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The Division of Lingiari is an Australian electoral division in the
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that covers the entirety of the territory outside of the
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, which covers Darwin and surrounding areas. The division also includes the
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and
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. Lingiari includes all of the Northern Territory's remote
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communities, most of whom vote when visited by mobile polling teams during the election campaign. The current MP is
Marion Scrymgour Marion Rose Scrymgour (born 13 September 1960) is an Australian politician and the current MP for Lingiari. She was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2012, representing the electorate of Arafura. She was th ...
, a member of the
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. Scrymgour herself is Indigenous and inherited Tiwi identity from her mother.


Geography

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. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state or territory, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state or territory's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state or territory are malapportioned.


History

The division was named after prominent Aboriginal rights activist
Vincent Lingiari Vincent Lingiari (13 June 1908 or 1919 – 21 January 1988) was an Australian Aboriginal rights activist and member of the Gurindji people. In his early life he started as a stockman at Wave Hill Station, where the Aboriginal workers were g ...
AM (1908–1988), who was a member of the
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nation. Other divisions named after Aboriginal Australians are
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in
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, Blair and Bonner in
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, and
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and Nicholls in Victoria. The division was one of the two established when the former
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was redistributed on 21 December 2000. It covers almost the entire Territory—except for the area around Darwin, which is covered by the
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—an area of . It is the second largest electorate in terms of area in Australia, the largest being the
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in
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. The division also includes the
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and
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. From its formation until the
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, it had been held by
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of the
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, who transferred there after the Division of Northern Territory was abolished. At the time of the 2004 election, there were 58,205 people enrolled to
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in Lingiari, making it one of the least populous divisions in Australia. Lingiari has the largest Indigenous population in Australia; as of the 2013 election, 42.7 percent of the population was Indigenous.


Members


Election results


References


External links


Division of Lingiari - Australian Electoral Commission
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lingiari, Division of Electoral divisions of Australia Constituencies established in 2000 2000 establishments in Australia