Australian history has seen very little gerrymandering of electoral boundaries, which have nearly always been drawn up by public servants or independent boundary commissioners.
Will the boundary commissioners be free to ignore any and all boundaries?
Under the 1899 legislation, boundary commissioners were appointed to set the boundaries of the new boroughs.
In 1900 the boundary commissioners divided the borough into six wards for the election of councillors:
I represent the other half and represented the area in which he now lives until the boundary commissioners so cruelly took it from me in 1983.
The boundaries of the county were adjusted by the boundary commissioners appointed under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 that established the county council.
It was erected in 1882 and engraved with the names of all the surveyors and boundary commissioners who resurveyed the line in 1870's.
As a result, the 1970 general election was not fought on the basis of the new boundaries recommended by the boundary commissioners.
He was appointed as boundary commissioner in March 1699 to try help settle the boundary dispute with Virginia.
The same boundaries were retained in 1885, and can be seen on the boundary commissioners' map.