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- Division_of_Stirling abstract "The Division of Stirling is an Australian electoral division in the inner northern and beachside suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It includes the suburbs of Balcatta, Balga, Carine, Innaloo, Nollamara, North Beach, Scarborough, Stirling, Trigg and Yokine.The electorate was created in the Western Australia redistribution of 10 August 1955, and was named after Sir James Stirling, the 19th-century founding lieutenant governor and governor of Western Australia. Stirling covers a demographically diverse area, including several affluent beachside suburbs, as well as some more deprived areas further inland. As a result, Stirling has often been a marginal seat, alternating between the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party of Australia.Unlike some marginal seats on the east coast, such as Eden-Monaro, Stirling has not often been seen as a barometer for winning government. Probably as a result of coincidence, while it has elected five government MPs, all but three of its members have spent some time in opposition. Its most prominent member has been Labor's Ron Edwards, who was Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives from 29 August 1989 to 8 February 1993; he was in the Chair on 15 September 1992, when then-Prime Minister Paul Keating made his infamous \"I wanna do you slowly\" remark to then-Leader of the Opposition John Hewson. It had been expected that if the 1993 election had not been called so soon after Leo McLeay's resignation as Speaker or if Edwards had held his seat in the election upon the re-election of the Keating Government, Edwards would have been elected Speaker.Opinion polls in the leadup to the 2004 election had suggested a close result in Stirling, leaning towards the possibility of sitting Labor member Jann McFarlane retaining her seat. This had been thought to be more likely after Paul Afkos, the original Liberal candidate, was forced to resign after he was revealed to have borrowed money from a convicted drug dealer. A local businessman, Michael Keenan was brought in as his replacement, and maintained the close difference in polling. However, on election day, the swing to the Liberal Party statewide and nationwide was stronger than expected, and Keenan was ultimately successful in unseating McFarlane. The Stirling Times, a local newspaper, speculated in October 2006 that McFarlane, at that time a Stirling councillor, might contest the seat again in 2007. On 28 November 2006, former SAS officer and outspoken opponent of the Iraq War Peter Tinley accepted an offer from Kim Beazley to run as the ALP candidate in the 2007 election.[1] Ahead of the 2010 election, Labor preselected Louise Durack, a social worker and executive director of People With Disabilities (WA) and past candidate for the state seat of Ocean Reef, to run for the seat. Keenan was re-elected at the 2010 federal election.".
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- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink 2003_invasion_of_Iraq.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Labor_Party.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1955.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1958.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1961.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1972.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1983.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1993.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_1998.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_2004.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_2010.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_2013.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Balcatta,_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Balga,_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Carine,_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Category:1955_establishments_in_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Category:Constituencies_established_in_1955.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Category:Electoral_divisions_of_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Category:Federal_politics_in_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink City_of_Stirling.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Division_of_Eden-Monaro.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Divisions_of_the_Australian_House_of_Representatives.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Doug_Cash.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Electoral_district_of_Ocean_Reef.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Eoin_Cameron.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Governor_of_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Harry_Webb_(politician).
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Ian_Viner.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Innaloo,_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink James_Stirling_(Royal_Navy_officer).
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Jann_McFarlane.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink John_Hewson.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Kim_Beazley.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Leo_McLeay.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Liberal_Party_of_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Michael_Keenan.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Nollamara,_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink North_Beach,_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Afkos.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Keating.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Perth.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Peter_Tinley.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Ron_Edwards_(Australian_politician).
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Scarborough,_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Special_Air_Service_Regiment.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Stirling,_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Trigg,_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLink Yokine,_Western_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLinkText "Division of Stirling".
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLinkText "Stirling (WA)".
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLinkText "Stirling".
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLinkText "Stirling, WA".
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLinkText "a seat in the lower House of the federal Parliament".
- Division_of_Stirling wikiPageWikiLinkText "seat of Stirling".
- Division_of_Stirling area "77".
- Division_of_Stirling candidate Michael_Keenan.
- Division_of_Stirling candidate "Alison Rowe".
- Division_of_Stirling candidate "Dan Caddy".
- Division_of_Stirling candidate "Kevin Host".
- Division_of_Stirling candidate "Kim Mubarak".
- Division_of_Stirling candidate "Matueny Luke".
- Division_of_Stirling candidate "Tim Clifford".
- Division_of_Stirling candidate "Wayne Thompson".
- Division_of_Stirling caption "Division of Stirling in Western Australia".
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- Division_of_Stirling change "+1.91".
- Division_of_Stirling change "+2.05".
- Division_of_Stirling change "+4.02".
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- Division_of_Stirling class "Inner Metropolitan".
- Division_of_Stirling created "1955".
- Division_of_Stirling electors "96289".
- Division_of_Stirling federal "yes".
- Division_of_Stirling imagesize "300".
- Division_of_Stirling mp Michael_Keenan.
- Division_of_Stirling mpParty Liberal_Party_of_Australia.
- Division_of_Stirling name "Stirling".
- Division_of_Stirling namesake James_Stirling_(Royal_Navy_officer).
- Division_of_Stirling party "Australian Christians".
- Division_of_Stirling party "Family First".
- Division_of_Stirling party "Greens".
- Division_of_Stirling party "Independent".
- Division_of_Stirling party "Labor".
- Division_of_Stirling party "Liberal".
- Division_of_Stirling party "Palmer United Party".
- Division_of_Stirling party "Rise Up Australia".