The Division of Gellibrand is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Joseph Gellibrand, a pioneer settler of the Melbourne area. It is located in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne and includes Footscray, Maidstone, Newport, Altona and Williamstown.
It has been held by the Australian Labor Party for its entire existence; it is located in Labor's traditional heartland of western Melbourne. Labor has never tallied less than 60 percent of the two-party vote. Its most prominent members have been Ralph Willis, a Cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, and Nicola Roxon, a Cabinet minister in the Rudd Government and the first and second Gillard Governments. It is currently the safest Labor seat in the Federal Parliament, with a 24 percent swing required for the Liberals to win it.
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“Affection, indulgence, and humor alike are powerless against the instinct of children to rebel. It is essential to their minds and their wills as exercise is to their bodies. If they have no reasons, they will invent them, like nations bound on war. It is hard to imagine families limp enough always to be at peace. Wherever there is character there will be conflict. The best that children and parents can hope for is that the wounds of their conflict may not be too deep or too lasting.”
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