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Anna Burke (ALP) since 1998. She has been Speaker of the House of Representatives since the resignation of Peter Slipper.
Loses the rest of Waverley to Bruce and Mont Albert North to Kooyong while gaining around 17,000 voters in Blackburn, Box Hill and Burwood East from Deakin. The Labor margin slips from 6.1% to an estimated 5.8%.
Chisholm was created on the expansion of the Parliament in 1949 and first contested at that year's election. It is named after Caroline Chisholm (1808-77), an early social worker and advocate for migration to Australia. Chisholm appeared on the original paper $5 notes.
Chisholm was Liberal held from 1949 until 1983, with long-term serving members in Wilfred Kent Hughes 1949-1970 and Tony Staley 1970-1980. The seat was won by Labor's Helen Mayer in 1983, but she was defeated by Dr Michael Wooldridge at the 1987 election, one of only two seats gained by the Coalition at John Howard's first election as Leader. Since 1983 Chisholm has been a marginal electorate that needs constant constituency work. Given the difficult nature of his Health portfolio, it is therefore not surprising that Michael Wooldridge chose to leave Chisholm at the 1998 election and contest the safer seat of Casey.
Labor's Anna Burke won Chisholm at the 1998 election and has retained it at each election since, even managing to take the seat out of the marginal category on the election of the Rudd government in 2007.
Chisholm has the nation's third highest proportion of residents aged 15-24 (16.9%), and in a related statistic, the fourth highest proportion of university students (163.2%). Chisholm rates third amongst Victoria seats for residents born in a non-English speaking country (35.2%), the nation's twelfth rated electorate overall.
Chisholm was a classic swinging seat in the 1980s, but gained a stronger base of Labor vote when extended further south by the redistribution ahead of the 1996 election. Since it was won by Anna Burke in 1998, the Labor vote in Chisholm has tended to be higher than for Victoria as a whole. This may represent demographic change, but may also reflect a significant personal vote for Anna Burke.
Fergeus was born and raised in the electorate and studied at Deakin University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Teaching. He has since completed a Masters degree in Social Work from Monash University. An accredited foster carer, Fergeus is Chief Executive Officer of Asbestoswise, President of the Foster Care Association of Victoria and Secretary of Defence for Children International. He was the Green candidate in this seat at the 2010 election.
An Arts/Commerce graduate, before her election to Parliament, 47 year-old Burke worked as an industrial officer in the national office of the Finance Sector Union. A member of various local community organisations before winning Chisholm in 1998, Burke has slowly increased her majority in this marginal electorate. She was elected Deputy Speaker after Labor won the 2007 election. She took on the roll of full-time Acting Speaker when Peter Slipper was forced to stand aside pending legal action, taking on the responsibility of the role without getting the salary. She was finally elected the second female Speaker of the House of Representatives on October 2012.
Grossi arrived in Australia in 1974 from Italy with his parents and three sisters. He grew up locally and again lives in the area. He has had a career in photography for the past 25 years that has taken him to all corners of the globe and back again.
Contesting Chisholm for the second time, Nguyen was born in South Vietnam in 1974, fleeing the country with his grandparents in 1979. After nine months in a Malaysian refugee camp, Nguyen arrived in Australia in 1980. His father had been a Major in the South Vietnamese army and was sent to a re-education camp, his schoolteacher mother staying in Vietnam to look after him, the pair finally joining their family in Australia in 1989. Nguyen was raised in Melbourne's northern suburbs and after attending local Catholic schools, completed a commerce degree at the University of Melbourne, continuing his studies to complete a Post Graduate Diploma in Finance and an MBA at Melbourne Business School. Nguyen worked as an accountant in New York for five years and worked across the road from the World Trade Centre and witnessed the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Myszka is a Construction Worker and Former Army Reservist (2004-2005). He does volunteer work with youth in local community groups and believes in bringing less government dependence and more self determination into the electorate.
Shea was born into a family of six to migrant Irish parents and had his secondary education at MBC Agricultural College. After many years working and living in South Australia and Western Australia, he and his family now live in the Melbourne suburb of Eltham.
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