Hammond is a single-member
electoral district
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for the
South Australian House of Assembly
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Overview
The House of Assembly was creat ...
. It is named after
Ruby Hammond
Ruby Florence Hammond (1936 - 16 April 1993) was an Australian Indigenous rights campaigner and the first Indigenous South Australian to seek election to the Federal Parliament.
Hammond was born in 1936 in Blackford, an independent Aborigin ...
, the first indigenous woman to stand for the
Federal Parliament
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. Hammond is a rural electorate east and south-east of Adelaide, covering in the east and upper south-east of the state, and takes in the towns of
Callington
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Callington parish had a population of 4,783 in 2001, according to the 2001 census. This had inc ...
,
Cambrai
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,
Coomandook
Coomandook is a settlement about east-south-east of Adelaide on Dukes Highway in South Australia
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,
Karoonda,
Langhorne Creek,
Mannum
Mannum is a historic town on the west bank of the Murray River in South Australia, east of Adelaide. At the 2016 census, the urban area of Mannum had a population of 2,398. Mannum is the seat of the Mid Murray Council, and is situated in the ...
,
Nildottie
Nildottie is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east side of the Murray River about east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-east of the municipal seat in Mannum.
Nildottie's boundaries were crea ...
,
Peake,
Pinnaroo,
Purnong
Purnong or Purnong Landing is the location of a cable ferry across the Murray River upstream of Mannum. The town is on the cliffs above the left (eastern) bank of the river. It is by road from Mannum on the west side of the Murray, and on the e ...
and
Tailem Bend
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.
Hammond was created in the 1994 redistribution as a replacement for the
electoral district of Ridley
The Electoral district of Ridley was an electoral district of the South Australian House of Assembly, existing between 1938 and 1970 and between 1993 and 1997.
Named after John Ridley, the inventor of a successful threshing machine, Ridley was ...
, and was first contested at the
1997 election. As it covers a largely conservative rural area, it was easily won by maverick
Liberal
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Arts, entertainment and m ...
member
Peter Lewis, the former member for Ridley. Lewis briefly and unsuccessfully tried to have the electorate renamed in 1998 on the basis that Ruby Hammond had few ties to the electorate, proposing the revival of the name
Murray-Mallee (which had covered most of Hammond's territory from 1985 to 1993), or if a ceremonial name was required, Unaipon, in honour of indigenous writer, preacher and inventor
David Unaipon
David Ngunaitponi (28 September 1872 – 7 February 1967), known as David Unaipon, was an Aboriginal Australian man of the Ngarrindjeri people. He was a preacher, inventor and author. Unaipon's contribution to Australian society helped to bre ...
. Lewis was expelled from the Liberal Party in 2000, and successfully recontested the electorate as an independent at the
2002 election, depriving the Liberals of what would have been a safe seat. Lewis backed
Labor
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to form government and was named as
Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly
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in return for his support.
Lewis attempted unsuccessfully to shift to the Legislative Council when it became clear that he had little-to-no chance of retaining the electorate at the
2006 election. Liberal
Adrian Pederick reclaimed the seat for the Liberals at that election, picking up a swing large enough to revert Hammond to its traditional status as a comfortably safe Liberal seat. Pederick has held the seat without serious difficulty since then. In 2022, the seat became marginal with Pederick only holding it with a 5% margin.
Members for Hammond
Election results
Notes
References
ECSA profile for Hammond: 2018ABC profile for Hammond: 2018
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1997 establishments in Australia
Electoral districts of South Australia