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Members Of The Western Australian Legislative Council, 1989–1993
This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council between 22 May 1989 and 21 May 1993. This was the first membership of the Council to be elected under the multi-member electorate system established by the ''Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987'' (No.40 of 1987) where members were selected by proportional representation within six regions. Notes : On 10 July 1991, North Metropolitan MLC Reg Davies, elected as a Liberal, left the party and sat as an Independent. : On 3 March 1992, Agricultural Labor MLC Jim Brown resigned. Labor candidate Kim Chance was appointed to the resulting casual vacancy on 18 March 1992. : On 13 January 1993, East Metropolitan Labor MLC Kay Hallahan resigned to contest the seat of Armadale at the 1993 election. Labor candidate Valma Ferguson was elected by a countback on 2 February 1993 to fill the vacancy, but was not sworn in. : On 14 January 1993, South Metropolitan Liberal MLC Phillip Pendal resigned to contest the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australian Legislative Council
The Western Australian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, a state of Australia. It is regarded as a house of review for legislation passed by the Legislative Assembly, the lower house. The two Houses of Parliament sit in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth. Effective on 20 May 2005, for the election of members of the Legislative Council, the State was divided into 6 electoral regions by community of interest —3 metropolitan and 3 rural—each electing 6 members to the Legislative Council.. The 2005 changes continued to maintain the previous malapportionment in favour of rural regions. Legislation was passed in 2021 to abolish these regions and increase the size of the council to 37 seats, all of which will be elected by the state-at-large. The changes will take effect in the 2025 state election. Since 2008, the Legislative Council has had 36 members. Since the 2013 state election, both houses of Parliament have had fix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Davies (politician)
Reginald Elliott Davies (born 21 December 1943) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Bellingen, New South Wales to farrier Edward Davies and Edna Milly Clayworth. He was educated in the New South Wales towns of Belmont and Wauchope and worked as a timber worker from 1959 to 1963. In 1963 he enlisted in the Army, seeing active service with the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (2 Sqn) in Borneo, Vietnam and Malaysia before his retirement in 1985. On 22 April 1967 he married Kaye Dorothy Davies (née Armstrong) (10 December 1942 – 24 April 1995). They had three sons: Jamie Willis (1968), Peter Elliott 1971 (deceased 1971), and Adam Justin (1972). Having moved to Western Australia in 1965, Davies served as a councillor on Stirling City Council from 1986 to 1989, and was active in the Liberal Party as president of the Balga branch from 1986 to 1988. He was vice-president of the Stirling Division and was the regional co-ordinator for North Metropolitan Provin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Kelly
Garry Kenneth Kelly (26 May 1948 – 11 July 2002) was an Australian politician who served as a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1982 to 1993. He stood for parliament eight times in total, winning four elections. Kelly was born in Perth to Rita Phyllis (née Limmer) and Kenneth John Kelly. He attended Manjimup Senior High School, Northam Senior High School, and Melville Senior High School before going on to the Western Australian Institute of Technology (graduating with a physics degree) and the University of Western Australia (graduating with a teaching certificate). Before entering parliament, he worked as a schoolteacher, teaching at Armadale Senior High School and Applecross Senior High School. Kelly first ran for parliament at the age of 22, contesting the Legislative Council's Metropolitan Province (a Liberal Party safe seat) at the 1971 state election. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beryl Jones
Beryl Lillian Jones (née Davies; born 30 July 1932) is a former Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1986 to 1993. Jones was born in Bootle, Lancashire, England, and after leaving school worked as a nurse. She emigrated to Australia in the 1950s, and re-trained as a schoolteacher, subsequently teaching at various high schools in the Perth metropolitan area. Jones was elected to the Town of Armadale council in 1981, and served until the 1986 state election, when she was elected to the Legislative Council's Lower West Province The Lower West Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the Peel and South West region of the state. It was one of several rural seats created following the enactment of the ''Constit .... She became the fifth woman from the Labor Party to serve in the Legislative Council, and the seventh overall. At the 1989 state electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Region Of South West
The South West Region is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council the South West, Peel and part of the Great Southern regions of the state. It was created by the ''Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987'', and became effective on 22 May 1989 with seven members who had been elected at the 1989 state election three months earlier. At the 2008 election, it was reduced to six members. The region includes the cities of Albany, Bunbury and Mandurah. Legislation to abolish the region, along with all other Western Australian Electoral Regions was passed in November 2021, with the 2025 state election to use a single state-wide electorate of 37 members. Geography The Region is made up of several complete Legislative Assembly districts, which change at each distribution. Representation Distribution of seats Members Since its creation, the electorate has had 17 members. Four of these members had previously been members of the Legislat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry House
Barry John House (born 27 November 1949) is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1987 to 2017. He was President of the Legislative Council from 2009 to 2017, and prior to entering politics worked as a schoolteacher. Early life House was born in Busselton, Western Australia, to Molly May (née Jolliffe) and Edward Kenneth House. He attended Busselton Senior High School before going on to further study at the University of Western Australia and Nedlands Teachers College. He was also a talented cricketer, touring South Africa with an Australian schoolboys team and playing at first-grade level in the WACA district competition. After graduating, House worked as a teacher for periods at Eastern Goldfields Senior High School, Kewdale Senior High School, and Churchlands Senior High School and Busselton Senior High School. He returned to Busselton in 1979 to work as a youth education officer, and in May 1987 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Region Of Mining And Pastoral
The Mining and Pastoral Region is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the northern and eastern regions of the state. It was created by the ''Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987'', and became effective on 22 May 1989 with five members who had been elected at the 1989 state election three months earlier. At the 2008 election, it was increased to six members. Geography The Region is made up of several complete Legislative Assembly districts, which change at each distribution. Representation Distribution of seats Members Since its creation, the electorate has had 24 members. All five of the members elected in 1989 had previously been members of the Legislative Council—two from the Lower North Province, two from the North Province and one from the South-East Province The South-East Province was an electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, introduced after the introduction of responsible gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Helm (politician)
Thomas Richard Helm (born 5 April 1941) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Bootle in England and arrived in Australia in 1980. He was a rigger before entering politics. In 1986 he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council as a Labor member for North Province, moving to Mining and Pastoral from 1989. From 1993 to 1997 he was Opposition Whip, and from 1997 to 2000 he was Shadow Minister for Works and Services. However, he resigned from the Labor Party on 27 July 2000 to sit 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 ..., and was defeated at the 2001 election. References 1941 births Living people Independent members of the Parliament of Western Australia Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Australian Lab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Hallahan
Elsie Kay Hallahan (born 4 November 1941) is a former deputy leader of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party. As a member of the Labor Party, she also served as a minister in the Burke, Dowding and Lawrence ministries in Western Australia, and was the first woman ever to sit in both the Western Australian Legislative Assembly and the Western Australian Legislative Council. She joined the Western Australian Police in 1969 before moving into social work in 1981. Her social work career included working at the Western Australian Alcohol and Drug Authority. At the 1983 election, she won one of the South-East Metropolitan Province seats in the Western Australian Legislative Council. Following the 1986 election, she became a minister in the Burke Ministry, with the portfolios of Community Services, the Family, Youth, the Aged and Women's Interests, and served in similar roles in the Dowding Ministry. At the 1989 election, with the transition of the Legi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Halden
Stanley John Halden (born 21 January 1954), at Fremantle, Western Australia, is a former member of the Western Australian Legislative Council. Halden was educated in Western Australia and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Social Work. Prior to entering parliament he was employed as a social worker and a counsellor for the Family Court of Australia. Parliamentary service Halden contested the 1986 Western Australian State election as a candidate for the Labor Party and was elected to Western Australia's Thirty-second Parliament as the Legislative Council Member for North Metropolitan Province from 22 May 1986, in succession to Peter Henry Wells. He was elected to represent the electoral region of South Metropolitan from 22 May 1989. he was re-elected in 1993 and, for a last time in 1996 (for a term commencing 22 May 1997). Ministerial Appointments Halden served as a Parliamentary Secretary assisting the Ministers for Education, and Parliamentary and Elector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Griffiths (politician)
Clive Edward Griffiths (20 November 1928 – 8 November 2020) was an Australian politician. Career He was born in South Perth to mechanical fitter Thomas Edward Griffiths and Dorothy Margaret Beattie. In 1943 he was apprenticed to an electrical fitter at Kalgoorlie, and in 1947 worked for plant engineers at the Public Works Department. He developed his own business from 1953, and although he was a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, he joined the Liberal Party in 1956. He served on South Perth City Council from 1962 to 1966, and in 1965 was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council representing South-East Metropolitan Province. He was elected President of the Council in 1977 and served for twenty years, the longest term of any parliamentary presiding officer in Western Australia. On his retirement from politics in 1997, he was appointed Agent-General for Western Australia, and was also given the Officer of the Order of Australia. Griffiths was also awarde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Foss
Peter Gilbert da Conceição Foss KC (born 24 March 1946 in England) is a former Australian politician, who represented the Liberal Party. Elected to parliament in the 1989 state election, he was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council representing the East Metropolitan Region, he was re-elected in 1993, 1996, and 2001. He retired in 2005. During his time in parliament he served as: * Minister for Health; Consumer Affairs: 16 February 1993 – 10 February 1995 * Minister for the Arts: 16 February 1993 – 22 December 1999 * Minister for Fair Trading: 3 November 1993 – 21 December 1995 * Minister for Water Resources: 10 February 1995 – 21 December 1995 * Minister for the Environment: 10 February 1995 – 9 January 1997 * Attorney General; Minister for Justice: 21 December 1995 – 16 February 2001 He worked as a barrister and solicitor before entering parliament. He was appointed Queen's Counsel while serving as Attorney-General of Western Australia. Anti- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
