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WEEK 3:
BUNKER DANIEL RIDDELL S3053091
BIRTH, SCHOOLING, ELECTORATE, DEATH Birth Place
05-08-1905
Stanmore, NSW
Schooling
1913-1919 1921 1927
Various schools in Sydney and Adelaide. Attended Wesley in Melbourne at age 16. Started Law at Queens College at the University of Melbourne.
Electorate 1935 1939 1940 1949 1949-1958 1949-1956 1958-1966 1966-1967
Stood for Federal House of Representitives at a by-election in the seat of Fawkner. Youngest ever MP at age 27. Minister in charge of Scientific and Industrial Research Research. Elevated to Cabinet as Minister for Labour and National Service. Transferred to seat of Higgings after the redribution saw his majority in Fawkner disapear. It was created as a safe liberal seat, he won easily. Minister for Labour and National Service. Minister for Immigration 1949 - 1956. Appointed Treasurer following the retirement of Arthur Fadden. Prime Minister following retirement of Robert Menzies.
Death Place
Drowned in rough seas at Cheviot Beach, Point Nepean, Victoria. (Sunday December
1967
MEMORIALS Harold Holt Swim Centre
Glen Iris, Victoria, Holt was the local Member for Malvern (Higgins)
USS Harold E Holt
In 1968, the newly commissioned United States Navy Knox class destroyer escort was named in Holts honour. She was launched by Holt’s widow Dame Zara at the Todd Ship yards in Los Angeles on 3 May 1969, and was the first American warship to bear the name of a foreign leader.
Cheviot Beach Seafloor Plaque In 1969, a plaque commemorating Holt was bolted to the seafloor off Cheviot Beach after a memorial ceremony. It bears the inscription: ‘In memory of Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, who loved the sea and disappeared hereabouts on 17 December 1967.’ Harold Holt Fisheries Reserves Five protected areas in southern Port Phillip, located at Swan Bay, Point Lonsdale, Mud Islands, Point Nepean and Pope’s Eye (The Annulus). OTHER MEMORIALS Holt, Northern Territory, memorial. Harold E Hiolt Naval Communication Station. Division of Holt, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in Victoria. Fitzroy Gardens Sundial, Melbourne. Holt Wing, boarders wing at Wesley College, Melbourne.
HIGGINS First Election: 1949 (Holt) The main suburbs include: Armadale; Ashburton; Kooyong; Malvern; Malvern East; Prahran and Toorak Parts of: Carnegie; Glen Iris; Hughesdale; Murrumbeena; South Yarra and Windsor. PROFILE Covers an area of 39 sq km. Electorate is mainly residential with commercial and retail in intrests in a number of suburbs Contains many affluent white collar suburbs, Toorak for example is Australia’s 12th most expensive suburb, Kooyong, the 21st most expensive (1). The seat has been a safe liberal seat since its creation in 1949. The first two members for the seat where Prime Ministers, Harold Holt (17th) and Sir John Gorton (19th), it is the only seat in the House of Reps to be held by 2 PM’s. Famoulsy Peter Costello who served as 11 and a half years as treasurer held the seat until he retired in 2009. (1) http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/australias-25-most-expensive-suburbs-20121011-27fd9.html
Federal Electoral Division of
HIGGINS
VIC
Boundary gazetted 24 December 2010
MELBOURNE
Burnley
Boundary of Stonnington LGA
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Boundary of Stonnington LGA
TOORAK
Kooyong
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BEENA MURRUM
GOLDSTEIN
McKinnon
Murrumbeena
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Windsor QUEENS
This map has been compiled by Spatial Vision from data supplied by the Australian Electoral Commission,
and Spatial Vision 2010, under licence from Department of Sustainability and Environment.
© State of Victoria (2010) © Commonwealth of Australia (2010)
RD
KOOYONG
South Yarra
Divisional boundary Adjoining boundary Size of division
40 sq km
Note: Local Government Area (LGA) descriptions are current to 2010. Federal electoral boundaries follow the centre of features unless otherwise advised.
RESEARCH:
POTENTIAL SITES
LOCATION 1: PRAHRAN CARPARK PRAHRAN
LOCATION 2: CHEVIOT BEACH POINT NEPEAN
DRAW:
PM’S BUNKER
BUNKER: GOLDEN SPIRAL