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ASTON
Federal House of Representatives
The information on this page was obtained from Australian Electoral Commission publications and the Australian Bureau of Statistics and was correct at February 2008.
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Electoral Commission) 2001 The Data (Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries 2004) has been used in the electoral map with the permission of the Australian Electoral Commission. The Australian Electoral Commission has not evaluated the Data as altered and incorporated within the electoral map, and therefore gives no warranty regarding its accuracy, completeness, currency or suitability for any particular purpose. Limited End-user licence provided by the Australian Electoral Commission: You may use the electoral map to load, display, print and reproduce views obtained from the Data, retaining this notice, for your personal use, or use within your organisation only.
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| Current Member
| Chris PEARCE |
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| Current Party
| Liberal Party |
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| Description
| Outer Metropolitan |
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| Location
| Aston covers an area from Bayswater in the north to Rowville in the south, from Ferntree Gully in the east to Vermont South in the west. The suburbs of Bayswater (part), Boronia (part), Ferntree Gully (part), Forest Hill (part), Knoxfield, Lysterfield (part), Mountain Gate (part), Rowville, Scoresby, Studfield, Vermont (part), Vermont South, Wantirna and Wantirna South are in this division. |
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| Origin
| Named after Tilly Aston(1873-1947), blind writer and teacher, who helped found the Library of the Victorian Association of Braille Writersin 1894 (renamed the 'Braille and Talking Book Library' in the 1950s). The division of Aston was first proclaimed in 1984 |
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| Products/Industries
| Market gardens, orchards, light industry, food manufacturing and chemical production. |
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| State
| VIC |
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| Area
| 96 sq kms (approx) |
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| Population
| 129,450 as at 2006 |
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| Enrolled Electors
| 91,951 as at 30/11/07 |
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