South Barwon is an electoral district of the
Legislative AssemblyThe Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria in Australia. Together with the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house, it sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Melbourne.-History:...
in the
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n state of
VictoriaVictoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
. Located in a mixed urban and rural area south of the
Barwon RiverThe Barwon River rises in the Otway Ranges of Victoria, Australia, runs through Winchelsea and the city of Geelong, where it is joined by the Moorabool River, and enters the sea at Barwon Heads after passing through Lake Connewarre on the Bellarine Peninsula...
, it covers an area of 621km², including the Geelong suburbs of
BelmontBelmont is a southern suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The name means "beautiful hill". Belmont is geographically separated from the Geelong central business district by the Barwon River. The suburb is primarily residential, with some light industry along Barwon Heads Road...
and
GrovedaleGrovedale is a mainly residential southern suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.The suburb is bounded by the Waurn Ponds Creek, Rossack Drive, Boundary Road and Barwarre Road.-Toponomy:...
,
Waurn PondsWaurn Ponds is a mainly residential southern suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.The suburb is bounded by Rossack Drive, Princes Highway, the Geelong to Warnambool railway, Reservoir Road, Draytons Road, Pigdons Road, Deakin University and Honeys Road....
and part of
HightonHighton is a residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is bordered by the Barrabool Hills and Wandana Heights to the west, the Barwon River to the north and east, the former Kardinia Creek to the south-east, and the Princes Highway and Pigdons Road to the south.-History:Grazier John...
, the coastal centres of
TorquayTorquay is a township in Victoria, Australia, which faces Bass Strait, 21 km. south of Geelong and is the gateway to the Great Ocean Road. It is bordered on the west by Spring Creek and its coastal features include Point Danger and Zeally Bay...
and
Barwon HeadsBarwon Heads is a coastal township on the Bellarine Peninsula, near Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is situated on the west bank of the mouth of the Barwon River below Lake Connewarre, while it is bounded to the west by farmland, golf courses and the ephemeral saline wetland Murtnaghurt...
, and the rural towns of Barrabool,
BellbraeBellbrae is a bounded rural locality in Victoria, Australia located on the Great Ocean Road between Torquay and Anglesea. At the 2006 census, Bellbrae had a population of 1,388.-History:...
,
ConnewarreConnewarre, Victoria, Australia, is located in southern Australia in an area that is sparsely populated. At the 2006 census, Connewarre and the surrounding area had a population of 78....
, Gnarwarre, Modewarre,
MoriacMoriac is a rural town in Victoria, Australia, located approximately west of Geelong. It forms part of the Surf Coast Shire. At the 2006 census, Moriac had a population of 594....
and Mount Moriac. The electorate had a population of 52,241 as of the 2001 census.
South Barwon was created in 1976 as a predominantly rural seat which was considered safe for the conservative
Liberal Party of AustraliaThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
. It was won by Liberal Aurel Smith, formerly the member for
BellarineThe Electoral district of Bellarine is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The electorate contains some of the eastern suburbs of Geelong and much of the Bellarine Peninsula after which the electorate is named....
, upon its inception, and retained for the party by
Harley DickinsonHarley Rivers Dickinson was an Australian politician.Dickinson was born in Richmond in Melbourne to Rivers Arthur Dickinson, a solicitor, and Dolina Marion Arbuckle. He attended Croydon State School and then Geelong College, and also graduated from the Australian School of Pacific Administration...
upon Smith's retirement in 1982. Dickinson held the seat until 1992, when he quit the party and attempted to retain the seat as an independent, but lost to endorsed Liberal candidate and former television newsreader
Alister PatersonAlister Irvine Paterson is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for South Barwon in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2002.Paterson was born in Melbourne to John Austin Paterson and Marjorie Webber Ball...
. The seat underwent significant demographic change during Paterson's tenure, with major population growth in the traditionally Labor-voting areas of Torquay, Barwon Heads and southern Geelong, causing the seat to become progressively less safe for the Liberal Party. These changes came to a head at the 2002 election, when Labor nominated former Geelong mayor
Michael CrutchfieldMichael Crutchfield is an Australian politician. He was formerly the member for South Barwon in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...
as its candidate, and amidst a statewide landslide victory, succeeded in taking South Barwon for the first time in its history. Crutchfield was re-elected in 2006, but lost in 2010 to local councillor and Liberal candidate
Andrew KatosAndrew Katos is an Australian politician, and has been the member for South Barwon in the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2010.-References:...
.
Members for South Barwon
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Aurel Smith |
LiberalThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
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1976–1982 |
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Harley Dickinson Harley Rivers Dickinson was an Australian politician.Dickinson was born in Richmond in Melbourne to Rivers Arthur Dickinson, a solicitor, and Dolina Marion Arbuckle. He attended Croydon State School and then Geelong College, and also graduated from the Australian School of Pacific Administration...
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LiberalThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
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1982–1992 |
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Independent In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
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1992–1992 |
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Alister Paterson Alister Irvine Paterson is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for South Barwon in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2002.Paterson was born in Melbourne to John Austin Paterson and Marjorie Webber Ball...
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LiberalThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
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1992–2002 |
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Michael Crutchfield Michael Crutchfield is an Australian politician. He was formerly the member for South Barwon in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...
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LaborThe Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
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2002–2010 |
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Andrew Katos Andrew Katos is an Australian politician, and has been the member for South Barwon in the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2010.-References:...
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LiberalThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
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2010–present |
Election results