page_title: Division of Durack
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Division of Durack / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Dame Mary Durack (1913-1994) Australian author and historian
context_page_description: The Division of Durack is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Western Australia.
context_section_description: The Division is named after the pioneering Durack family, upon whom Dame Mary Durack based her popular historical novels. Created to replace parts of the divisions of Kalgoorlie (which has been abolished) and O'Connor, it elected its first member at the 2010 election. It was created as a comfortably safe Liberal seat. Sitting Kalgoorlie MP Barry Haase contested the seat for the Liberals and won. Haase announced he would not recontest Durack at the next election on 15 June 2013. The seat was won at the 2013 election by Liberal candidate Melissa Price.
caption: Dame Mary Durack, whose family is the division's namesake
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