Current MP: Greg Hunt, Liberal. Shop 4, 184 Salmon Street, Hastings, VIC, 3915, (03) 5979 3188 [email protected]
Major Communities/Cities/Towns within Electorate: Baxter (part), Cowes, Rye, Dalyston (Part), Dromana, Hastings, Koo Wee Rup, Nyora, Rosebud and San Remo.
Key 2016 Election Information: -3.74 % swing. 51.6% Liberal, 27.03% Labor, 10.7% The Greens on first party preference voting.
Strongest Support* for Liberal (two party preferred): Cranbourne South (Liberal 63.2% of votes), Mt Martha North (Flinders) (Liberal 61.86%) and Mt Martha (Liberal 61.32%).
Strongest Support* for Labor (two party preferred): Hastings (where ALP obtained 50.56% of votes), Somerville West (ALP 45.7%) and Mt Martha North (Flinders) (ALP 38.14%).
*Note: 'Strongest support' determined using the following criteria: highest % of two-candidate-preferred votes, excluding pre-polling places and polling booths where the number of votes for the winning candidate was less than 1000 or over 5000. This is one example of how you might identify strategic locations in your electorate - for all 2016 election data, please see the AEC Tally Room website.
Background: Greg was born and raised on the Mornington Peninsula where he currently resides with his family. Greg graduated with a First Class Honours in Law from Melbourne University and completed a Masters of International Relations at Yale on a Fulbright Scholarship. After university, he worked as an Associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court, and served afterwards as a Senior Advisor to Alexander Downer, while in opposition and as Foreign Minister. A member of the Liberal Party since 1994, before being elected as Federal Member for Flinders in 2001, he worked for McKinsey for almost three years. Throughout university and on a kibbutz in Israel, he worked in warehouses, metalworking and as a fruit picker.
Key Policy Background: Greg has served in a number of policy and political positions, spanning a variety of portfolios, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage and then Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs as a young MP in the Howard Government. He served as the Minister of Environment between September 2013 and July 2016. As Environment Minister, he lists establishing Australia’s Emissions Reduction Fund, the Great Barrier Reef 2050 Long-term sustainability plan and the $1 billion Reef Fund as key achievements. However, Greg’s term as Environment Minister is marred by controversy such as his enthusiastic support of the planned Adani coal mine, overseeing a ninety-percent drop in renewable energy in Australia, and scrapping the carbon-tax.
With the re-election of the Turnbull government in 2016, he became the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. Following the resignation of Sussan Ley, Greg was appointed as the Minister for Health and Sport.
Relevant Information/Links to Community: Greg has completed four 500km walks around his electorate to raise funds for Juvenile Diabetes and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Record on Issues Related to Refugees: Greg has indicated he strongly supports the Liberal government’s stance on the issues affecting people seeking asylum, and has publicly defended those policies. He has voted moderately in support for regional processing of people seeking asylum, voted very strongly against increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management, voted very strongly against ending immigration detention on Nauru, and has voted moderately against implementing refugee and protection conventions.
Key Industries within Electorate: Steel-rolling mill, dairy farms, fishing, poultry, wineries, orchards, light industries and tourist industries.
Additional Information: In June 2017, Greg and two other MPs, Michael Sukkar and Alan Tudge, faced the possibility of being held in contempt of court after public statements criticising the sentencing decisions of two senior judges. They avoided prosecution, and the resultant expulsion from Parliament, by eventually making an apology to the Victorian Court of Appeal.
Source:
http://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/vic/flinders.htm
https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=00AMV
www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/guide/flin/
https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/flinders/greg_hunt/