The Division of Jagajaga is an Australian Electoral Division in the state

States and territories of Australia

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 of Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria 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....

. It is located in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, and lies north of the Yarra River

Yarra River

The Yarra River, originally Birrarung, is a river in east-central Victoria, Australia. The lower stretches of the river is where the city of Melbourne was established in 1835 and today Greater Melbourne dominates and influences the landscape of its lower reaches...

. It covers an area of approximately 90 square kilometres and comprises the suburbs of Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe, Victoria

Ivanhoe is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule. At the 2006 Census, Ivanhoe had a population of 10,600.-History:...

, Eaglemont

Eaglemont, Victoria

Eaglemont is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule...

, Bellfield

Bellfield, Victoria

Bellfield is a suburb in Victoria, Australia, 9 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule...

, Heidelberg

Heidelberg, Victoria

Heidelberg is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule....

, Rosanna

Rosanna, Victoria

Rosanna is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule...

, Viewbank

Viewbank, Victoria

Viewbank is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule. At the 2006 Census, Viewbank had a population of 6614....

, Lower Plenty

Lower Plenty, Victoria

Lower Plenty is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule...

, Macleod

Macleod, Victoria

Macleod is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the cities of Banyule and Darebin. At the 2006 Census, Macleod had a population of 8083...

, Yallambie

Yallambie, Victoria

Yallambie is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule. At the 2006 Census, Yallambie had a population of 4267....

, Eltham

Eltham, Victoria

Eltham is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Nillumbik. At the 2006 Census, Eltham had a population of 17,581....

, Watsonia

Watsonia, Victoria

Watsonia is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule. At the 2006 Census, Watsonia had a population of 4905.-History:...

, Bundoora

Bundoora, Victoria

Bundoora is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km north from the Melbourne central business district. Its Local Government Area are the cities of Banyule, Darebin and Whittlesea. At the 2006 Census, Bundoora had a population of 24,018....

, most of Greensborough

Greensborough, Victoria

Greensborough is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule. At the 2006 Census, Greensborough had a population of 20,214....

, Montmorency

Montmorency, Victoria

Montmorency is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule. At the 2006 Census, Montmorency had a population of 8176...

, Briar Hill

Briar Hill, Victoria

Briar Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule. At the 2006 Census, Briar Hill had a population of 3099.-School:...

, Saint Helena

St Helena, Victoria

St Helena is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule.- History :...

, Research

Research, Victoria

Research is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Nillumbik. At the 2006 Census, Research had a population of 2379.-History:...

 and Warrandyte North.

The area is predominantly residential and light industrial, and includes the Australian Army

Australian Army

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's Simpson Barracks

Simpson Barracks

Simpson Barracks is an Australian Army facility in the suburb of Macleod in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Simpson Barracks is home to the DFSS , Financial Services Unit, Defence Force School of Music, Land Warfare Centre and the headquarters of 4th Brigade...

, the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, the Mercy Hospital for Women

Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne

Mercy Hospital for Women, located in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg adjacent to the Austin Hospital, is a specialist women's public hospital offering a wide range of services in maternity, gynaecology, obstetrics, neonatal care and women's health, as well as providing full teaching and research...

 and the Austin Hospital.

The area is closely associated with the Heidelberg School

Heidelberg School

The Heidelberg School was an Australian art movement of the late 19th century. The movement has latterly been described as Australian Impressionism....

 art movement of the late 19th century, and in 1915 architect Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city...

 was commissioned to design a residential subdivision in the area. Griffin became a resident and designed numerous houses in the area. The renowned Montsalvat

Montsalvat

Montsalvat is an artist colony in Eltham, Victoria, Australia, established by Justus Jorgensen in 1934. It is home to over a dozen buildings, houses and halls set amongst richly established gardens on 48,562 m2 of land...

 artists' colony is also located within the Division.

Most of the City of Banyule and parts of the Shire of Nillumbik

Shire of Nillumbik

The Shire of Nillumbik is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. It contains some outer northern suburbs of Melbourne and rural localities beyond the urban area. It has an area of 435 square kilometres and has an estimated population of 62,837 people...

 local government areas are contained within the Division's boundaries. Four Victorian Parliamentary

Parliament of Victoria

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 Districts (Legislative Assembly) are represented in the Division, namely Ivanhoe, Eltham, Bundoora and Yan Yean. The Legislative Council

Victorian Legislative Council

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 Regions of Northern Metropolitan and Eastern Metropolitan are also represented.

The Division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 14 September 1984, and was first contested at the 1984 Federal election. It was named after three Wurundjeri

Wurundjeri

The Wurundjeri are a people of the Indigenous Australian nation of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin alliance, who occupy the Birrarung Valley, its tributaries and the present location of Melbourne, Australia...

 Aboriginal Australian men who supposedly made the Batman Treaty with the party of early colonial settler and one of the founders of Melbourne, John Batman

John Batman

John Batman was an Australian grazier, businessman and explorer who is best known for his role in the founding of a settlement which became Melbourne and the colony of Victoria.-Life:...

 in 1835.

The Division is currently held by Jenny Macklin

Jenny Macklin

Jennifer Louise Macklin , is an Australian politician. She is Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in the Gillard Ministry...

, who is also the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and former Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Peter Staples Peter Staples Peter Staples is an Australian politician. He was first elected to Parliament in 1983 as the Member for Diamond Valley, then represented Jagajaga after Diamond Valley was abolished in 1984...	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...	1984–1996
	Jenny Macklin Jenny Macklin Jennifer Louise Macklin , is an Australian politician. She is Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in the Gillard Ministry...	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...	1996–present

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