Kaurna South Australia—House of Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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State | South Australia | ||||||||||||||
Created | 1993 | ||||||||||||||
MP | Chris Picton | ||||||||||||||
Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
Namesake | Kaurna people | ||||||||||||||
Electors | 26,254 (2018) | ||||||||||||||
Area | 44.69 km2 (17.3 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Demographic | Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 35°13′44″S 138°28′12″E / 35.22889°S 138.47000°E | ||||||||||||||
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Electoral District map[1] |
Kaurna is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the Kaurna aboriginal tribe which originally inhabited the Adelaide plains, it is a 44.7 km² semi-urban electorate on Adelaide's far-southern beaches, taking in the suburbs of Hackham, Huntfield Heights, Maslin Beach, Moana, Noarlunga Downs, Old Noarlunga, Port Noarlunga South, Seaford, Seaford Heights, Seaford Meadows and Seaford Rise, as well as part of Onkaparinga Hills. It is one of two state districts named after South Australia's indigenous people (the other being the electoral district of Narungga).