Division Profile

Division Name

ISAACS

State

Victoria

Elected Member

Dreyfus, M (ALP) 2007-

Name Derivation

Named after Sir Isaac Isaacs 1855-1948, Member of the House of Representatives 1901-06, Chief Justice of the High Court 1930 and Governor-General of Australia 1931-36.

First Proclaimed / Election

1948/1949

Area

166 sq. kms

Demographic

Outer Metropolitan

Pre-Election Seat Status

Safe

Seat Status

Marginal

Enrolment

97,897

Turnout

93.04%

Informal

4.80%

Location

The Division of Isaacs is located in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs. It covers an area of approximately 166 sq km on the eastern side of Port Phillip Bay from Mentone to Carrum then inland to Skye and up to Noble Park. The main suburbs include Aspendale, Aspendale Gardens, Bonbeach, Braeside, Carrum, Carrum Downs (part), Chelsea, Chelsea Heights, Dandenong South, Edithvale, Keysborough, Lyndhurst (part), Mentone (part), Mordialloc, Noble Park (part), Parkdale, Patterson Lakes, Skye (part) and Waterways.

Products and Industry

Light manufacturing especially around Braeside.

Members

Dreyfus, M (ALP) 2007-

Corcoran, A (ALP) 2000-2007

Wilton, G S (ALP) 1996-2000

Atkinson, R A (LP) 1990-1996

Charles, D E (ALP) 1980-1990

Burns, W G (LP) 1977-1980

Hamer, D J (LP) 1975-1977

Clayton, G (ALP) 1974-1975

Hamer, D J (LP) 1969-1974

Haworth, W C (LP) 1949-1969

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