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hughento
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« on: April 06, 2012, 09:17:16 PM » |
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I'm basically with Smid. Calling Gippsland East Gippsland East makes sense, seeing as it's the eastern part of Gippsland, but other geographical seat names in Australia don't work so well - such as my own, Melbourne Ports. Whilst it isn't awful, Cauylfield is hardly port-ish. And whilst you could go with something ugly, like Melbourne Centre South, as the British would do, which would be an accurate description, or use the completely non-descriptive US system (say, VIC-05), the only way to name a seat that I find appealing ios to attempt to name the whole region quite specifically, as in Canada (St. Kilda-Caulfield-Port and South Melbourne, maybe) or go with the Australian system, which aims to use a figure or reference from the area, doesn't eclude any localitis, and keeps the name short. Which is why I would support something like 'Crean' or 'Fraser' for the electorate.
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