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Miranda (Locality)
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The Miranda was a barque built at Whitehaven by Lumley Kennedy & Co., launched on the 30th January 1854. She was yellow-metalled, indicating that she was involved in deepwater sailing. Her owners were Bowring & Co. and the vessel was registered at Liverpool in 1859, when the Miranda, Capt. Williams, was noted in Lloyds Register as having sailed for South America. She was still registered at Liverpool in 1873.
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Miranda ... has a shopping strip, running along The Kingsway and Kiora Road. Numerous commercial developments are also located on these roads and surrounding streets. A smaller shopping centre containing a supermarket and various grocery shops is located nearby in Wandella Road.
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Bounded by Georges River in the north and Hacking River in the south, the electorate of Miranda extends from Como and Oyster Bay south through Sutherland and Miranda to Gymea Bay. Booth results in 2003 were evenly balanced in Sutherland and harbourside Sylvania, but heavily favoured Labor at Miranda and Gymea in the electorate's east and south. The redistribution has added 5000 voters at Como and Bonnet Bay west of the Illawarra railway, previously in Heathcote; at the opposite end of its share of the Georges River shore, 2000 voters in the peninsula at Yowie Bay have been transferred to Cronulla. Both areas are relatively strong for the Liberals, but the combined effect has been to cut Labor's margin by 0.5 per cent. The seat was won by the Liberals when it was created at the 1971 election, and has since changed hands three times. Bill Robb won it for Labor in 1978 as part of that year's "Wranslide"; in 1984 it fell to Liberal candidate Ron Phillips; in 1999 Phillips was defeated by Labor's Barry Collier (right), a lawyer and former school teacher. Tim Jamieson of the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Collier's decisive 8 per cent swing was "made possible by local dissatisfaction with housing overdevelopment and Mr Phillips's hand in the downfall of the former Liberal leader, Peter Collins".
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Mr Miranda became a permanent resident of Canada in 1995 and a citizen in 1999. Under a by-law in the Olympic Charter, he could have competed for his adopted country, provided the Cuban Olympic Committee waived the requirement that Mr Miranda was a national of Canada for three years before his participation in the Sydney 2000 Games. However, they did not, effectively denying him the right to compete.
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The Kingsway, Port Hacking Road, The Boulevarde and Kiora Road are the main roads through Miranda. Until 2002, Miranda featured a landmark that was labelled as "the number one black spot in the State for minor accidents."[3] This was the five-ways roundabout which intersected The Boulevard, Kiora Road and Port Hacking Road. An AUD$8m project was completed from 25 February 2002 - 20 November 2002 to remove the roundabout and implement a series of traffic lights at the intersection. Statistics indicate that the number of collisions at the intersection fell from 222 in 2002 to 13 in 2003.[4]
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Given this seat's history, it would be fair to say that if the Liberal Party cannot win Miranda then the Coalition cannot win the election. The Liberal Party needs to win many tougher seats than Miranda, but Miranda is a must win to put pressure on the Labor Party.
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