11-399: Elsey may refer to: Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Northern Territory [ edit ] Elsey, Northern Territory , a locality Elsey National Park , a protected area Elsey Station , a former pastoral lease Electoral division of Elsey , a former electorate Germany [ edit ] Elsey Abbey ,
22-556: A former women's religious house United States [ edit ] Elsey, Missouri People [ edit ] Bill Elsey (1921–2019), British racehorse trainer Charles Elsey (1882–1966), British racehorse trainer George Elsey (1918-2015), US Naval Commander during World War 2 Joseph Ravenscroft Elsey (1834–1857), English-born naturalist, surgeon and explorer in Australia See also [ edit ] Elseya [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
33-770: A particular state or territory, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state or territory's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state or territory are malapportioned. The division was named after prominent Aboriginal rights activist Vincent Lingiari AM (1908–1988), who was a member of the Gurindji nation. Other divisions named after Aboriginal Australians are Bennelong in New South Wales , Blair and Bonner in Queensland , and Cooper and Nicholls in Victoria. The division
44-681: Is an Australian electoral division in the Northern Territory that covers the entirety of the territory outside of the Division of Solomon , which covers Darwin and surrounding areas. The division also includes the territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands . Lingiari includes all of the Northern Territory's remote Indigenous communities, most of whom vote when visited by mobile polling teams during
55-463: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Elsey, Northern Territory Elsey is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 349 kilometres (217 mi) south-east of the territory capital of Darwin . The locality’s name derived from the Elsey Creek whose watercourse is located within the locality and which
66-730: The Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands . From its formation until the 2022 Australian federal election , it had been held by Warren Snowdon of the Australian Labor Party , who transferred there after the Division of Northern Territory was abolished. At the time of the 2004 election , there were 58,205 people enrolled to vote in Lingiari, making it one of the least populous divisions in Australia. Lingiari has
77-499: The election campaign. The current MP is Marion Scrymgour , a member of the Australian Labor Party . Scrymgour herself is Indigenous and inherited Tiwi identity from her mother. Federal electoral division boundaries in Australia are determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission . Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in
88-681: The following places listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register : The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Elsey had 39 people living within its boundaries. Elsey is located within the federal division of Lingiari , the territory electoral division of Barkly and the local government area of the Roper Gulf Region . Division of Lingiari The Division of Lingiari ( / l ɪ ŋ dʒ i ˈ ɑːr i / )
99-423: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsey&oldid=1196875453 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
110-400: Was named by the explorer, Augustus Charles Gregory . The name is ultimately derived from John Ravenscroft Elsey, a surgeon and naturalist, who was a member of Gregory’s expedition to Northern Australia during 1856. The locality of Elsey fully surrounds both the community of Jilkminggan and the locality of Mataranka . Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Elsey includes
121-534: Was one of the two established when the former Division of Northern Territory was redistributed on 21 December 2000. It covers almost the entire Territory—except for the area around Darwin , which is covered by the Division of Solomon —an area of 1,347,849 square kilometres (520,407 sq mi). It is the second largest electorate in terms of area in Australia, the largest being the Division of Durack in Western Australia . The division also includes
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