- Tel:
- (02) 6277 2230
- Fax:
- (02) 6277 8564
- Email:
- Email Steve
- Cnr Williamson and Myers Street
Bendigo, VIC, 3550 - Tel:
- (03) 5443 9055
- Fax:
- (03) 5443 9736
- PO Box 338
Bendigo, VIC, 3552
Parliament House
Bendigo Electorate Office
Postal Address:
Biography
Steve was born in Melbourne and worked as a union official and later as a political adviser. He was elected Member for Bendigo in 1998. Previously he was on the Bendigo Hospital's Board of Directors and is a life governor of the hospital. He was on the Bendigo Heritage Advisory Committee and is a member of the Bendigo Historic Motorcycle Club.He is currently deputy chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications, Transport and the Arts. He is also a member of the Caucus Committee on Government Service and Delivery.
Electorate Profile
State: Victoria (Provincial)
Name: Named after the provincial city which is its main centre. Bendigo was named after a shepherd who tended sheep close to where gold was found (Bendigo's Flat); a fighter of some notoriety, he was given the nickname 'Bendigo' after Abendnego Thompson, a famous English fighter of the time.
Area and Location Description: Situated on the northern foothills of the Great Dividing Range in North Central Victoria and providing the southern gateway to the Murray Darling Basin, the seat of Bendigo covers an area of approximately 7286 sq km.
Products/Industries of the area: Coming from the status of one of the world's great gold-rush towns and the greatest goldfield in Victoria, the main population centre (Bendigo) is now the administrative, commercial and educational centre for North Central and Northern Victoria. The opulent endowment of streets lined with grand nineteenth century buildings provides for a strong tourist industry while the rural area of the electorate supports a diverse range of farming, agricultural and viticultural activities along with continuing gold mining and other extractive industries. Other large population centres in the electorate include Maryborough, Castlemaine and Kyneton.
First Proclaimed/Election: 1901
Members:
- Steve Gibbons (ALP) 1998-
- B Reid (LP) 1990-98
- J M Brumby (ALP) 1983-90
- J W Bourchier (LP) 1972-83
- A D Kennedy (ALP) 1969-72
- N L Beaton (ALP) 1960-69
- P J Clarey (ALP) 1949-60
- G J Rankin (ST CP/UCP/CP) 1937-49
- E F Harrison (UAP) 1931-37
- R V Kean (ALP) 1929-31
- G Hurry (NAT) 1922-29
- W M Hughes (NAT) 1917-22
- A J Hampson (ALP) 1915-17
- J A Arthur (ALP) 1913-14
- (Sir) J Quick (PROT/INDROT/LIB) 1901-13