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Members Of The Western Australian Legislative Council, 1993–1997
This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council between 22 May 1993 and 21 May 1997: Notes : On 26 April 1994, North Metropolitan Liberal MLC Bob Pike died. Liberal candidate Iain MacLean was elected in the resultant countback on 31 May 1994. : On 28 February 1995, East Metropolitan Labor MLC Tom Butler resigned. Labor candidate Valma Ferguson was elected in the resultant countback on 4 April 1995. : In April 1996, North Metropolitan MLC Sam Piantadosi left the Labor Party and sat as an independent. He resigned on 19 November 1996 to contest the seat of Yokine at the 1996 election. Labor candidate Ed Dermer Edmund Rupert Joseph "Ed" Dermer (born 30 October 1957) in Subiaco, Western Australia is an Australian politician. He is currently the member of the Western Australian Legislative Council representing the North Metropolitan Region. Elected to ..., who had already won the seat effective from May 1997 at the aforementioned election, was ... [...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 P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Lightfoot
Philip Ross Lightfoot (born 11 August 1936) is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1997 to 2008, representing the state of Western Australia. Early life Lightfoot was born in Port Lincoln, South Australia and was educated at first the Adelaide, and then Kalgoorlie School of Mines. In the 1950s, he spent time as a weekend soldier, as a result of national service. Lightfoot joined the Liberal Party of Australia soon afterwards. He worked as a mounted policeman between 1959 and 1962. In 1972, Lightfoot became a pastoralist and grazier, a line of employment he subsequently occupied for twenty years. Politics Western Australian parliament His political career began in 1986, when Lightfoot won the electoral district of Murchison-Eyre, seat of Murchison-Eyre in Western Australia's Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly. It was here that he first caused controversy, when he wrote to Uni ... [...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, 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 Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia People from Bootle English emigrants to Australia 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-WesternAustralia-MP-stub ... [...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] |
Nick Griffiths
Nicholas (Nick) David Griffiths (born 24 December 1951) is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council representing the East Metropolitan Region. Griffiths was born in Barry, Wales. Elected to Parliament in the 1993 state election and subsequently re-elected in the 1996, 2001 and 2005 state elections, he is a member of the Labor Party. The Griffiths family emigrated to Western Australia in 1958. Griffiths has held several ministerial positions since entering parliament including: Shadow Attorney-General (1996–1999), Minister of Racing and Gaming (2001–2005) and Minister of Housing and Works (2003–2005). Following the 2005 election, he was elected as President of the Western Australian Legislative Council The President of the Western Australian Legislative Council, also known as the Presiding Officer of the Council, is the presiding officer of the Western Australian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Parliament of ... [...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] |
Valma Ferguson
Valma Eileen Ferguson, ''née'' Tucker (born 20 November 1941) is a former Australian politician. She was born in Perth to truck driver Robert Henry Tucker and Mavis Irene Higham. After finishing school at Girdlestone High School, she worked for Country Newspapers from 1956 to 1957, for Craft Print from 1957 to 1959, and for the Australasian Society of Engineers from 1959 to 1964. An active member of the Australian Labor Party, she was an electorate officer for Kim Beazley from 1981 to 1990, for Peter Walsh from 1990 to 1993, and for Chris Evans from 1993 to 1995. She was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council in February 1993 in a countback following Kay Hallahan's resignation; she represented East Metropolitan, but was never sworn in as Hallahan's term was due to end in May. She returned to the Council in April 1995, this time assuming the seat vacated by the resignation of Tom Butler. She did not stand for re-election in 1996 and her term concluded in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Evans (politician)
George Maxwell Evans (29 November 1930 – 30 April 2019) was an Australian politician who represented the Liberal Party in the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1986 to 2001. He served as a government minister from 1993 to 1999 under Richard Court. He was a chartered accountant and prominent in Western Australia's business community before entering politics. Evans was also involved with the Scouting Movement in Western Australia during his lifetime. Early life Evans was born in Perth, the second son of Victor Gordon Evans and the former Joyce Marguerite Stephens. He was raised in the western suburbs, attending Thomas Street State School, Subiaco (now known as Rosalie Primary School) from 1936 to 1942. He then went on to attend Scotch College from 1943 to 1948, and was prefect in his final year. He was on the school hockey, athletic, and tennis teams. Evans was a member of the state athletic team from 1951 to 1955, and was the state 220-yards champion twice, also w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
