Division of Bullwinkel explained

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Bullwinkel
Namesake:Vivian Bullwinkel

The Division of Bullwinkel is a proposed Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia. It was created in 2024 as part of a redistribution, and is expected to come into effect at the next federal election.[1] The seat is notionally held by the Labor Party.[2]

Bullwinkel will incorporate parts of the divisions of Hasluck, Durack, Swan, O'Connor, and Canning.[3]

The seat is named after Vivian Bullwinkel (1915−2000), an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War who was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wright . Shane . Labor-held Melbourne seat of Higgins to be scrapped in boundary redraw . Sydney Morning Herald.
  2. Web site: Evans . Jake . Michelle Ananda-Rajah's seat of Higgins set to be abolished at next federal election . ABC News.
  3. Web site: Proposed redistribution of Western Australia into electoral divisions . Australian Electoral Commission . 31 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240531063539/https://www.aec.gov.au/redistributions/2023/wa/proposed-redistribution/files/Proposed-redistribution-of-Western-Australia-into-electoral-divisions-May-2024.pdf . 31 May 2024 . 31 May 2024.
  4. Book: Brown, Kellie D. . The sound of hope: Music as solace, resistance and salvation during the holocaust and world war II . McFarland . 2020 . 236.

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