An election is looming and it’s time for yet
another Crikey list – Federal MPs who don’t live in
their electorates.

Kevin Andrews: lives in Eaglemont, suburban Melbourne.
He moved there when a redistribution put Eaglemont in his seat of
Menzies, but only a term or two later another redistribution returned
the area to Labor-held Jaga jaga. The Rev didn’t move. (He’s hardly ever
there, anyway.)

Kim Beasley: lives in comfortable middle class South Perth
– about ½ hour or so drive from his very
working class electorate of Brand, which is centered on the industrial town of
Rockingham.

Simon Crean: lives in Middle Park (Melbourne Ports), which
is very similar to his own electorate of Hotham.

Martin Ferguson: Lives in Ivanhoe, which is in Jenny
Macklin’s electorate of Jaga Jaga, rather than in his own electorate of
Batman (the safest Labor seat in the country).

John Howard: Both Kirribilli House and his former
home in Wollstonecraft are not in Bennelong.

Dave Tollner: He lives at Humpty Doo down the
‘track’ a bit and certainly outside his electorate of Solomon. He is
most noted for trying to vote for himself (with cameras watching) only
to be told that he wasn’t on the electoral role in his own electorate.
The nanna that he chucked and the idiot that he made of himself was
quite memorable and a taste of things to come. Luckily for him the
sitting member is allowed to register in the electorate they represent.

Harry Quick: The Member for the seat of Franklin has not
lived in the electorate for the entire time he has represented it. When
the issue comes up he claims that where he lives used to be in Franklin
before they changed the boundaries. His electorate office is located in
Bridgewater, which is in the very north eastern section of the
electorate – quite a hike from the bigger centres of Kingston and Rosny
where most services and offices in the electorate can be found.

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