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Fremantle Electorate Profile



Current Member
Simone Frances McGurk
(ALP)

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Simone has lived in the Fremantle community for 20 years. As a young adult she moved to Melbourne where she got a History degree from the University of Melbourne.

Simone has worked in the union movement for over 22 years. She was one of the first women elected to be an Organiser for the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, before being elected the Assistant State Secretary in 1997.

After returning to university to study Media at Murdoch University, Simone worked for a short period in Native Title, and as a Producer with the ABC.

She was elected Secretary of UnionsWA in 2009 until she was elected to state parliament in 2013. She is currently Minister for Child Protection; Women's Interests; Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence; Community Services


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Statistical Profile of the Fremantle Electorate



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*New* Statistics for 2021 Election Boundaries


About the Fremantle Electorate

Number of Electors: 25,801 (9 March 2015)
Western Australian Electoral Commission. State Electorate Information.

Nomenclature:
Named after Captain Charles Howe Fremantle who arrived at the Swan River Colony on 2 May 1829, on the HMS Challenger. Fremantle had been despatched from the Cape of Good Hope on 20 March of that year, by Commodore Schomberg, of the Indian Squadron, and after anchoring off the mouth of the Swan River, hoisted the British flag on the South Head, and took formal possession in the name of His Majesty King George IV, of "all that part of New Holland which is not included within the territory of New South Wales." The name Fremantle has at times and in various records been incorrectly spelt as 'Freemantle'.

Source:
Western Australia. Department of Land Administration. Names and Places.

Suburbs:
Beaconsfield, Coogee*, East Fremantle*, Fremantle*, Hamilton Hill, Hilton, North Coogee, O'Connor*, Palmyra*, Rottnest Island, South Fremantle, Spearwood* and White Gum Valley.

* = Suburb/Town split between more than one District.

Source:
Western Australian Electoral Commission. State Electorate Information.


Local Governments within District
City of Cockburn (part)
Town of East Fremantle (part)
City of Fremantle (part)
City of Melville (part)


Schools in the Fremantle Electorate

Government:
Beaconsfield Primary School
East Fremantle Primary School
East Hamilton Hill Primary School
Fremantle College
Fremantle Primary School
Hilton Primary School
John Curtin College of the Arts
Phoenix Primary School
Southwell Primary School
Spearwood Primary School
White Gum Valley Primary School
Winterfold Primary School

Others:
Christ the King School
Christian Brothers' College
Fremantle Christian College
Kerry Street Community School
Lance Holt School
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School
Port School
St Patrick's Primary School
Local Newspapers:

Fremantle Gazette
Fremantle Herald


Books about Fremantle:

WDavid Webb: Fremantle beyond the Round House (109p. Longley Books, 2005)

John K Ewers: The Western gateway - a history of Fremantle (262p. UWA Press, 1971)

Jack Lee: This is East Fremantle - the story of a town and its people (214p. Publication Printer, 1979)

Deborah Tout-Smith: The foundations of Fremantle - exploring the early history of Western Australia's port city (64p. Western Australian Museum, 1998)

George Seddon: Looking at an old suburb - a walking guide to four blocks of Fremantle (101p. G Seddon, 2000)

Michael Bosworth: Convict Fremantle - a place of promise and punishment (108p. UWA Press, 2004)

Patricia Brown: The merchant princes of Fremantle - the rise and decline of a colonial elite 1870-1900 (235p. UWA Press, 1996)

Carl Edwards: Giant lettered sheds - life in the port city of Fremantle in the 1950s (310p. Bookpal, 2010)

John Dowson: Fremantle Port, a pictorial history (197p. Chart and Map Shop, 2011)

John Dowson: Fremantle, the immigration story - twentieth century immigration through Fremantle (40p. Fremantle Society, 2001)

John Dowson: Old Fremantle childhood (72p. UWA Press, 2006)

Karen Lang: Wharf rats and other stories - 100 years of growing up in Fremantle (247p. Fremantle Primary School P & C, 2004)

Ron Davidson: Fremantle impressions (287p. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2006)

Ron Davidson: Fighting for Fremantle - the Fremantle Society story (167p. Fremantle Press, 2010)

Paul Arthur: Voices from the West End (311p. Western Australian Museum, 2012)

Simon Nevill: Perth and Fremantle - past and present (191p. Simon Nevill Publications, 2007)

R J Ferguson: Rottnest Island - history and architecture (126p. UWA Press, 1986)

Chronological history of Rottnest Island (32p. Government of Western Australia, 1995)

Kirwan Ward: Rottnest Island sketchbook (63p. Rigby, 1969)

Prue Joske: Rottnest Island - a documentary history (421p. UWA, 1995)

Jack Watson: Rottnest - its tragedy and its glory (223p. D L Watson, 1998)

Kevin Moran: Rottnest - ghosts of Wadjemup, a history of the discovery, the settlement, Aboriginal penal colony, boy's reformatory, the development of Rottnest as a holiday isle (207p. Frickers International Publishing, 2002)

Kevin Moran: Rottnest law (334p., 1998)

Trea Wiltshire: Gone to Rottnest (98p. UWA Press, 2004)
Founders and felons - a tour guide for the Fremantle Cemetery (27p. Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, 2004)




2017 Election Result





* Results by Polling Place etc.

* Election Analysis:


Successive Members for the Fremantle District



William Marmion
Constituency created under the Redistribution of Seats, 2015
NamePartyTerm
William Edward Marmion1890 - 1896
John Joseph HighamMinisterialist1896b - 1904
Edward NeedhamAustralian Labor Party1904 - 1905
James PriceMinisterialist1905b - 1910
William Alfred MurphyMinisterialist1910b - 1911
William Henry CarpenterAustralian Labor Party1911 - 1917
Walter Leonard JonesAustralian Labor Party1917 - 1921
Frank Ernest GibsonNationalist1921 - 1924
Joseph Bertram SleemanAustralian Labor Party1924 - 1959
Harry Arthur FletcherAustralian Labor Party1959 - 1977
John Robert TroyAustralian Labor Party1977 - 1980
David Charles ParkerAustralian Labor Party1980 - 1990
James (Jim) Andrew McGintyAustralian Labor Party1990b - 2009
Adele Simone CarlesGreens2009b - 2013
Simone Frances McGurkAustralian Labor Party2013 -






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