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The
Division of Higgins is an
Australian Electoral Division in
Victoria.
The division was created in
1949 and is named after Justice
H. B. Higgins (1851-1929), Victorian
MLA (1894), president of the Carlton Football Club (1904), Australian
MP 1906-1929, and justice of the
High Court of Australia.
It includes affluent inner eastern suburbs of
Melbourne, such as
Armadale,
Ashburton,
Malvern, and
Toorak, as well as parts of
Glen Iris,
Camberwell,
Prahran, and
South Yarra. It has always been a safe seat for the
Liberal Party. Its first two members,
Harold Holt and
John Gorton, were Liberal
Prime Ministers. Higgins is the only Division to have been held by two Prime Ministers, which occurred when Holt went missing while PM, and then Senator Gorton was named as his replacement. As the Prime Minister must to be a member of the House of Representatives, Gorton was thus required to run in the by-election for Holt's old seat.
Its current member,
Peter Costello, was
Treasurer of Australia and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party when in government. On
25 November 2007, following the
Coalition loss in the
federal election the previous day, Costello announced that he'd "not seek nor accept" leadership or deputy leadership of the Liberal Party. A week later, he indicated that he'd be unlikely to serve out in full his parliamentary term of three years.
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