States
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, but he died before taking up the appointment. Another prominent member was
independent
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Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups
* Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s
* Independe ...
MP
Andrew Wilkie, elected at the
2010 election. Denison has had 16 different members, the second highest (together with
Bendigo
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As of 2019, Bendigo had an urban populat ...
and
Swan
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, and after
Bass's 17) of any federal electorate.
Members
Election results
References
External links
Division of Denison – Australian Electoral Commission
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Former electoral divisions of Australia
Constituencies established in 1903
Constituencies disestablished in 2019
1903 establishments in Australia
Southern Tasmania
Denison (federal)