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Members Of The Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1999–2005
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, H ... between 1999 and 2005. Terms of the Legislative Council did not coincide with Legislative Assembly elections, and members served six year terms, with a number of members facing election each year. A major redistribution prior to the 1999 periodic election reduced the Council from 19 to 15 seats. Elections Members Sources * Parliament of Tasmania (2006)The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856 {{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1999-2005 Members of Tasmanian parliaments by term 21st-century Australian politicians 20th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmanian Legislative Council
The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. Members of the Legislative Council are often referred to as MLCs. The Legislative Council has 15 members elected using preferential voting in 15 single-member electorates. Each electorate has approximately the same number of electors. A review of Legislative Council division boundaries is required every 9 years; the most recent was completed in 2017. Election of members in the Legislative Council are staggered. Elections alternate between three divisions in one year and in two divisions the next year. Elections take place on the first Saturday in May. The term of each MLC is six years. The Tasmanian Legislative Council is a unique parliamentary chamber in Australian politics in that historically it is the only chamber in any stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Aird
Michael Anthony Aird (born 12 April 1949 in Melbourne) is a former Tasmanian politician. He was an ALP member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the Division of Derwent since 1995. From 2006 to 2010, he was the treasurer of Tasmania, one of few legislative councillors in history to have held a ministerial portfolio and the first to serve as Treasurer as previous Treasurers has been from the lower house, the House of Assembly. He took over the role of Treasurer from Paul Lennon after the 2006 state election. He was Government leader in the Legislative Council from 1998 to 2006. Aird first entered parliament in 1979, as a member of the House of Assembly seat of Franklin. He was a member from 1979 until 1986, and then again from 1989 until 1995. During this time, he held many ministerial positions, including Environment, Industrial Relations, Employment, and Education. When Labor member Charles Batt Charles Leo Batt (31 December 1928 – 27 October 2007) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Parkinson (politician)
Douglas John Parkinson (born 5 June 1945 in Hobart) is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for the electoral division of Hobart from 1994 until his retirement in 2012. Parkinson studied at St Virgil's College and the University of Tasmania, obtaining a Bachelor of Economics with Honours in 1971. He worked for the Commonwealth Public Service before studying law. After obtaining an LL.B. in 1981, he established a legal practice in Hobart and lectured part-time at the University of Tasmania. Parkinson was first elected to Hobart in 1994. The division was abolished in 1999. He was elected to the division of Wellington Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by me ... in 2000 and again in 2006, with the division reverting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Martin (Australian Politician)
Terence Lewis "Terry" Martin (born 4 November 1957, Hobart) is a former independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the Electoral division of Elwick. In 2011 he was convicted of creating child pornography and having sex with a 12-year-old girl. Biography He is the son of former Tasmanian MHA Terry Martin Sr. Terence Norman Martin (22 July 1918 – September 2001) was an Australian politician. He was born in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Glenorchy, Tasmania. In 1964 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian B ... He was first elected in May 2004 as a member of the Labor Party but was expelled from the parliamentary Labor party after crossing the floor to vote against a bill concerning a pulp mill. He then sat as an independent. Prior to entering parliament he had been Mayor of Glenorchy since 1990. Even after he was elected to parliament he remained in this role until after local government elections in October 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Loone
John Arthur Loone (25 January 1931 – 3 August 2018) was an Australian politician. He was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1989 to 2001, representing Tamar, Roland Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the ... and finally Rowallan. Loone was born in Deloraine. He was elected to the seat of Tamar in 1989, and held it until 1997, when it was renamed Roland. In 1999, Roland was abolished, and Loone was elected to the new seat of Rowallan, which he held until his retirement in 2001. References Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania 1931 births 2018 deaths Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norma Jamieson
Norma Mary Jamieson (born 23 May 1941, in Ulverstone) is an Australian politician. She was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (upper house) in the electoral division of Mersey An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ... from 2003 until 2009. She worked as a nurse. Norma Jamieson is a widow with two children. Her interests include: bushwalking, gardening, farming, tree farming, light aircraft flying, sports and travel. In recent bills she voted against the state government's same sex relationships bill, but in favour of the sex industry regulation bill. She has been dubbed a 'traditional conservative'. References Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania 1941 births Living people Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 21s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Harriss
Andrew Paul Harriss (11 August 1954 – 1 October 2022) was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from March 2014 to February 2016, representing the electorate of Franklin. Harriss was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1996 to 2014, amassing a lengthy conservative voting record. He resigned from the Legislative Council in 2014, a short time before the conclusion of his Legislative Council term, in order to contest the House of Assembly election as a Liberal. He had previously lost a race as a Liberal candidate at the 1996 Tasmanian election. After the Liberals won the 2014 election, he was appointed Minister for Resources. In that role, he generated criticism for his combative stance against environmentalists. On 17 February 2016, Harriss announced that he was resigning from the Hodgman ministry and from the parliament, effective the next day. Kingborough Council councillor Nic Street Nichol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Hall (politician)
Gregory Raymond Hall (born 19 April 1948) is a former independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the McIntyre. He was also Mayor of the Meander Valley Council from 1997 to 2002. Hall was born in Launceston. He became a member of the Legislative Council at the 2001 Rowallan elections, defeating Russel Anderson (independent; supported by the Liberals). Hall has supported some of state Labor's initiatives in the upper house, such as the Meander dam project and the Betfair proposal. He was one of only two independent members of the Council to support the ''2003 Relationships Act'' which gave same-sex unions and other relationships recognition in TasmaniaHall voted against the governments Sex regulation Act and supported later legislation to ban brothels in Tasmania. He stood for re-election again for the 6 May 2006 Rowallan division election, winning with a primary vote of 81.95% against a sole Tasmanian Greens opponent. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Fletcher (politician)
Anthony William Fletcher (27 October 1934 – 27 August 2020) was an Australian politician. He was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1981 to 2005, representing first Russell and then Murchison. Fletcher, who was born in Hobart, first entered the Council in 1981; although an Independent, he served as Leader of the Liberal Government in the Legislative Council from 1986–89 (during Robin Gray's premiership) and from 1996–98 (Tony Rundle Anthony Maxwell Rundle AO (born 5 March 1939 in Scottsdale, Tasmania) was the Premier of the Australian State of Tasmania from 18 March 1996 to 14 September 1998. He succeeded Ray Groom and was succeeded himself by Jim Bacon. He is a Liberal ...'s premiership). In 1999, the seat of Russell was replaced with Murchison, which Fletcher won. He retired from the Legislative Council in 2005. The ashes of beloved Smithton Magpies CHFA legend Tony Fletcher were scattered in the railway end pack pocket of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Finch
Kerry Finch (born 4 November 1948) is a former member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council or upper house for the electoral division of Rosevears, which mainly comprises the western side of the Tamar River valley from West Launceston up to Greens Beach. He was first elected on 4 May 2002, and retired in 2020. Prior to this he worked in the media including 7HT Hobart, 2MW Murwillumbah, 2 km Kempsey, 7LA Launceston, ABC Radio Tasmania and WIN Television. Kerry had his own media company Kerry Finch Media from 2000 to 2002. Finch was born in Hobart on 4 November 1948 and married Carole in 1979. He has three sons Brian, Adrian and David. His interests include sport, theatre, travelling and Tasmania in general. Finch sees himself as a community representative and has championed the environment of the Tamar Valley and the health of the Tamar River. He was the instigator and chairman of a select committee which recommended that the Tamar and its catchments should be manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Edwards (politician)
Catherine Mary Edwards (born 4 September 1948) is a former Australian politician. She was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1999 to 2001, representing Pembroke. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Edwards received a Diploma of Physiotherapy in 1970 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1983. She was mayor of Clarence from 1989 to 2005. In 1999, she won election to the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Pembroke. She served until 2001, when she was defeated by Labor candidate Allison Ritchie Allison Maree Ritchie (born 28 July 1974 in Hobart) was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (upper house) for Pembroke from 2001 to 2009. Since 2022, Ritchie has served as Deputy Mayor of the City of Clarence. Life before Parliament .... References 1948 births Living people Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania 21st-century Australian politicians Women members of the Tasmanian Legislati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Dean
Ivan Noel Dean (born 21 April 1945) is an Australian politician. He was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 2003 to 2021, representing the electorate of Windermere. He also served as Mayor of Launceston from 2005 to 2007. Dean studied at Levendale State School, New Town High School and Charles Sturt University. He also received training at the Tasmania Police Academy and the Victoria Police Academy. Dean worked as a farmer, as an officer in the Australian Army during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation, and later as a police officer for Victoria Police, New South Wales Police Force and Tasmania Police, where he rose to the rank of Commander before being elected mayor of Launceston, on 31 October 2005. Dean faced criticism that it was 'irresponsible' to hold two positions in two separate government branches (a member of the legislative council and mayor). He also then receives two salaries. To counter these claims, Ivan Dean said "If successfu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |