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Glyn Jenkins
Owen Glyndwr Jenkins (8 April 1927 – 21 August 2014) was an Australian politician. He was born in Mildura to soldier settler Frederick John Jenkins and Doris Lewis. He was educated at Red Cliffs and then at Condamine and Toowoomba in Queensland qualifying as an accountant.http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/daily-hansard/Assembly_2014/Assembly_Daily_Extract_Tuesday_2_September_2014_from_Book_12.pdf From 1945 to 1946 he was a sergeant in the Australian Imperial Force. After the war he worked as a chartered accountant in Geelong. From 1966 to 1971 he served on Geelong City Council. In 1970 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for South Western, serving until 1976 when he transferred to Geelong; he was a member of the Liberal Party and served as whip from 1973 to 1979, parliamentary secretary to cabinet from 1979 to 1981, and Minister of Water Supply Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, communi ...
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Mildura, Victoria
Mildura is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia. Located on the Victorian side of the Murray River, Mildura had a population of 34,565 in 2021. When nearby Wentworth, Irymple, Nichols Point and Merbein are included, the area had an estimated urban population of 51,903 Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. at June 2018, having grown marginally at an average annual rate of 0.88% year-on-year over the preceding five years. It is the largest settlement in the Sunraysia region. Mildura is a major horticultural centre notable for its grape production, supplying 80% of Victoria's grapes.Mildura
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Geoffrey Thom
Geoffrey Walter Thom (28 April 1910 – 16 March 1973) was an Australian politician. He was born in Geelong West to baker William Nathaniel Walter Hamlet Thom and Lily Potter. He attended local state schools and became an accountant. On 13 April 1935 he married Doris May Cortous; they had three children. He served in World War II, and on his return founded his own firm. A member of the Liberal and Country Party, he served on Geelong West City Council from 1946 to 1958 and was mayor from 1955 to 1957. In 1958 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for South Western Province South Western Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856, initially it had five members. Victoria was a .... He was the government whip in the Council from 1964 to 1967. Thom retired in 1970 and died at Manifold Heights in 1973. References ...
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Australian Army Personnel Of World War II
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People Educated At Toowoomba State High School
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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Council
The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Council: * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1851–1853 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1853–1856 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1856–1858 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1858–1860 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1860–1862 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1862–1864 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1864–1866 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1866–1868 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1868–1870 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1870–1872 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1872–1874 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1874–1876 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1876–1878 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1878–1880 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1880–1882 * Membe ...
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Liberal Party Of Australia Members Of The Parliament Of Victoria
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2014 Deaths
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1927 Births
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David Henshaw (Australian Politician)
David Ernest Henshaw (20 December 1931 – 2 April 2008) was an Australian politician. He was born in Perth to Norman Henshaw, a taxi driver and son of politician Ernest Henshaw, and Grace, ''née'' Ardagh. He attended Wesley College and then the University of Western Australia, where he received a Bachelor of Science (Honours). He then moved to Geelong, where he became chief research scientist of the Textile Industry Division of CSIRO from 1958 to 1982. In 1970 he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for the self-twist wool spinning machine he had developed, and he was joint winner of the Britannica Australia award for science in 1972. He joined the Labor Party in 1972, and was a South Barwon City councillor from 1978 to 1983. Henshaw was an executive member of the Corangamite federal electorate assembly from 1973 to 1982 and was also president and secretary of the Labor Party's Belmont branch. He sat on the party's conservation and environment po ...
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Rod Mackenzie
Roderick Alexander Mackenzie OAM (born 17 October 1933) is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1979 to 1992, representing Geelong Province Geelong Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006, located around Geelong. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council. The a ... for the Labor Party (1979–1987) and then as an independent (1987–1992). A minister in the John Cain II, Cain government and President of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1985 to 1988, he resigned from the Labor Party in December 1987 and unsuccessfully recontested his seat in 1992 as part of the Geelong Community Alliance, a team of local independent candidates. Mackenzie was born in Melbourne, and was educated at Geelong South, Geelong West, Belmont and Forrest State Schools, Geelong High School, and the Gordon Institute of Technology ...
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Stan Gleeson
Stanley Edmond Gleeson (17 May 1910 – 24 May 1999) was an Australian politician. He was born at St Kilda to civil engineer Edmond Francis Gleeson and nurse Bertha Anne Stephenson. He attended Melbourne Grammar School and then studied engineering at the University of Melbourne. He became a rural property manager, and on 3 February 1940 married Phyllis Pullar, with whom he had three children. During World War II he served with the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and on his return became a farmer at Ettrick near Camperdown. He was active in agricultural organisations, serving as president of the Victorian branch of the Australian Primary Producers Union and as federal vice-president. A member of the Liberal Party, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in a by-election for South Western Province South Western Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-came ...
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Minister For Water (Victoria)
The Minister for Water is a minister within the Executive Council of Victoria. Ministers See also * Minister for the Environment and Water (Australia) ** Minister for Water (Western Australia) ** Minister for Water (New South Wales) Reference list {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub Victoria State Government Water Water (chemical formula ) is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as a ... ...
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