The Division of Gilmore is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

. The division was created in 1984 and is named for Dame Mary Gilmore

Mary Gilmore

Dame Mary Gilmore DBE was a prominent Australian socialist poet and journalist.-Early life:Mary Jean Cameron was born on 16 August 1865 at Cotta Walla near Goulburn, New South Wales...

, the poet and author. It is located in the Shoalhaven

Shoalhaven

The City of Shoalhaven is a Local Government Area in south-eastern New South Wales , Australia, two hours south of Sydney. It is more or less conterminous with an area referred to as The Shoalhaven. It is on the Pacific Ocean and the Princes Highway and is the terminus of the South Coast line...

 the southern Illawarra

Illawarra

Illawarra is a region in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a coastal region situated immediately south of Sydney and north of the Shoalhaven or South Coast region. It encompasses the cities of Wollongong, Shellharbour, Shoalhaven and the town of Kiama. The central region contains Lake...

 regions, extending from Warilla

Warilla, New South Wales

Warilla is a seaside suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the more established areas and is nestled between other suburbs of Mount Warrigal in the west, Barrack Heights and Barrack Point in the south and Lake Illawarra in the north....

 in the north to Durras in the south, then west including much of the, Budawang

Budawang National Park

Budawang is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 200 km southwest of Sydney. It contains part of the Budawang Mountain Range....

 and Morton National Park

Morton National Park

Morton is a national park in New South Wales , 170 km southwest of Sydney.The most notable attractions are the Fitzroy Falls, just off the main road from the Highlands to Kangaroo Valley and Pigeon House Mountain west of Milton. The park consists mostly of a flat plateau dissected by steep...

s. Towns and suburbs include Berry

Berry, New South Wales

Berry is a small Australian town in the Shoalhaven region of the NSW South Coast in the state of New South Wales, located south of the state capital, Sydney. The indigenous people of the area were the Wodi Wodi people. In the 1810s, George William Evans, Government Surveyor, reported on the Berry...

, Bomaderry

Bomaderry, New South Wales

Bomaderry is a town in the Shoalhaven council district area of New South Wales, Australia. In 2006, it had a population of 6,601 people. It is on the north shore of the Shoalhaven River, across the river from Nowra, the major town of the Shoalhaven,of which Bomaderry is locally regarded as being...

, Culburra Beach

Culburra Beach, New South Wales

Culburra Beach, commonly referred to as Culburra, is in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, Australia. It is 18 km east-southeast of Nowra on the South Coast...

, Gerringong

Gerringong, New South Wales

Gerringong is a town located about 10 minutes south of Kiama in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia in the Municipality of Kiama. At the 2006 census, Gerringong had a population of 3,588 people.One theory says that the name derives from an Aboriginal word meaning "fearful...

, Kangaroo Valley

Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales

Kangaroo Valley is a valley along the Kangaroo River in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia, located west of the seaside in the City of Shoalhaven...

, Kiama

Kiama, New South Wales

-Transport:The town is served by Kiama Station on the South Coast Line. It is served by road in the form of the Princes Highway and the Kiama Bypass.-Attractions:...

, Milton

Milton, New South Wales

Milton is a town in the City of Shoalhaven on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, not far from Ulladulla. It was founded in the middle of the 19th century...

, Minnamurra

Minnamurra, New South Wales

Minnamurra is a suburb in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia, in the Municipality of Kiama. It has a station on CityRail South Coast line. The Minnamurra River flows into the ocean at Minnamurra...

, Nowra

Nowra, New South Wales

Nowra is a city in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Located SSW and approximately by road south of the state capital of Sydney, it has an estimated population together with its twin-town of Bomaderry of 34,479. It is also the seat and commercial centre of the City of Shoalhaven...

, Shellharbour

Shellharbour, New South Wales

Shellharbour is a southern beachside suburb of Wollongong, located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It also gives its name to the Local Government Area, City of Shellharbour....

, Shell Cove

Shell Cove, New South Wales

Shell Cove is a southern seaside suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. It includes Bass Point, the Killalea State Park and the Shellharbour Links Golf Course....

, Sussex Inlet

Sussex Inlet, New South Wales

Sussex Inlet is a town in Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the west bank of the waterway called Sussex Inlet, which divides New South Wales from the Jervis Bay Territory.Jervis Bay Airport is located about 10 km east of Sussex Inlet....

, Ulladulla

Ulladulla, New South Wales

Ulladulla is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia in the City of Shoalhaven local government area. It is on the Princes Highway, about half way between the larger towns of Batemans Bay to the south and Nowra to the north and approximately 179 km south of Sydney...

 and Warilla.

It is a marginal seat, although at the 2001 election it produced the largest swing to the Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

The 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...

 of any seat in Australia.
After redistribution it has become a notionally 0.3% ALP seat but with an incumbent Liberal member.
For the 21 August 2010 Federal election the Greens preselected former RAAF Group Captain and Kiama Deputy Mayor Ben van der Wijngaart. The ALP preselected former advertising manager and Kiama councillor Neil Reilly after the resignation of the former candidate David Boyle after a revolt by local ALP branches. The Liberal candidate was the incumbent MP, Joanna Gash who entered parliament in 1996. Interestingly, both the Greens and the Liberal candidate were Dutch, and emigrated on the same ship as small children as immigrants after WWII (Joanna in 1950 from Grondingen and Ben in 1952 from Rotterdam. Both were 6 at the time). Gash retained the seat at the election.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	John Sharp John Sharp (Australian politician) John Randall Sharp , Australian politician, is a former National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Divisions of Gilmore and Hume in New South Wales....	National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1984–1993
	Peter Knott Peter Knott Peter John Knott was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the Australian House of Representatives. He represented Gilmore from 1993 to 1996 for the Australian Labor Party ....	Labor Australian Labor Party The 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...	1993–1996
	Joanna Gash Joanna Gash Joanna Gash , has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Gilmore on the southern coast of New South Wales.-Personal:...	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The 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...	1996–present

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