John FitzPatrick (Australian Federal Politician)
John FitzPatrick (24 April 1915 – 28 July 1997) was an Australian politician. FitzPatrick was born and lived all of his life in Broken Hill, New South Wales and was a boilermaker before running for Parliament of Australia, Parliament. He was elected for the Australian Labor Party as the federal member for Division of Darling, Darling in rural New South Wales from 1969 to 1977 and as the member for Division of Riverina, Riverina from 1977 to 1980. FitzPatrick served his first four terms as the member for Darling, based on Broken Hill. It had been one of the few country seats where Labor consistently did well; indeed, it had been in Labor hands for all but a few months since Federation. As a measure of how safe this seat was, he retained it in 1975 Australian federal election, 1975 with a majority of seven percent even amid Labor's collapse that year. Ahead of the 1977 Australian federal election, 1977 federal election, Darling was abolished, and FitzPatrick opted to follow mo ...
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Division Of Darling
The Division of Darling was an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first federal election. From 1901 until 1922 it was based on Bourke, Cobar, Nyngan, Coonamble and Gilgandra. From 1906, it also included Dubbo. The 1922 redistribution increased the number of voters in some rural electorates and as a result the division of Barrier was abolished with most of its population, including the large mining town of Broken Hill, Wentworth and Balranald, was absorbed by Darling along with Hay from Riverina. Dubbo was transferred to Gwydir in 1922 but returned to Darling in 1934. In 1948, Dubbo, Gilgandra and Coonamble were transferred to the new division of Lawson and Hay and Balranald were transferred to Riverina. In 1955 Coonamble returned to Darling. In 1977 it was abolished with Broken Hill and Wentworth going to Riverina and Bourke, Cobar, Nyngan and C ...
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