Gwoja is an electoral division of the

Northern Territory Legislative Assembly The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory is the unicameral legislature of the Northern Territory of Australia. The Legislative Assembly has 25 members, each elected in single-member electorates for four-year terms. The voting method fo ...

in Australia. It was created in a 2019 redistribution for the 2020 general election, replacing the

electoral division of Stuart Stuart was an electoral divisions of the Northern Territory, electoral division of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. Named after Scotland, Scottish explorer John McDouall Stuart, ...

. The division is named after

Gwoya Tjungurrayi Gwoya Tjungurrayi (c. 1895 – 28 March 1965), also spelt Gwoya Jungarai, Gwoya Djungarai and Gwoja Tjungarrayi, was a Walpiri-Anmatyerre man of the Northern Territory of Australia. Also known by his nickname One Pound Jimmy, he became the fir ...

, a Walpiri-

Anmatyerre The Anmatyerr, also spelt Anmatyerre, Anmatjera, Anmatjirra, Amatjere and other variations) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory, who speak one of the Upper Arrernte languages. Language Anmatyerr is divided into Easte ...

man who survived the

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in 1928, and was depicted on an Australian

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. His likeness was also the inspiration for the

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depicted on the reverse of the

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. When the seat was first contested in

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, the seat was won by incumbent Namatjira

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MLA

Chansey Paech Chanston James "Chansey" Paech (pronounced "CHAN-see PAKE"; born 1987) is an Australian politician. He is a Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 2016, representing the electorate of Namatjira until 2020 and E ...

, who transferred here after his seat was made a notional CLP seat in a redistribution.

Members for Gwoja

Election results

References

External links

Division Profile: Division of Gwoja
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