DIVISION OF CUNNINGHAM

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The 'Division of Cunningham' is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Allan Cunningham, a 19th century explorer of New South Wales and Queensland. It is located on the coast of New South Wales between southern Sydney and Wollongong, and takes in parts of the city of Wollongong, including Corrimal, Figtree and Unanderra. It has always been won by the Australian Labor Party, except at the 2002 by-election, when it was lost to the Australian Greens, the first time that the Greens had held a seat in the House of Representatives. Labor recovered the seat at the October 2004 election. Its most prominent members have been Rex Connor, a senior minister in the Whitlam government, and Stephen Martin, who was Speaker 1993-96. It covers 490 km² and the main products and means of livelihood in the area are tourism, tertiary education, steel production, coal mining, brick manufacturing, textiles and dairy farming.
Although the region is primarily rural, the vast majority of the population is located in the northern outskirts of Wollongong and along the eastern seaboard.

Contents

Geography

Members

Election results

References

Geography

The Division covers areas east of the a ridge in the Great Dividing Range and is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the east. It is bounded to the north by the Royal National Park and to the south by the Wollongong suburbs of Figtree, Cordeaux Heights and Coniston.

Members

Member		Party	Years
	William Davies	Labor	1949—1956
	Victor Kearney	Labor	1956—1963
	Rex Connor	Labor	1963—1977
	Stewart West	Labor	1977—1993
	Stephen Martin	Labor	1993—2002
	Michael Organ	Greens	2002—2004
	Sharon Bird	Labor	2004—present

Election results

References

★ Psephos: Adam Carr's Election Archive

★ The Poll Bludger

★ ABC Elections

★ Australian Electoral Commission

★ The Australian Political Almanack, , Peter, Wilson, , 2002,