Sign at Gove Airport showing a map of the Northern Territory, with detailed insets on Nhulunbuy and the Gove Peninsula. Gove Airport is on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory of Australia. Nhulunbuy ( is the name of the township created on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory of Australia when a Bauxite mine The Gove Peninsula ( is at the northeastern corner of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Nhulunbuy is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. The Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is made up of 25 single-member electoral divisions. The Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is the Unicameral parliament of the Northern Territory in Australia. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the center of the mainland continent as well as the central northern regions It was first created in 1974, and is named after the remote town of the same name. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Nhulunbuy ( is the name of the township created on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory of Australia when a Bauxite mine Nhulunbuy is a rural electorate, covering 113,600 sq km and taking in the towns of Nhulunbuy, Galiwinku, Yirrkala and Gapuwiyak. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of Nhulunbuy ( is the name of the township created on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory of Australia when a Bauxite mine For the Genus of Snake eels see Yirrkala (fish. Yirrkala is a well-known indigenous community in Arnhem Land Gapuwiyak (called Lake Evella in English is an Australian Aboriginal community located in north east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. There were 4606 people enrolled in the electorate as of June 2005. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Nhulunbuy has traditionally been a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party, with more than 50% of the electorate's population being indigenous, and thus has easily held the seat without a break since 1980. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) The only exception to the ALP's dominance was Milton Ballantyne, who won the seat for the Country Liberal Party in 1974 when the ALP won no seats in the Assembly, and managed to hold on despite a strong swing to the ALP in 1977, before being easily beaten by the ALP's Dan Leo in 1980. The Country Liberal Party (CLP is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the Liberal and National parties Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Nhulunbuy is currently held by Deputy Chief Minister Syd Stirling.

Members for Nhulunbuy

External links

• Division profile from the Northern Territory Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of the Northern Territory
Arafura | Araluen | Arnhem | Barkly | Blain | Braitling | Brennan | Casuarina | Daly | Drysdale | Fannie Bay | Goyder | Greatorex | Johnston | Kamara | Katherine | MacDonnell | Millner | Nelson | Nhulunbuy | Nightcliff | Port Darwin | Sanderson | Stuart | Wanguri