16-795: (Redirected from Menzies Cabinet ) Menzies Ministry may refer to any of the following ministries of the Australian Commonwealth: First Menzies Ministry Second Menzies Ministry Third Menzies Ministry Fourth Menzies Ministry Fifth Menzies Ministry Sixth Menzies Ministry Seventh Menzies Ministry Eighth Menzies Ministry Ninth Menzies Ministry Tenth Menzies Ministry Topics referred to by
32-533: A "traditional" two-party contest with Labor to 6.8 percent, the closest margin between the parties in decades. Although the Liberal Party won in the majority of booths, the Greens had the highest primary vote in three booths (Melbourne, Glenferrie and Glenferrie Central) and won in two-party preferred terms in 10 of the booths. The Division is named after the suburb of Kooyong , on which it was originally based. However,
48-649: A redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission . Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. The 2021 Census found that 64.0% of Kooyong constituents were born in Australia with an additional 8.4% being born in China . 44.8% of people stated they weren't religious with
64-482: Is an Australian Electoral Division for the Australian House of Representatives in the state of Victoria , which covers an area of approximately 59 km (23 sq mi) in the inner-east of Melbourne . It contains the affluent suburbs of Balwyn , Balwyn North , Camberwell , Canterbury , Deepdene , Kew , Kew East , Mont Albert , Mont Albert North , Surrey Hills and parts of Glen Iris . After
80-465: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages First Menzies Ministry Prime Minister of Australia First term of government (1939–1941) Second term of government (1949–1966) Ministries Elections [REDACTED] The First Menzies ministry ( United Australia ) was the 25th ministry of the Government of Australia . It
96-608: The 2022 election , teal independent Monique Ryan became the member for the electorate, unseating former Liberal deputy leader and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg . It is the first time since Federation that the seat has not been held by the Liberals or their predecessors. Ryan is also the first woman to hold the seat, as well as the first member to unseat an incumbent in Kooyong since 1922. Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by
112-1002: The Second Menzies ministry , Third Menzies ministry , Fadden ministry , and the Fourth Menzies ministry . MP for Kooyong (1934–1966) MP for North Sydney (1922–1949) MP for Corangamite (1934–1940) MP for Corio (1931–1940) MP for Henty (1925–1940) Senator for South Australia (1935–1947) MP for Macquarie (1931–1940) MP for Wentworth (1931–1956) MP for Flinders (1933–1940) MP for Parramatta (1931–1946) Senator for Queensland (1917–1947) MP for Warringah (1937–1951) MP for Eden-Monaro (1931–1943) Senator for Western Australia (1933–1947) MP for Fawkner (1935–1949) Senator for South Australia (1937–1944) Division of Kooyong The Division of Kooyong ( / k uː j ɒ ŋ / )
128-535: The First Menzies ministry was composed solely of UAP ministers, and was effectively a minority government. The ministry was replaced by the Second Menzies ministry on 14 March 1940 after Menzies took the Country Party back into his government - now led by Archie Cameron . Percy Spender , who died in 1985, was the last surviving member of the First Menzies ministry; Spender was also the last surviving minister of
144-445: The next federal election. Frydenberg won preselection as the Liberal Party's candidate for the seat for the 2010 election and won, despite a small swing against him. In 2019, high-profile Greens candidate Julian Burnside received the highest two-party preferred vote against the Liberals or their predecessors in 90 years, at 44.3%. The Liberals had anticipated a strong contest and doubled their campaign funding to Kooyong earlier in
160-464: The next most common responses being Catholic 19.6%, and then Anglican 7.9%. At the time of the 2022 Australian federal election , over 11% of Kooyong's population possessed Chinese ancestry. The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election . It was named after the suburb , which it originally included; the name is from an Aboriginal word for camp or resting place. Kooyong
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#1732851767667192-770: The seat and his elevation to the High Court . It is one of two original electorates in Victoria to have never been won by the Australian Labor Party , the other being Gippsland . The seat's best-known member was Sir Robert Menzies , the longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia . From 1922 to 1994, it was held by only three members, all of whom went on to lead the non-Labor forces in Parliament – former Opposition Leader and future Chief Justice John Latham , Menzies, and former Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock . For decades, it
208-463: The year, from $ 500,000 to $ 1 million. Frydenberg retained the seat, despite suffering a significant negative swing of 8.81% and the Liberal Party receiving its lowest first preference vote in the electorate in 76 years. It was also only the second time in 76 years that the major non-Labor party did not win the seat outright on the first count. The swing was actually large enough to drop the Liberal margin in
224-454: Was held by the Liberal Party of Australia and its conservative predecessors for the first 121 years of its existence, apart from 1921 to 1925, when John Latham successfully ran as a " Liberal ", mainly on the platform of removing Billy Hughes as prime minister. With Hughes' resignation in 1923, Latham joined the governing Nationalist Party , and remained a member till his resignation from
240-574: Was led by the country's 12th Prime Minister , Robert Menzies . The First Menzies ministry succeeded the Page ministry , which dissolved on 26 April 1939 following the election of Menzies as UAP leader after the death of former Prime Minister Joseph Lyons . However, due to the Country Party withdrawing from the Coalition after relations between caretaker Prime Minister Sir Earle Page and Menzies broke down,
256-478: Was one of the safest Liberal-National coalition seats in metropolitan Australia. Even during Labor's landslide victory in 1943 , Menzies won comfortably with 62.5 percent of the two-party-preferred vote. Peacock's successor, high-profile Liberal backbencher Petro Georgiou , saw off a challenge from Josh Frydenberg for Liberal Party preselection in April 2006. On 22 November 2008, Georgiou announced his retirement at
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