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Is there any precedence of Gosford crossing the hawkesbury River into zhornsby or west into the hawkesbury seat?
@john not that I’m aware of, however the overlapping Federal seat of Robertson had a panhandle into Hornsby until 1969.
John
Prior to 1950, the seat of Hawkesbury included all the area south of the Tuggerah Lakes. 75 years is a long way to go back for a precedent. The links between Gosford and the Hawkesbury are very tenuous – windy dirt roads – or a boat. You could argue a community of interest between Berowra and Gosford on the basis of rosds, rail and two way commuting but crossing the lower Hawkesbury would be a hard argument to make.
I guess the only real choice to bridge any surplus on the central coast would be for hawkesbury to expand into the lower Hunter then?
Why not just push Central Coast seats north into Lake Macquarie? Why would Hawkesbury go up the Putty Road?
Still there’d be excess that would coalesce together and need to be transferred back to Sydney.
We will likely see Gosford expand north longer term. Cessnock and Maitland LGAs are the two fastest-growing in regional NSW and hence various Hunter electorates will have to shrink.
That trend has been going on for quite some time. Until 2007, what we now know as Gosford (district) was known as Peats, and what we now know as Terrigal was known as Gosford. The names had to be switched when the suburb of Gosford had to be transferred from what was then Gosford to what was then Peats.
I imagine a few seats will be renamed next time. I did a quick run through and this is what I’d do on the numbers available
Oxley -> Macleay
Murray -> Griffith
Heffron -> Mascot
Summer Hill -> Marrickville
Strathfield-> Ashfield
Myall Lakes -> Taree
Londonderry -> Werrington
Among a few others.
Regarding @John’s original question, I would argue that the northern and northeastern boundaries of Hawkesbury LGA with the Hunter and Central Coast should never be crossed. A district primarily on the Central Coast but that also reaches into the Berowra corridor is preferable, but still far less than ideal.
Any crossing would likely be temporary. The next redistribution would probably erase it with either a new seat or by dragging one of the western regional seats across