Sam Rae (ALP) is your MP. To find out about Sam:

• Check out their parliamentary, personal and party websites, and their Wikipedia entry.

• This site tells you how your MP’s policy priorities align with the priorities of voters in the seat. From Menu, click on Meet the Perfect Candidate, then Let’s talk and then Compare my electorate. Then type in your electorate and follow the prompts.

• Enter your MP’s name on this site and find out the parliamentary bills the MP voted for or against (or abstained on), and whether this conformed to their party vote.

• This site also tells you how your MP voted, as well as biographical information, the MPs’ speeches, their parliamentary expenses and their declared interests (that is, their properties, investments and gifts). The best place to start is to click on the summary button.

Find out about other candidates for this seat when they nominate and campaign before the election.

This is a new seat in the 2022 election.

This Australian Electoral Commission Profile contains some basic information about the electorate, including a map, the local government areas it covers and a link to details of the current MP.

The Wikipedia entry for the new seat of Hawke.

This Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Quickstats page for this seat will be available for the Division of Hawke on release of the 2021 Census data in July 2022. It will provide a range of demographic information relating to gender, age, education levels, ethnic background, religious affiliation, employment levels, occupations, incomes, family composition, housing circumstances and more, in numbers and percentages. These are compared with figures for your state and the nation.