Bonbeach

Bonbeach Melbourne, Victoria
Bonbeach
Coordinates	38°03′43″S 145°07′12″E / 38.062°S 145.12°E / -38.062; 145.12Coordinates: 38°03′43″S 145°07′12″E / 38.062°S 145.12°E / -38.062; 145.12
Population	6,416 (2016)
• Density	2,290/km2 (5,930/sq mi)
Postcode(s)	3196
Area	2.8 km2 (1.1 sq mi)
Location	31 km (19 mi) from Melbourne
LGA(s)	City of Kingston
State electorate(s)	Carrum
Federal Division(s)	Isaacs
Suburbs around Bonbeach: Port Phillip Chelsea Chelsea Heights Port Phillip Bonbeach Patterson Lakes Port Phillip Carrum Patterson Lakes

Bonbeach is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Kingston. At the 2016 census, Bonbeach had a population of 6,416.

Bonbeach Post Office opened on 19 November 1922 (closing in 1923, then reopening in 1926 on the opening of the railway station) and finally closing in 1985.

Bonbeach has a railway station on the Frankston line and a string of shops on the Nepean Highway. A long stretch of white sand beach on Port Phillip extends from Chelsea southwards to the Patterson River.

The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League.

Golfers play at the course of the Patterson River Country Club alongside the river. Bonbeach has a school called Bonbeach Primary School.

The Bonbeach Lifesaving Club has been running for 75 years.

The Bonbeach Railway Station was used during the filming of a scene in the Australian television series Kath & Kim.

Since the state election on 29 November 2014, The suburb of Bonbeach has been represented by the Labor MP Sonya Kilkenny in Victoria's Legislative Assembly. The current MLC's for the South Eastern Metropolitan Region include; Gavin Jennings (ALP), Gordon Rich-Phillips (LIB), Adem Somyurek (ALP), Inga Peulich (LIB) and Nina Springle (AG). The suburb of Bonbeach falls within the Legislative Assembly's District of Carrum.

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