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, who was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, president of the Carlton Football Club, a founding Member of Australian House of Representatives and Justice of the High Court of Australia. It includes affluent inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne, such as Armadale, Ashburton, Malvern, Toorak and parts of Glen Iris, as well as parts of Camberwell, Carnegie, Murrumbeena, Prahran, and South Yarra. Historically the seat has been prominent in Australian federal politics and for the Liberal Party of Australia. The seat's first two members, Harold Holt and Sir John Gorton, were the seventeenth and nineteenth Prime Ministers of Australia. Higgins is the only Division to have been held by two Prime Ministers, which occurred when Holt went missing while Prime Minister, and then-Senator Gorton was elected as his replacement. More recently the Division of Higgins was held by the longest serving Treasurer of Australia and former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, Peter Costello who was a prominent member of the Howard Government. Costello resigned from the seat on 19 October 2009. Wikipedia [ - ]

The Division of Higgins is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was... [ + ]