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AEC abolishes Higgins electorate in Victoria and creates #Bullwinkel in WA

The Australian Electoral Commission (#AEC) has officially abolished the Higgins electorate in Victoria and created the Bullwinkel electorate in Western Australia.

The new WA electorate is named after Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel, sole survivor of the 1942 Banka Island massacre.

In a statement, the AEC said there would be “a very small increase in the number of electors who will change their electoral division” in Victoria. The AEC wrote on X:

As the names [and] boundaries announced today are not considered to be significantly different from the initial proposal there will be no further public input.

The new [Victorian] names and boundaries will be formally determined on 17 October 2024 with overview maps also becoming available.