Division of North Sydney

North Sydney; Australian House of Representatives Division
	Division of North Sydney (green) in New South Wales
Created	1901
MP	Joe Hockey
Party	Liberal
Namesake	North Sydney, New South Wales
Area	48 km2 (18.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of North Sydney is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division is named after the North Sydney area. It was set up in 1900 for the first federal election in 1901.

Electoral divisions[change | change source]

The electoral division includes the suburbs of Artarmon, Cammeray, Cremorne, Cremorne Point, Crows Nest, Gore Hill, Greenwich, Henley, Hunters Hill, Huntleys Point, Kirribilli, Lane Cove, Lane Cove North, Lane Cove West, Lavender Bay, Linley Point, Longueville, McMahons Point, Milsons Point, Naremburn, Neutral Bay, North Sydney,Northbridge, Northwood, Riverview, St Leonards, Tarban, Waverton, Wollstonecraft, Woolwich and parts of Castlecrag, Gladesville and Willoughby.

Members[change | change source]

	Party	Term
Dugald Thomson	Free Trade, Anti-Socialist	1901–1909
Dugald Thomson	Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1910
George Edwards	Commonwealth Liberal	1910–1911
(Sir) Granville Ryrie	Commonwealth Liberal	1911–1917
(Sir) Granville Ryrie	Nationalist	1917–1922
Billy Hughes	Nationalist	1922–1929
	Independent Nationalist	1929–1930
	Australian	1930–1931
	United Australia	1931–1945
	Liberal	1945–1949
William Jack	Liberal	1949–1966
Bill Graham	Liberal	1966–1980
John Spender	Liberal	1980–1990
Ted Mack	Independent	1990–1996
Joe Hockey	Liberal	1996–2015
Trent Zimmerman	Liberal	2015–present

North Sydney is one of only two original divisions in New South Wales, which have never been held by the ALP. It has been held by a member of a non-Labor party for all but six years, when independent Ted Mack held it. It was held after the December 1922 election by Prime Minister Billy Hughes. Hughes was replaced as Nationalist party leader, and therefore Prime Minister by Stanley Bruce in February 1923. Joe Hockey was Treasurer in the Abbott Government, but lost his position when Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister. Hockey resigned from Parliament which caused a by-election, and was then appointed as the Ambassador to the US.^[1]