Talk:Division of Isaacs

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There is a page for Gregory Wilton - It's just called Greg Wilton. Can the page be edited to point to this page instead of the non-existant Gregory Wilton page? -- Commking 19 Sep 2005

Done. For future reference, you can edit any page yourself, just by clicking the "edit this page" link at the top of the screen. --bainer (talk) 13:47, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The two Isaacs seats

We're told the old Division of Isaacs (1949-69) was abolished and a similarly named but otherwise unrelated seat was created at the same time. I wonder if this is the best way of relating this information.

This page from the Parliamentary Handbook suggests the seat has existed continuously since 1949. Redistributions change boundaries, and over time a seat can find itself in quite a different place from where it originally was. For example, in 1901 the Division of Werriwa extended as far south as the edge of what later became the ACT; it was named Werriwa after the local indigenous name for Lake George, which was part of the electorate in 1901. Werriwa is now safely ensconced in Sydney's southwest suburbs. Nobody would suggest the current Werriwa is unrelated to the 1901 Werriwa just because of this. The Isaacs case seems to have achieved a similar geographic discontinuity in one step, rather than gradually by degrees. And after all it only was moved to a different part of Melbourne, not to a different state or anything like that. I'd like to suggest these 2 articles be merged. -- JackofOz 10:02, 9 October 2007 (UTC)