Koonung Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council

Victorian Legislative Council

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. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1992 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It replaced the abolished Boronia Province

Boronia Province

Boronia Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished progressively in 1992 and 1996 and was replaced with Koonung Province.-Members for Boronia Province:...

. It was a safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia

Liberal Party of Australia

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 for most of its history, but was won by Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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 candidate Helen Buckingham

Helen Buckingham

Helen Elizabeth Buckingham is a retired Australian politician. She was the Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2002 to 2006, representing Koonung Province...

 in Labor's landslide victory at the 2002 state election. The electorate was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks

Steve Bracks

Stephen Philip Bracks AC is a former Australian politician and the 44th Premier of Victoria. He first won the electoral district of Williamstown in 1994 for the Australian Labor Party, and was party leader and Premier from 1999 to 2007....

 Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

It was located in the outer east of Melbourne

Melbourne

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. In 2002, when it was last contested, it covered an area of 134km² and included the suburbs of Blackburn

Blackburn, Victoria

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, Boronia

Boronia, Victoria

Boronia is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 29 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Knox...

, Ferntree Gully

Ferntree Gully, Victoria

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, Mitcham

Mitcham, Victoria

Mitcham is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Whitehorse. At the 2006 Census, Mitcham had a population of 14,211.-History:...

, Nunawading

Nunawading, Victoria

Nunawading is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 19 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Whitehorse...

, Rowville

Rowville, Victoria

Rowville is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 29 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Knox. At the 2006 Census, Rowville had a population of 34,412....

, Scoresby

Scoresby, Victoria

Scoresby is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Knox...

, Vermont

Vermont, Victoria

Vermont is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is primarily within the City of Whitehorse whilst the north east portion is within the City of Maroondah...

 and Wheelers Hill

Wheelers Hill, Victoria

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Members for Koonung Province

Member	Party affiliation	Term began	Term ended
Bruce Atkinson Bruce Atkinson Bruce Norman Atkinson is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council since October 1992, representing Koonung Province from 1992 to 2006 and Eastern Metropolitan Region since. He is currently the President of the Legislative Council.Atkinson was born...	Liberal Party of Australia 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...	1992	2006
Gerald Ashman Gerald Ashman Gerald Barry Ashman is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1988 to 2002, representing first Boronia and then Koonung Province....	Liberal Party of Australia 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	2002
Helen Buckingham Helen Buckingham Helen Elizabeth Buckingham is a retired Australian politician. She was the Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2002 to 2006, representing Koonung Province...	Australian Labor Party 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...	2002	2006