Heathcote will become much more of a northern Illawarra seat, if the major parties get their way in the next rounds of electorate boundary changes.
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Submissions from the NSW Liberals, Australian Labor Party and the Greens all suggest that the Liberal-held seat, which is mostly based in Southern Sydney under the current boundaries, should take in some of Wollongong's northern suburbs.
Labor - which would gain voters in the electorate if it was to move more into the Illawarra - has suggested the biggest creep south, with Heathcote to take in all of Austinmer, Thirroul Bulli and parts of Woonona under their submission to the NSW Electoral Commission's boundary review.
The Liberals says Coledale, Austinmer and possibly the eastern parts of Thirroul should transfer from Keira into Heathcote, and the Greens also say Bulli, Thirroul and Coledale should be shifted.
Elsewhere across the region, residents in dozens of suburbs could be facing an electorate change, based on the parties' submissions.
In the Liberals' submission it is proposed that the boundary between the seats of South Coast and Kiama would become the Shoalhaven River.
Having lost the southernmost part of the electorate, Kiama would then take in Shell Cove, which it had - albeit with fewer residents living there - in the 2011 and 2007 elections.
Albion Park Rail, which is currently part of Kiama, would be shifted to Shellharbour in an effort to keep the number of voters in each district similar.
In the central parts of the Illawarra, Wollongong would gain Dombarton (West Dapto), Kembla Grange and Brownsville, the NSW Liberals submission says.
Meantime, Labor has suggest a different electoral shuffle, which would have Kiama taken in central Nowra (currently part of South Coast) and move south so that Albion Park Rail, Calderwood and Marshall Mount were part of Shellharbour.
To offset those gains, Shellharbour would lose Dapto east of the rail line to the Wollongong electorate - including Kanahooka and Brownsville - and Dombarton and Kembla Grange at the northernmost part of the exisiting electorate, Labor's submission says.
Wollongong would lose Mount Kembla and Farmborough Heights to the electorate of Keira, as well as parts of Gwynneville and Fairy Meadow, which would offset the above loss of the northern suburbs in Keira.
The Greens suggested that all Illawarra seats should shift south, starting with the the district of Kiama which - as in Labor's submission - would pick up Nowra.
Shellharbour would take the suburb of Minnamurra, and Wollongong would take in Kembla Grange, Horsley and some parts of Dapto, as well as Mount Kembla and Kembla Heights
This would then mean Keira would take in the suburbs of North Wollongong, Fairy Meadow, Mount Saint Thomas with a possible boundary of Crown Street (which is in the suburb of Wollongong).
Comments on the submissions close on July 15, via the NSW Electoral Commissions website.
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