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Candidates Of The 2005 Western Australian State Election
The 2005 Western Australian state election was held on 26 February 2005. Retiring Members Labor * Clive Brown MLA ( Bassendean) * John Cowdell MLC (South West) * Kevin Leahy MLC ( Mining and Pastoral) Liberal * Mike Board MLA (Murdoch) * John Bradshaw MLA (Murray) * Cheryl Edwardes MLA (Kingsley) * Arthur Marshall MLA ( Dawesville) * Bill McNee MLA (Moore) * Rod Sweetman MLA (Ningaloo) * Peter Foss MLC ( East Metropolitan) * Bill Stretch MLC (South West) * Derrick Tomlinson MLC ( East Metropolitan) National * Ross Ainsworth MLA (Roe) * Monty House MLA (Stirling) Greens * Chrissy Sharp MLC (South West) Independent * Larry Graham MLA (Pilbara) * Phillip Pendal MLA ( South Perth) * Alan Cadby MLC ( North Metropolitan) – elected as Liberal 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 sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 26 February 2005 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council. The Labor government, led by Premier Geoff Gallop, won a second term in office against the Liberal Party, led by Opposition Leader Colin Barnett. Results Legislative Assembly Notes: : The Independent member for Pilbara, Larry Graham, and the Independent member for South Perth, Phillip Pendal, both retired at the 2005 election. The seats returned to the Labor and Liberal parties respectively. Legislative Council Notes: : By the time of the 2005 election, the One Nation Party actually held no seats, as the three members elected in 2001 election had resigned to sit as independents, later joining the New Country Party. None managed to retain their seats. Seats changing hands * Members listed in italics did not contest their seat at this election. * *Figure is Labor vs. Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Sweetman
Rodney Noel Sweetman (born 21 June 1953) is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2005. Sweetman was born in the Perth suburb of Subiaco. He was first elected to state parliament at the 1996 state election winning the seat of Ningaloo and was subsequently re-elected to the same seat at the 2001 state election. Ningaloo was abolished ahead of the 2005 state election with its territory split between Murchison-Eyre and the new seat of North West Coastal. Sweetman chose to contest neither seat, instead unsuccessfully seeking Liberal preselection in more winnable districts elsewhere. He then sought endorsement from the Family First Party but was rejected due to his vote in support of decriminalising abortion. Sweetman has since returned to the Liberal Party, standing unsuccessfully as its candidate for the seat of North West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Pendal
Phillip George Pendal (4 February 1947 – 3 June 2008) was a Liberal and later Independent Western Australian politician, an opponent of abortion rights, and historian. Early life Born in Bunbury, Western Australia, Phillip Pendal was raised and schooled as a Catholic and his strong Catholic principles continued to influence him for the rest of his life, culminating in him being honoured by the Pope John Paul II with the Holy Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (Cross for the Church and the Pontiff) on 14 April 2005. He was a student at Xavier College in East Victoria Park (now Ursula Frayne Catholic College) in his senior school years. Prior to his career in politics, Pendal worked as a print journalist from 1965 until 1975, winning a cadetship with WA Newspapers that saw him writing for Bunbury's ''South Western Times'' from 1966 until 1968, when he was made editor of the ''Manjimup-Warren Times''. From 1969 until 1975 he worked at the ''Daily News'', an evening newspaper in Perth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Pilbara
The Electoral district of Pilbara is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. Pilbara is named for the region of Western Australia in which it is located. It is one of the oldest electorates in Western Australia, with its first member having been elected to the Second Parliament of the Legislative Assembly at the 1894 elections. History Pilbara (historically spelled Pilbarra) was created at the 1893 redistribution in the ''Constitution Act Amendment Act 1893'', through which three new electorates were created in mining and pastoral areas. Its first member was elected at the 1894 election, and while normally a Labor-held seat, it has been held by the Liberals and their predecessors for significant terms. In 1898, its major settlements were Marble Bar, Nullagine, and Bamboo, and it included the southern Pilbarra goldfield. Pilbara's second member, Walter Kingsmill, was a prominent member of Leake's opposition, serving as a Minister in the Leake, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Graham (politician)
Larry Graham (born 24 December 1950) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Brisbane and arrived in Western Australia in 1956. He worked as an electrical fitter and trade union official before entering politics. In 1989 he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Pilbara. He was Opposition Regional Spokesman for Pilbara from 1994 to 1996 and Shadow Minister for Regional Development, North West, and Works and Services from 1996 to 1997. He resigned from the Labor Party in 2000 and was re-elected in 2001 as an independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ .... He retired from politics in 2005. References 1950 births Living people Independent members of the Parliament of Western Australia Members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrissy Sharp
Christine Sharp (18 November 1947 – 18 May 2021) was an Australian politician, who was a Greens member of the Western Australian Legislative Council representing South West Region from 1997 to 2005. Early life Born in London, Sharp completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at the University of Sheffield, and a Master of Arts (Political Science) at the University of Kent. She travelled widely before coming to Western Australia in 1973, later completing a PhD at Murdoch University on politics and ethics. In 1974 and 1975, Sharp was a journalist for the ABC, and during that time was a prominent activist in Western Australia's burgeoning forest movement. In 1977, Sharp moved with her partner from the city to a farm in Balingup, where she started a local business as a tree farmer. Sharp was a member of the Environmental Protection Authority from her appointment in 1989 to 1995. Political career Sharp served on the Donnybrook-Balingup Shire Council. In the 1989 state elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Stirling
Stirling was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1950 to 2008. The district was located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. Geography Stirling was a rural district, surrounding but not including the coastal city of Albany. At its abolition it included the towns of Denmark, Mount Barker, Walpole and Cranbrook. History Stirling was first created for the 1950 state election. It was held at all times by the National Party, or factions thereof, under their various guises. The district was abolished ahead of the 2008 state election as a result of the reduction in rural seats made necessary by the one vote one value In Australia, one vote, one value is a democratic principle, applied in electoral laws governing redistributions of electoral divisions of the House of Representatives. The principle calls for all electoral divisions to have the same number of e ... reforms. Its former territory w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monty House
Montague Grant "Monty" House (born 16 August 1946) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Perth, the son of politician Edward House, and was a farmer at Gnowangerup before entering politics. In 1986 he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly The Western Australian Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Western Australia, an Australian state. The Parliament sits in Parliament House in the Western Australian capital, Perth. The Legisla ... as the National Party member for Katanning-Roe. He became Deputy Leader of the party in 1988, a position he held until 2001. He was Minister for Primary Industry and Fisheries from 1993 to 2001, but he retired from politics in 2005. References 1946 births Living people National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly 21st-century Australian politicians {{Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Roe
Roe is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. It takes in rural areas in the south of the state. Roe was re-created for the 2017 state election, having previously been in existence from 1950 to 1983 and from 1989 to 2008. It had a notional 16.7-point majority for the National Party against the Liberal Party, based on the results of the 2013 state election. Geography In its current incarnation, Roe includes portions of four regions of Western Australia – the South West, the Wheatbelt, the Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance. There are eighteen local government areas that fall into the district: Broomehill-Tambellup, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Katanning, Kent, Kojonup, Kulin, Lake Grace, Narrogin, Ravensthorpe, Wagin, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams and Woodanilling. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Ainsworth
Ross Andrew Ainsworth (born 25 September 1947) is an Australian politician. He was a National Party of Western Australia member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1989 to 2005, representing the electorate of Roe. Ainsworth was born at Hamilton in Victoria, and arrived in Western Australia in 1960. He was a farmer at Salmon Gums before entering politics. Ainsworth was elected to the new Legislative Assembly seat of Roe at the 1989 election, and was re-elected in 1993, 1996 and 2001. He was the National Party spokesperson for Employment, Education and Training and Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs from March 1989 to November 1992, and the Coalition Shadow Minister for Employment and Training from November 1992 to February 1993 after the National Party re-entered its coalition with the Liberal Party. He was not appointed to the ministry upon the election of the Court Coalition government at the 1993 election. Ainsworth was Deputy Chairman of Committees from June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derrick Tomlinson
Derrick Gordon Tomlinson (born 31 January 1941) is a former Australian politician. Tomlinson was born at Subiaco and was a university lecturer before entering politics. Career He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council for East Metropolitan Region The East Metropolitan Region is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the eastern and south-eastern suburbs of Perth. It was created by the ''Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987'', and b ... in 1989 for the Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division), Liberal Party. In 1990 he was appointed Shadow Minister for Justice, moving to Housing in May 1992. In June 1993 he became Deputy Chairman of Committees, serving until early 2001 when he returned to the front bench as Shadow Minister for Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. He retired from politics in 2005. References 1941 births Living people Liberal Party of Australia members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Stretch
William Noel Stretch (born 17 March 1935) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Ballarat and arrived in Western Australia in 1954. He farmed at Mobrup before entering politics. In 1983 he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council as a Liberal member for Lower Central Province; following the reconstitution of the Council in 1989 he was one of the members for South West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa .... From March to December 1986 he served as Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Conservation and Land Management, and from 1989 to 1992 he was Secretary to the Shadow Cabinet. He was Deputy Chairman of Committees from 1993 to 2001. Stretch retired from politics in 2005. References 1935 births Living people Liberal Party of Australia memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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