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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Scullin, Victoria
Northern Melbourne: Epping, Lalor, Mill Park, Thomastown
Sitting member: Andrew Giles (Labor), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 110,539
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 14.3%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Andrew Giles
Australian Labor Party |
2. John Matlan
Animal Justice Party |
3. Melanie Stockman
Liberal Party |
4. Rose Ljubicic
Australian Greens |
5. Adriana Buccianti
Drug Law Reform |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Scullin was created in 1969, when the old seat of Darebin in the northern working-class suburbs of Melbourne was renamed (there was an earlier
seat of Scullin in a different part of Melbourne). The seat was originally based on Preston and Reservoir, but successive redistribution have
pushed it northwards so that now it contains none of its 1969 territory. It is still a working-class seat, with a high proportion of its workforce
engaged in manufacturing, and also a high proportion born in non English speaking countries. It is thus a low- income mortgage belt seat, with a
high level of young families with dependent children and dwellings being purchased in new suburbs such as Epping, Lalor and Mill Park.
Scullin has always been a safe Labor seat, and was represented by the Jenkins family for 44 years. Dr Harry Jenkins was Speaker of the House during
the first Hawke government. His son Harry Jenkins was Speaker in the Rudd-Gillard Government. These are the only father- and-son Speakers in the
Parliament's history. In 2012 Jenkins was told to resign as Speaker so the government could instal the renegade Liberal Peter Slipper. He retired
in understandable disgust in 2013.
Andrew Giles, Labor MP for Scullin since 2013, was a lawyer with Slater and Gordon before his election, and has also worked as an adviser to state
ministers. Like Jenkins, he is a member of the Left faction of the Victorian ALP. This is a very safe Labor seat, and the Liberal candidate, Melanie
Stockman, was not named until early June. According to the Liberal website, she has "a background in marketing, management and health care."
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