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Jack Evans (Australian Politician)
John Gordon "Jack" Evans (28 November 1928 – 2 October 2009) was an Australian businessman and politician who served as an Australian Democrats senator for Western Australia from 1983 to June 1985. Early life Evans was born in the Wheatbelt town of Southern Cross, Western Australia He was the eldest of three sons born to Bill Evans, a locomotive fireman, and his wife Rita.Mendez T. ''Democrats founder recruited Don Chipp'' Obituary in ''The West Australian'', p. 69, 7 October 2009 He was educated at North Cottesloe Primary School, Northam High School and Midland Technical School. A fellow student at Northam was the talented athlete Shirley Strickland with whom he was to maintain a lifelong friendship. He obtained a position managing sporting and other recreational activities at the Railway Institute in Perth and, in 1953, married Margaret Michel. They had two children, a daughter and a son. He became an electrical goods retailer in Perth and later the UK before returnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives (Australia), House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. There are a total of 76 senators: 12 are elected from each of the six states and territories of Australia, Australian states regardless of population and 2 from each of the two autonomous internal states and territories of Australia, Australian territories (the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory). Senators are popularly elected under the single transferable vote system of proportional representation. Unlike upper houses in other Westminster system, Westminster-style parliamentary systems, the Senate is vested with significant powers, including the capacity to reject all bills, including budget and appropriation bills, initiated by the government in the House of Representatives, maki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Chipp
Donald Leslie Chipp, AO (21 August 192528 August 2006) was an Australian politician who was the inaugural leader of the Australian Democrats, leading the party from 1977 to 1986. He began his career as a member of the Liberal Party, winning election to the House of Representatives in 1960 and serving as a government minister for a cumulative total of six years. Chipp left the Liberals in 1977 and was soon persuaded to lead a new party, the Democrats who, he famously proclaimed in 1980, would "keep the bastards honest". He was elected to the Senate on 10 December 1977 and led the party at four federal elections. From 1983 it held the sole balance of power in the Senate. Early life Don Chipp was born in Melbourne and educated at Northcote Primary School, Northcote High School and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated in commerce. After playing Australian rules football for Heidelberg, he played briefly in the Victorian Football League with the Fitzroy Football Club (pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 8 February 1986 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and 17 members to the 34-seat Legislative Council. The Labor government, led by Premier Brian Burke, won a second term in office against the Liberal Party, led by Opposition Leader Bill Hassell since 16 February 1984. The election resulted in one of Labor's best state election results after World War II, and featured a united National Party for the first time since the 1977 election. Results Legislative Assembly Notes: : The National Country Party (NCP) and the National Party (NP), which had been two separate parties from 1978 onwards, united in 1985 to form the National Party. Three sitting members who had previously identified as National Country Party stood for the Liberal Party in 1986, with two losing their seats to the Nationals, and the other ( Bert Crane in Moore) retaining his seat. The Nationals also gained Avon from the Labor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear Disarmament Party
The Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) was an Australian political party formed in June 1984. It was founded by medical researcher Michael Denborough as the political arm of the Australian anti-nuclear movement, which had been active since the early 1970s. The NDP primarily attracted left-wing Labor Party voters who were disillusioned with Bob Hawke's pro-nuclear stance. At the 1984 federal election, the NDP polled 7.23 percent of the total Senate vote, electing Jo Vallentine as a senator for Western Australia. However, Vallentine resigned from the party before taking her seat, due to allegations of a takeover by Trotskyists affiliated with the Socialist Workers Party. The NDP's vote collapsed to 1.1 percent at the 1987 election – a double dissolution. Robert Wood was elected as a senator for New South Wales, but after less than a year in office was disqualified by the Court of Disputed Returns and replaced by Irina Dunn. However, Dunn was expelled from the party after les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Vallentine
Josephine Vallentine (born 30 May 1946) is an Australian peace activist and politician, a former senator for Western Australia. She entered the Senate on 1 July 1985 after election as a member of the Nuclear Disarmament Party but sat as an independent and then as a member of the Greens Western Australia from 1 July 1990. She resigned on 31 January 1992. Early life Jo Vallentine grew up in Beverley, in Western Australia's Wheatbelt area. As a young woman she travelled to the United States and was moved to hear and meet Robert F. Kennedy. Political career In an interview in 2001 for a history of the WA peace movement she said: "The Quakers influenced me I suppose from the Vietnam Moratorium days because I was a teacher then, in 1967-69, when the marches were getting going in Perth, and I can remember being a bit nervous because in those days if you were seen in a protest you might have lost your job on Monday when you went to work." At her first election campaign in 1984, medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candidates Of The Australian Federal Election, 1984
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1984 Australian federal election. The election was held on 1 December 1984. Redistributions and seat changes *Due to the expansion of the House, redistributions occurred in all states. **In New South Wales, the National-held seat of Paterson was abolished and the National-held seat of Riverina was renamed Riverina-Darling. Nine new seats were created: the notionally Labor seats of Charlton, Dobell, Fowler, Gilmore, Greenway, Lindsay and Throsby; and the notionally National seats of Page and Parkes. ***The member for Chifley, Russ Gorman (Labor), contested Greenway. ***The member for Cowper, Ian Robinson (National), contested Page. ***The member for Farrer, Wal Fife (Liberal), contested Hume. ***The member for Hunter, Bob Brown (Labor), contested Charlton. ***The member for Macarthur, Colin Hollis (Labor), contested Throsby. ***The member for Macquarie, Ross Free (Labor), contested Lindsay. ***The member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Dissolution
A double dissolution is a procedure permitted under the Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks in the bicameral Parliament of Australia between the House of Representatives (lower house) and the Senate (upper house). A double dissolution is the only circumstance in which the entire Senate can be dissolved. Similar to the United States Congress, but unlike the British Parliament, Australia's two parliamentary houses generally have almost equal legislative power (the Senate may reject outright but cannot amend appropriation (money) bills, which must originate in the House of Representatives). Governments, which are formed in the House of Representatives, can be frustrated by a Senate determined to reject their legislation. If the conditions (called a trigger) are satisfied, the prime minister can advise the governor-general to dissolve both houses of Parliament and call a full election. If, after the election, the legislation that triggered the double dissolution is still n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Australian Federal Election
The 1983 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 5 March 1983. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives and all 64 seats in the Senate were up for election, following a double dissolution. The incumbent Coalition government which had been in power since 1975, led by Malcolm Fraser (Liberal Party) and Doug Anthony ( National Party), was defeated in a landslide by the opposition Labor Party led by Bob Hawke. This election marked the end of the seven year Liberal-National Coalition Fraser Government and the start of the 13 year Hawke-Keating Labor Government. The Coalition would spend its longest ever period in opposition and the Labor party would spend its longest ever period of government at a federal level. The Coalition would not return to government until the 1996 election. Background and issues At the time of the election, the economy suffered from high inflation and high unemployment, alongside increases in industrial disputation and drought across much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Crichton-Browne
Noel Ashley Crichton-Browne (born 2 February 1944 at Wiluna, Western Australia) is a former member of the Australian Senate and political lobbyist. Early life Crichton-Browne was educated at Scotch College, Perth. Before his career in politics, he was a company manager and served as president of the Marble Bar Shire Council. Career After serving as the state president of the WA division of the Liberal Party from 1975 to 1979, Crichton-Browne was elected to the Senate for Western Australia in 1980 (term beginning 1 July 1981), 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990. He served as a Liberal Party senator from 1 July 1981 to 9 September 1995, and thereafter as an Independent after being expelled from the Liberal Party following media publicity of his inappropriate language and behaviour towards journalist Colleen Egan. His expulsion motion was initiated by WA Liberal state president David Honey, who was Crichton-Browne's protege. Crichton-Browne had helped Honey in attaining the party presid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candidates Of The Australian Federal Election, 1980
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1980 Australian federal election. The election was held on 18 October 1980. Redistributions and seat changes *A redistribution of electoral boundaries occurred in Western Australia. **A new seat, the notionally Liberal O'Connor, was created. *Tasmanian Senator Ken Wriedt (Labor) resigned from the Senate to contest Denison. Retiring Members and Senators Labor * Gordon Bryant MP (Wills, Vic) * Clyde Cameron MP ( Hindmarsh, SA) * John FitzPatrick MP (Riverina, NSW) * Bert James MP (Hunter, NSW) * Keith Johnson MP (Burke, Vic) * Vince Martin MP (Banks, NSW) *Senator Reg Bishop (SA) *Senator Jim Cavanagh (SA) *Senator Ron McAuliffe (Qld) *Senator Justin O'Byrne (Tas) *Senator John Wheeldon (WA) Liberal * Bill Graham MP ( North Sydney, NSW) * Tony Staley MP ( Chisholm, Vic) *Senator Gordon Davidson (SA) *Senator Sir Condor Laucke (SA) *Senator Peter Sim (WA) National Country * James Corbett MP ( Maranoa, Qld) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Australian Federal Election
The 1980 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 18 October 1980. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 64 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal–NCP coalition government, led by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, was elected to a third term with a much reduced majority, defeating the opposition Labor Party led by Bill Hayden. This was the last federal election victory for the Coalition until the 1996 election. Future Prime Minister Bob Hawke and future opposition leader and future Deputy Prime Minister Kim Beazley entered parliament at this election. Issues and significance The Fraser Government had lost a degree of popularity within the electorate by 1980. The economy had been performing poorly since the 1973 oil shock. However, Hayden was not seen as having great electoral prospects. Perhaps as evidence of this, then ACTU President Bob Hawke (elected to Parliament in the election as the Member for Wills) and then P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Australian Federal Election
The 1977 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 10 December 1977. All 124 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 64 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal- National Country Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser, in government since 1975, was elected to a second term over the opposition Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam. While the Coalition suffered a five-seat swing, it still had a substantial 48-seat majority in the House. The Liberals retained an outright majority, with 67 seats. Although Fraser thus had no need for the support of the National Country Party, the Coalition was retained. Whitlam became the first and only person to contest four federal elections as Leader of the Opposition. He was unable to recover much of the ground Labor had lost in its severe defeat two years prior, and resigned as leader shortly after the election. Background and issues The government offering tax cuts to voters and ran advertisements with the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
