Eumemmerring Province

Eumemmerring Province; Victoria—Legislative Council
State	Victoria
Created	1985
Abolished	2006

Eumemmerring Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1985 to 2006, with members holding alternating eight-year terms. It was a marginal seat throughout its existence, changing parties in the large landslide elections of 1992 and 2002. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

It was located on the south-eastern fringe of Melbourne. In 2002, when it was last contested, it covered an area of 2,199 km² and included the suburbs of Berwick, Cockatoo, Dandenong, Emerald, Gembrook, Narre Warren, Warburton and Yarra Junction.

Members for Eumemmerring Province

	Party	Term
Fred Van Buren	Labor	1985–1992	Member 2		Party	Term
Fred Van Buren	Labor	1985–1992		Bob Ives	Labor	1988–1996
Ron Wells	Liberal	1992–1999		Bob Ives	Labor	1988–1996
Ron Wells	Liberal	1992–1999		Neil Lucas	Liberal	1996–2002
Gordon Rich-Phillips	Liberal	1999–2006		Neil Lucas	Liberal	1996–2002
Gordon Rich-Phillips	Liberal	1999–2006		Adem Somyurek	Labor	2002–2006

gollark: Oh, right. That would have been easier than doing it by hand.

gollark: Did you just randomly decide to calculate that?

gollark: Well, you can, or also "it would have about the same mass as the atmosphere".

gollark: Wikipedia says that spider silk has a diameter of "2.5–4 μm", which I approximated to 3μm for convenience, so a strand has a 1.5μm radius. That means that its cross-sectional area (if we assume this long thing of spider silk is a cylinder) is (1.5e-6)², or ~7e-12. Wikipedia also says its density is about 1.3g/cm³, which is 1300kg/m³, and that the observable universe has a diameter of 93 billion light-years (8.8e26 meters). So multiply the length of the strand (the observable universe's diameter) by the density of spider silk by the cross-sectional area of the strand and you get 8e18 kg, while the atmosphere's mass is about 5e18 kg, so close enough really.

gollark: Okay, so by mass it actually seems roughly correct.

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