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Candidates Of The 1984 New South Wales State Election
This is a list of candidates of the 1984 New South Wales state election. The election was held on 24 March 1984. Retiring Members Labor * Don Day MLA (Clarence) * Roger Degen MLA ( Balmain) * Vince Durick MLA ( Lakemba) * Jack Ferguson MLA (Merrylands) * Pat Flaherty MLA ( Granville) * Lin Gordon MLA ( Murrumbidgee) * Keith O'Connell MLA ( Peats) * Eric Ramsay (Wollongong) * Don Burton MLC * Roy Turner MLC Liberal * David Arblaster MLA (Mosman) * Fred Duncan MLC * Derek Freeman MLC * John Holt MLC * Nathanael Orr MLC * Bill Sandwith MLC National * Jack Boyd MLA (Byron) * Ron Brewer MLA (Goulburn) * Jim Brown MLA (Oxley) * Bill Kennedy MLC Legislative Assembly Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used. Legislative Council Sitting members are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one MLC are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 New South Wales State Election
Elections were held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 24 March 1984. The Labor government led by Neville Wran won a fourth term in office, though with a reduced (if still sizeable) majority and a 7% swing against it. As the two previous elections each saw the sitting Opposition Leader lose the election and failing to be elected to Parliament, the 1984 election saw Nick Greiner becoming the first Opposition Leader to lose an election and retain his seat since Pat Hills in 1974. Independents Ted Mack and John Hatton retained their seats of North Shore and South Coast respectively. They were joined on the cross benches by a third independent and Bruce Duncan. Duncan, a former National Country Party member, withdrew from the party in protest at their change to the National Party name. He ran on an "Independent Country Party" ticket and won his seat of Lismore. At a 1981 referendum, voters had approved an increase in the maximum parliamentary term from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Burton (politician)
Donald Ross Burton AM (3 March 1920 – 17 May 2007) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1976 to 1984. Burton was born in Traralgon in Victoria, where he was educated at state schools. In 1941 he enlisted with the Civilian Military Forces, moving to the AIF in 1943. He left the armed services in 1946, and renewed his membership of the Labor Party (he had first joined in 1940) in 1948. On 30 November 1946, he married Claire Miller at Ashfield; they had one son. In 1950, he was made assistant secretary of the Vehicle Builders' Union, and in 1958 became New South Wales secretary of the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen. He rose to further prominence in 1968 as National Secretary of the Australasian Transport Officers Federation. In 1976, Burton was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Labor member. He served as Government Whip from 1981 to 1984. He left the Counc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Brown (New South Wales Politician)
James Hill Brown (19 March 1918 – 17 January 1999) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Brown was born in Cessnock and educated at Cessnock Public School and Maitland Boys High School. He became an insurance executive. Brown was elected as the Country Party member for Raleigh in 1959 and held it to Raleigh's abolition in 1981, when he became the member for Oxley until his retirement in 1984. In the 1995 Australia Day Honours Brown's "service to the community and to the NSW Parliament" was recognised by the award of Medal of the Order of Australia. Brown died in Coffs Harbour Coffs Harbour is a city on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, north of Sydney, and south of Brisbane. It is one of the largest urban centres on the North Coast, with a population of 78,759 as per 2021 census. The Gumbaynggirr .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, James Members of the New South Wales Leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Goulburn
Goulburn is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Wendy Tuckerman of the Liberal Party. Goulburn is a regional electorate. It encompasses all of Goulburn Mulwaree Council, Yass Valley Council, Upper Lachlan Shire, the eastern part of Hilltops Council and a large part of Wingecarribee Shire. Its population centres include Goulburn and Yass, as well as Marulan, Tallong, Towrang, Bungonia, Lake Bathurst, Tarago, Moss Vale, Bundanoon, Berrima, Sutton Forest, Exeter, Wingello, Penrose, Taralga, Murrumbateman, Boorowa, Crookwell and Gunning. History Goulburn was first established in 1859, partly replacing Southern Boroughs. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it absorbed Monaro and Bega and elected three members simultaneously. Monaro and South Coast were separated from it in 1927 and it reverted to a single-member electorate. It was abolished in 1991, but recreated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Brewer (politician)
Ronald Alfred St Clair Brewer (8 April 1921 – 16 June 2003) was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party member for Goulburn in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1965 to 1984. Born in Watsons Bay, Sydney to farmer Alfred George Brewer and Doris Griffin, he was educated at Gunning, Goulburn and Naremburn, leaving school at the age of 14. He became a rural worker before enlisting in the armed forces in 1938, serving in the 7th Light Horse Regiment of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade until 1940, when he joined the Royal Australian Air Force. He was discharged as medically unfit in 1942, and joined the Second Australian Imperial Force, being stationed in New Guinea as a warrant officer. He was discharged from the armed forces in 1946. Brewer married Dorothy Sorrell on 16 November 1946, with whom he would have six children. As an ex-serviceman he was settled with the Green Hills property near Marulan in 1948, and he became captain of the local Bush Fire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Byron
Byron was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales created in 1913, replacing Rous, and named after Cape Byron. With the introduction of proportional representation in 1920, Byron absorbed Lismore and Clarence and elected three members. With the end of proportional representation in 1927, it was redivided into the single-member electorates of Byron, Lismore and Clarence. In 1988, Byron was replaced by Ballina and Murwillumbah Murwillumbah ( ) is a town in far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire, on the Tweed River. Sitting on the south eastern foothills of the McPherson Range in the Tweed Volcano valley, Murwillumbah is 848 km north-eas .... Members for Byron Election results References Former electoral districts of New South Wales Constituencies established in 1913 Constituencies disestablished in 1988 1913 establishments in Australia 1988 disestablishments in Australia [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Boyd
John Charles (Jack) Boyd (3 December 19213 March 1985) was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1973 until 1984. He was a member of the Country Party and its successors. Boyd was born in Murwillumbah, New South Wales. He was educated at Murwillumbah High School and became a sugarcane grower and agriculturist. He was active in a number of farming groups including the Banana Growers Federation and the New South Wales Council of Canegrowers. In 1940 Boyd joined the 2nd Australian Imperial Forces and saw service at Tobruk, where he was wounded. He was commissioned in 1943. Following his war service he continued to serve in the army reserve and eventually reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Boyd was elected to the New South Wales Parliament for the seat of Byron at a by-election caused be the resignation of Stanley Stephens. He retained the seat until his retirement at the 1984 state election. He did not hold ministeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Sandwith
William John Sandwith (29 October 1922 – 8 July 1999) was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1976 to 1984. Sandwith was born in Sydney, and worked as an engineer and company director before entering politics. He was a director of the New South Wales Permanent Building Society, the New South Wales Group of Terminating Building Societies, the World Permanent Building Society, Home Owners Insurance Pty Ltd, Residential Insurances Pty Ltd, Management and Financial Services Pty Ltd, and St George District Hospital. In 1960 he joined the Liberal Party, and held executive positions at local, state and federal level, serving on the state council from 1966 to 1976. In 1976 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathanael Orr
Nathanael Montgomery Orr (8 October 1917 – 16 April 2016) was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1976 to 1984. Born to John and Margaret Orr in Parkes, he left school at the age of thirteen to work on his father's property during the Great Depression. He qualified as a motor mechanic, and was also accredited as a lay preacher with the Presbyterian and later the Uniting Church. In 1941 he volunteered as a mechanic for the armed forces, serving in north Queensland and the Torres Strait until the end of World War II in 1945. On 1 August 1946 he married Mary Patricia Whitnell, with whom he had four children. Orr joined the Liberal Party on its formation in 1945 and was the president of the Parkes branch from 1946 to 1973. He was president of the Dubbo Electoral Conference (1950–1975), president of the Western Regional Conference (1950–1974) and a member of the State Executive (1950–1974). In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Holt (Australian Politician)
Walter John Holt QC (7 May 1929 – 9 March 2012) was an Australian politician and judge. He was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1972 to 1984, and was Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Upper House from 1976 to 1977. Holt was born in Sydney, the son of Henry Thomas Eulert Holt QC, a judge of the District Court of New South Wales, and Gladys Amelia Withycombe. He was educated at Barker College in Hornsby from 1938 to 1944 and at the University of Sydney, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Law in 1952. In 1948 he joined the Liberal Party. An RAAF reserve, he was a pilot officer with the Sydney University Squadron in 1952, and was called to the bar in 1954. In 1959, he was elected to Woollahra Council; he was deputy mayor in 1963 and served until 1965. He married Eleanor Fell in 1960, with whom he had three children, Phoebe, Henry and Patrick. He was president of the Liberal Party's Edgecliff branch in 1962, and directed the campaig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Freeman (politician)
Derek David Freeman (16 May 1924 – 2 February 2018) was an Australian politician and dentist. He was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1973 to 1981 and from 1981 to 1984. Freeman was born in Sydney. He attended Bellevue Hill Public School and Sydney Boys' High School in 1936-41, before studying dentistry at the University of Sydney, Toronto University and the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in Ontario. He served in the RAAF from 1945 to 1946. On 23 August 1950 he married Phyllis, with whom he had four daughters. He ran a private dental practice, but was a fellow of the International College of Dentists and the Royal Australian College of Dental Surgeons and a president of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Dental Association. In 1960 he joined the Liberal Party, and was Eastern Metropolitan Regional President in 1972. He was chair of the Fluoride Committee of the Australian Dental Association launched in 1958. Given fluoride's prove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Duncan
Frederick Norman Duncan (24 May 1913 – 19 April 1986) was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1972 to 1984. Duncan was born in Balmain. He was educated at Malvern College in Hunters Hill and then at Sydney Church of England Grammar School. After leaving school he studied accountancy at Ultimo Technical College and became a trainee clerk with the Perpetual Trustee Company. He rose within the business world to become managing director of Duncan's Holdings Ltd Group, and founded the Australian Board of Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Group and the Melbourne Australian Development Corporation Group. Duncan joined the Liberal Party on 13 December 1973. Duncan was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legisl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
